Re: Fwd: RE: Web pages from a database

If you have IIS as your server software you can use Index Server (part of 
IIS) as an intranet search engine. It indexes/searches HTML pages, MS Word 
and Excel documents, and with a free IFILTER (basically an extension for 
Index Server) from Adobe, PDF files. IFILTERS might also be available for 
other type of documents. We use it on our intranet.


At 02:12 AM 01/26/2002 +0000, you wrote:



>>From: "Barlow, Maureen (REI)" <maureen.barlow(at)reed-elsevier.com>
>>To: "'hwg-techniques(at)hwg.org'" <hwg-techniques(at)hwg.org>
>>Subject: RE: Web pages from a database
>>Date: Thu, 24 Jan 2002 11:16:35 -0500
>>
>>Here I go again with a related question!  Similar to Andrew, I am a beginner
>>when it comes to databases.  One of my projects is to build a knowledge base
>>on our company intranet, for documents relating to a global company-wide
>>project.  I am beginner-to-intermediate with ASP, but I do not know VB at
>>all (save for some VBScript, which I know is related, but different).
>>
>>I was thinking I could use ASP and XML (also a beginner at this) to create
>>the searchable knowledge base.  Hank, you mention below that Access is not
>>what you'd use.  I don't know what I'd use, so what is your suggestion?  I
>>was initially thinking of Excel as a database of the documents.
>>
>>Any thoughts would be appreciated.
>>
>>TIA,
>>
>>Maureen
>>
>>
>>-----Original Message-----
>>From: Hank Marquardt [mailto:hmarq(at)yerpso.net]
>>Sent: Thursday, January 24, 2002 9:54 AM
>>To: Andrew Armstrong
>>Cc: hwg-techniques(at)hwg.org
>>Subject: Re: Web pages from a database
>>
>>
>>Hi Andrew, you really want something like PHP or ASP here -- you'd have
>>*one* page that you'd pass something like a museumID ... that page would
>>have database hooks in it to get that particular record and show the page.
>>
>>Access is definitely not what I'd use, but you said you have no choice in
>>that matter -- no VB needed -- unless I've completely misread the request,
>>you are posting on the Web, correct?
>>
>>On Thu, Jan 24, 2002 at 11:54:57AM -0000, Andrew Armstrong wrote:
>> > I have been asked to tender for a job where some pages are to be
>> > generated from information held in an Access database. I don't have
>> > any choice about the database - it will simply hold information about
>> > museums - opening times, address, contact details and so on.
>> >
>> > The plan is that every time that the database is updated, someone can
>> > carry out a siomple procedure to generate new copies of the
>> > information pages for the specific museums.
>> >
>> > Has anyone any ideas? I have limited database experience, and am just
>> > starting to learn Visual Basic. My guess is that I need to make a
>> > template, then to write a Visual Basic program to query the database
>> > and place information in the template at the appropriate point.  In
>> > order to do this I would clearly have to learn some more stuff, so if
>> > it isn't the best approach I don't want to waste too much time.
>> >
>> > If I do need to learn more about databases and Visual Basic, I would
>> > appreciate any pointers as to what to concentrate on first so I don't
>> > spend a long time floundering around.
>> >
>> > Andy
>
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