quick website design question...

[orange71]

Just a quick question - I have designed a very basic intranet using Front Page, mostly pdf/.doc files in the background with some htm navigation pages that link to them. What I'd like to do is be able for any user to be able to search on text in the pdf files or their titles from a search box on the home page so they can quickly find the document they want (there will be about 200 documents) - is this possible? Given this will just be hosted on a shared networked PC without anything fancy like frontpage extensions etc.

 

[zigzag]

*I think* that if the users have read access to the shared drive on the network PC, they should just be able to use the standard windows file search, specify the share drive letter and search all *.pdf files for the text required?

If you happen to have a Windows 2003 server kicking about, then Windows Sharepoint Services plus the Adobe iFilter would be a decent way of doing it (and they're both free).

 

[heathy]

Ed, you tried Jez :?: Thats if you can get him away from his sea a wash with bongo's

 

[orange71]

yes they will be able to do the normal search thing on the shared drive - but I can't really turn that into a single button

 

[orange71]

Ed, you tried Jez :?: Thats if you can get him away from his sea a wash with bongo's

will try him in a bit