[PreSales] Using multiple catalogs

[fbrem]

Hello,

[situation]
we use the software "help&manual" to generate an html-help which is online on our website, with your integrated custom zoom-search engine. We are really impressed about the quality of the zoom search...

we also have a phpBB installation online, with a huge FAQ.

at last, there is also a lot of content on our static html-website.

[goal]
we would like to have an over-all search engine to give our users a better support.

is it possible to generate multiple catalogs and query them one after another (ASP.NET) to present the result seperatly in one ajax-styled page:

---searchresultpage-----
[result set 1] --> paging enabled --> http://manual.ourcompany.com
[result set 2] --> paging enabled --> http://forum.ourcompany.com
[result set 3] --> paging enabled --> http://www.ourcompany.com
-------endpage---------

Or do you have another recommendation?
Thank you in advance
Felix

[Ray]

You can post-process the results from the Zoom search script through many number of ways. The CGI and ASP.NET Server Control can both provide XML output if you wish to post-process them and dynamically control what is displayed via AJAX. It can be tricky however, aggregating the 3 different sets of search results in a meaningful manner, but it would depend on your requirements.

A simpler approach would be to have a single index with 3 start points (you do this by clicking on the "More" button next to the "Start spider URL" on the "Start options" panel). So you would index all 3 domains in 1 index. You would also set up Categories so that a dropdown box would be available at search time, for you to search within one particular domain, or all 3.

More information on Categories in chapter 2.5 of the Users Guide. Spider start points ("Advanced spider URL options") can be found in chapter 2.1.3.

[David]

See also this example search page, showing one way of using categories to allow searching of just forums.

[fbrem]

Thank you for the infos... the ASP.Net Server control seems to be exactly what i need...