Re: [cobalt-users] Cube - web search function

[Kris Dahl <kris@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

on 11/24/99 8:59 AM, Marty Pigg at martyp@xxxxxxx wrote:

> I will try and clarify.
> 
>> From a browser, at the "Main Menu" of the Cube (10.x.x.x/cobalt), the fourth
> button from the top is Search. When you click on this Search button, it
> brings up a box that allows you to perform a search. Above the box, the
> following text appears:
> 
> "The search index is updated nightly. The search tool can rapidly search
> through all html and text files on the Cobalt server"
> 
> In the box itself, you type in the text you are searching for, and then
> choose whether you want to search in a "Public" area only, or if you want to
> search both Public and Private.
> 
> So for example, I can search on a user name - Joe Blow lets say - and it
> will search some part of the disk (this is one issue I am not clear on) and
> return in this case, a link to his home page.
> 
> I cannot figure out why the page that was uploaded into a users home
> directory does not work against a search. I search on test that is included
> on this page, and I get no hits. The difference between this page and the
> other users home dirs is that it was the only page that was manually
> created, and then FTP'd into the home dir. All other user directories/home
> pages were created when the user account was created.
> 
> Does that help?

You know what?  I had no idea that feature exists!  There doesn't seem to be
much info in the knowledge base either.  I will try to see if I run into the
same problem and let you know.

-k