Hello All,

I see documentation and job settings mention about SharePoint site, subsite, library and file.

I have a List named IKGeneralFAQ on a SP2010 instance.
(http://iknowtest/Lists/IKGeneralFAQ/AllItems.aspx)

I tried manually setting Path Rules using 'Add Text' button, but it does not working.

/IKGeneralFAQ/* file        include
/Lists/IKGeneralFAQ library include
/Lists/IKGeneralFAQ/* library include
/IKGeneralFAQ library include
/Lists/IKGeneralFAQ/* file        include

Can I use MCF to crawl SharePoint Lists?

Thanks,
Ahmet

Hi Ahmet,

At the moment the only entity the SharePoint connector knows how to
index are documents in Libraries.  If you can provide a description of
what kind of SharePoint content you want to index out of a SharePoint
List, and how Lists relate to Sites and Libraries, then we can discuss
adding that ability.

Karl
On Thu, Aug 2, 2012 at 9:00 AM, Ahmet Arslan <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> Hello All,
>
> I see documentation and job settings mention about SharePoint site, subsite, library and file.
>
> I have a List named IKGeneralFAQ on a SP2010 instance.
> (http://iknowtest/Lists/IKGeneralFAQ/AllItems.aspx)
>
> I tried manually setting Path Rules using 'Add Text' button, but it does not working.
>
> /IKGeneralFAQ/*         file            include
> /Lists/IKGeneralFAQ     library         include
> /Lists/IKGeneralFAQ/*   library         include
> /IKGeneralFAQ           library         include
> /Lists/IKGeneralFAQ/*   file            include
>
> Can I use MCF to crawl SharePoint Lists?
>
> Thanks,
> Ahmet

Hi Karl,

I was reading this :

http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/dd490727%28v=office.12%29.aspx

It seems that Lists and Libraries are similar to each other.

My target List contains following (ID, IKFAQPageID, IKFAQPage, Title, IKFAQAnswer) attributes. I want to index those values. It looks like an excel spread sheet.

Ahmet

> At the moment the only entity the SharePoint connector knows
> how to
> index are documents in Libraries.  If you can provide a
> description of
> what kind of SharePoint content you want to index out of a
> SharePoint
> List, and how Lists relate to Sites and Libraries, then we
> can discuss
> adding that ability.

Hi Ahmet,

Is there a document associated with each row in the list?  Or is it
only metadata?

Karl

On Thu, Aug 2, 2012 at 9:30 AM, Ahmet Arslan <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> Hi Karl,
>
> I was reading this :
>
> http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/dd490727%28v=office.12%29.aspx
>
> It seems that Lists and Libraries are similar to each other.
>
> My target List contains following (ID, IKFAQPageID, IKFAQPage, Title, IKFAQAnswer) attributes. I want to index those values. It looks like an excel spread sheet.
>
> Ahmet
>
>> At the moment the only entity the SharePoint connector knows
>> how to
>> index are documents in Libraries.  If you can provide a
>> description of
>> what kind of SharePoint content you want to index out of a
>> SharePoint
>> List, and how Lists relate to Sites and Libraries, then we
>> can discuss
>> adding that ability.
>

I've created a ticket (CONNECTORS-497) that covers adding list support
to the SharePoint connector.  But I'm still not clear what we'd
include instead of a document.  It seems that the choices are:

- A blank document
- Use the contents of a specific field as the document contents

Can you update the ticket to describe what you'd like to see for this?
Karl

On Thu, Aug 2, 2012 at 9:33 AM, Karl Wright <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> Hi Ahmet,
>
> Is there a document associated with each row in the list?  Or is it
> only metadata?
>
> Karl
>
> On Thu, Aug 2, 2012 at 9:30 AM, Ahmet Arslan <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>> Hi Karl,
>>
>> I was reading this :
>>
>> http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/dd490727%28v=office.12%29.aspx
>>
>> It seems that Lists and Libraries are similar to each other.
>>
>> My target List contains following (ID, IKFAQPageID, IKFAQPage, Title, IKFAQAnswer) attributes. I want to index those values. It looks like an excel spread sheet.
>>
>> Ahmet
>>
>>> At the moment the only entity the SharePoint connector knows
>>> how to
>>> index are documents in Libraries.  If you can provide a
>>> description of
>>> what kind of SharePoint content you want to index out of a
>>> SharePoint
>>> List, and how Lists relate to Sites and Libraries, then we
>>> can discuss
>>> adding that ability.
>>

> Is there a document associated with each row in the
> list?  Or is it
> only metadata?

Only metadata columns. There is no file.

I've committed what I think will implement Lists fully into
https://svn.apache.org/repos/asf/manifoldcf/branches/CONNECTORS-497.
Please let me know what works and what doesn't.

Thanks!
Karl

On Thu, Aug 2, 2012 at 9:44 AM, Ahmet Arslan <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>> Is there a document associated with each row in the
>> list?  Or is it
>> only metadata?
>
> Only metadata columns. There is no file.