Question

• TWiki version:
• Web server:
• Server OS:
• Web browser:
• Client OS:

-- TomBoy - 06 Sep 2002

Answer

This is currently not possible natively in TWiki. See related discussions in Codev.SearchAttachmentContent, SearchAttachments, SearchAttachments. See also Plugins.IndexServerSearchForMsIisAddOn

-- PeterThoeny - 07 Sep 2002

Question

Maybe I am oversimplifying, but a Word document contains the text I am looking for as text and TWiki, as I have read, uses fgrep to search for text in documents - why can't I configure TWiki to look at files with a DOC extension in addition to whatever list of file extensions it already searches? I'm not thinking I need a fancy search engine that knows how to look at MS Word files, just plain fgrep. Maybe attachements are compressed when they are uploaded, if so, can I disable the compression of Word files so fgrep can be used?

-- TomBoy - 11 Sep 2002

It is not that easy. Open a Word doc in a text editor and you will see that content is not stored as plain ASCII, so a fgrep would not find anything. TWiki does not compress attachments.

-- PeterThoeny - 13 Sep 2002