Ian
Fri Sep 24 15:43:48 CDT 2004
You should have a look at the GotDotNet opensource project SharePoint
Import Export tools and other utilities. It has a file system export option
to prep the XML files for spin to use.
http://www.wssdemo.com/redir.aspx?url=31
(this url is a shortcut to
http://www.gotdotnet.com/Workspaces/Workspace.aspx?id=6996fb17-2a54-4607-983b-35c7697baa53
which may get wrapped in your news reader and not work)
Regards,
Ian
http://www.wssdemo.com
"Mike Walsh" <englantilainen@hotmail.com> wrote in message
news:uB9GZwjoEHA.2764@TK2MSFTNGP11.phx.gbl...
>> was just wondering if there is a way to import Word >document with the
>> meta
>> data into the portal server so that the index can be created for this
>
> As you specifically talked in your first message about the "SPS search
> capability", that is very definitely *only* a question for the SPS
> newsgroup not this one.
>
> This newsgroup doesn't cover things which are SPS-only; SBS 2003-only;
> Project Server 2003-only and which thus don't apply to all WSS
> implementations.
>
> Mike Walsh, Helsinki, Finland
>
> "John @ X" <JohnX@discussions.microsoft.com> wrote in message
> news:61C7FD40-EE5F-4FDD-A088-7148CC3132F0@microsoft.com...
>> Thanks Mike for your input. I have also posted this query in PORTAL Site.
>> I
>> was just wondering if there is a way to import Word document with the
>> meta
>> data into the portal server so that the index can be created for this
>> document. This actually will be much efficient when we do a search on the
>> document. So if there is any tool which can convert the word document or
>> excel into Portal DB format and get the index generated for them it will
>> be
>> much helpful.
>> ANy thoughts
>> Thanks
>> John
>>
>>
>> "Mike Walsh" wrote:
>>
>>> This is the newsgroup for Windows SharePoint Services.
>>>
>>> Despite you asking about SharePoint Portal Server 2003 I presume you
>>> intend
>>> to add them to a WSS Document Workspace as you posted here and not to
>>> the
>>> Portal Server newsgroup. (.portalserver)
>>>
>>> I don't however understand the problem.
>>>
>>> A document workspace contains document libraries and you can use any of
>>> several methods to copy documents to document libraries such as
>>>
>>> Multiple Upload (if you have Office 2003 on the client)
>>>
>>> Copy Paste to the doc lib in My Network Places
>>>
>>> Copy Paste to the doc lib set up via Net Use as a local drive (also
>>> needs
>>> Office 2003 on the client)
>>>
>>> so what is the problem ?
>>>
>>> Or is it just that this is not a WSS question at all and it should have
>>> gone
>>> to the Portal Server newsgroup?
>>>
>>> Mike Walsh, Helsinki, Finland
>>> WSS FAQ at
http://wss.collutions.com
>>> Please post questions to the newsgroup only.
>>>
>>>
>>> "John @ X" <JohnX@discussions.microsoft.com> wrote in message
>>> news:8D7DC5D3-F78C-4265-BECD-1C827002CCB5@microsoft.com...
>>> > Hi there,
>>> > We have a legacy file system which has Word, Excel, PPT documents and
>>> > we
>>> > want to import them into document workspace of Sharepoint portal
>>> > server.
>>> The
>>> > main purpose of this is to have a powerful search capability from SPS
>>> > and
>>> > this way we can also control the versioning of document. If anyone
>>> > could
>>> help
>>> > me in finding a solution for this it will be really helpful. I tried
>>> spin.exe
>>> > but it works only for a sharepoint port V1.
>>> > Any help would be greatly appreciated.
>>> > Thanks
>>> > John
>>> >
>>>
>>>
>>>
>
>