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bhatia.a...@gmail.com (Ankur Bhatia) — Fri, 01 Jan 2010 12:32:22 UT

Hi
We are using the GSA 6.0.
In our app, we are directly making a search request to GSA via GSA
Search protocol. The question I had was,
How does GSA know about the user clicks so that it can generate useful
search reports. Because in our case, we render the search results and
directly navigate to the result. GSA wont know about which result the

Regarding Formating of GSA result page

balm...@gmail.com (Shivana) — Fri, 01 Jan 2010 11:50:21 UT

I want to print the result in my customized tabular form,which has the
details as shown below.
eg :
Id Name Address CompanyName
1 XYZ Villa ABC123
2 PQR AAA PQR222
After clicking on each row ,it should redirect to the corresponding
page
Can I do this using Google search appliance?

Re: MS SQL Database crawl - right number of rows, but no results returned

jeff.mark...@capella.edu (JMarkham) — Thu, 31 Dec 2009 16:36:28 UT

In reality, the metadata and URL feed (which we use here extensively)
provides a feed to the crawler, with extra metadata provided by you.
The crawler then crawls the URL that your feed provided and merges the
indexed data with the database data to produce one record. To see or
interact with the metadata from the database, though, you have to use

Re: MS SQL Database crawl - right number of rows, but no results returned

webmas...@wisbar.org (SBW) — Thu, 31 Dec 2009 16:06:16 UT

Thanks for your response Jeff.
Ideally we want users to be able to search a sub-section of products.
Since our URLs are of the same format (/xxx?yyyy&zzz, with x being the
same across all, y being variable and non-unique, and z being the
product id), the only way to determine a sub-section is by checking a

remove %20 AND %3B from filename titles

sgeno...@gmail.com (Steve) — Thu, 31 Dec 2009 15:46:26 UT

I've used successfully used the following code (thanks Bernardo
Herrera!) to remove spaces from the filenames I display. When I add
another call to replace_string to also remove semicolons from the
title, it repeats fragments of the title 3 times.
How do I modify substring-after-last to replace multiple characters?

Re: MS SQL Database crawl - right number of rows, but no results returned

jeff.mark...@capella.edu (JMarkham) — Wed, 30 Dec 2009 21:56:41 UT

Hi James,
So, your fear I believe is correct. If you're already Web crawling
the same content that you're also feeding in via Database feed, then
you may create two document entries.
Is there a reason that you're feeding content by both mechanisms?
Depending what you're doing or need, there may be better solutions.

Google mini crawler issue

saurabhgosw...@hotmail.com (saurabh) — Wed, 30 Dec 2009 21:25:21 UT

We recently purchased google mini and will be using it tos earch
content on our intranet website. Our intrnanet is secure website
protected by ichain. If a user logs in to it using browser he is
brought on login page served by ichain server. Once he has keyed in
user id and password he is logged in and lands on home page.

Re: MS SQL Database crawl - right number of rows, but no results returned

webmas...@wisbar.org (SBW) — Wed, 30 Dec 2009 19:34:35 UT

In case someone is in the same boat in the future ...
The issue appears to be that I neglected to add the resulting page
(designed in the Base URL field) to "Include Content Matching the
Following Patterns" on the collection itself.
I'm still not sure what the purpose (if any) there is to adding
^googledb://<...> in there as well, per the docs, but ...

Re: Can GSA crawl XML sitemaps?

jeff.mark...@capella.edu (JMarkham) — Wed, 30 Dec 2009 15:02:36 UT

Greetings,
The GSA cannot crawl the content of XML directly, it can only index
XML documents themselves. Your two options are an HTML jump page, or
turn your XML sitemap into a Feed. Information on XML feeds is here:
[link]

how did you decide which mini to buy?

marie.ra...@wwu.edu (mtraney) — Tue, 29 Dec 2009 19:24:59 UT

Our university has multiple servers and, frankly, tons of junk stored
on the web servers that is not actually part of the site. How did you
all that bought the mini figure out how many documents are really
being crawled? And I assume that includes all the linked html pages as
well as the other types of text documents (pdf, doc etc) but NOT

Re: Using Admin API over HTTPS

phillips.ja...@principal.com (Jason) — Tue, 29 Dec 2009 16:48:30 UT

Nevermind, I figured it out. There is a constructor for the GsaClient
that has an additional field for specifying a different protocol.
Using that and loading my keystore got it to work perfectly.

Re: can google host the mini, or can someone recommend a US host

jeff.mark...@capella.edu (JMarkham) — Tue, 29 Dec 2009 14:15:36 UT

You can also try Google's hosting service Site Search.
[link]
Jeff

Re: Automatic Filtering

mwarti...@gmail.com (Manoj Wartikar) — Tue, 29 Dec 2009 03:57:56 UT

Glenn,
You would also have to modify the xslt frontend to carry this
parameter on to the next page. AFAIK the filter parameter is not
carried forward to the next query.
Note: the parameter however gets carried over if you click "Next"
M

Using Admin API over HTTPS

phillips.ja...@principal.com (Jason) — Mon, 28 Dec 2009 22:08:24 UT

Is it possible to use the Administrative API over HTTPS? I've build a
sample client using the examples in the documents going to 8443, but
am getting connection errors. I can't find anything in the
documentation on this, but all their examples are for port 8000. My
organization doesn't allow traffic to the appliances that isn't

MS SQL Database crawl - right number of rows, but no results returned

webmas...@wisbar.org (SBW) — Mon, 28 Dec 2009 19:26:24 UT

We're just starting to use our GSA's database crawling functionality,
but despite the documentation and a handful of posts here, I can't
seem to get things working correctly.
I've setup a MS SQL-based data source in Crawl and Index > Databases.
Data display/usage: Meta data with Document ID field.
If I run a sync, I get what I believe to be a good sign - no errors