Summary
In this chapter we discussed a few of the options available to MCMS developers for adding search functionality to their sites. We proceeded to take an in-depth look at the searching features built into SharePoint Portal Server and how they can be leveraged as a back-end search workhorse for an MCMS site. Before we could start adding the search functionality, we had to make a few changes to our site and templates, as well as build an index using SharePoint to crawl our site.
Once our site was configured for index crawls and SharePoint was configured to crawl our site and build an index, we explored in detail two options for adding search functionality to the Tropical Green site using the SharePoint crawler:
First we implemented search using the MCMS Connector for SharePoint Technologies, an out-of-the-box solution.
Then, we built our own solution using the SharePoint Query Service Web Service and custom full text T-SQL queries to provide search filters and customized results.
