Microsoft KB Archive/262013

= Content Manager Queries Against the Contents and Properties of a Document Return No Hits =

Article ID: 262013

Article Last Modified on 6/25/2000

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APPLIES TO


 * Microsoft Site Server 3.0 Standard Edition

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This article was previously published under Q262013



SYMPTOMS
If you use a search with a Content Manager site that searches for words in the body of a document and words in properties of the document, you may receive no results for some documents.



CAUSE
Some document types, such as .txt or .pdf files, have no method of internally storing properties. When you upload these documents to the content management site and tag them with properties, the properties are stored in a separate .stub file.

To Microsoft Index Server or Site Server Search, these .stub files are individual files and have no association at all with the .txt or .pdf files that they were created from.

When you do a search against the body of the document, you find a match for the main file (.txt or .pdf). However, if you search for a property, the match returned is the .stub file.

When you search for a word in the body and a word in a property, you find no match for these documents because the body is in one file and the properties are in another, the .stub file.



RESOLUTION
This is by design. You can only store properties internally in Microsoft Office or HTML documents. All other document types must use external .stub files for property storage.



WORKAROUND
Use only Office or HTML format documents if you must search for words in the body and properties of a document.

Keywords: kbprb KB262013

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