Custom Properties
Ontolica Video Tutorial 6: Working with Custom Properties
This video tutorial introduces custom properties, which are types of metadata associated with each page or document in the search database. It shown how to add new types of properties to SharePoint, assign values to them and then use them in Ontolica search forms, result lists, sorting controls and drill-down controls.
- Working with Custom Properties, full tutorial (16:09)
This is the full tutorial. If you view this tutorial, then you do not need to look at the other videos listed below.
- Working with Custom Properties Part 1: Adding a new property to SharePoint (6:46)
This video shows how to add a new column of data to a SharePoint document library and then how to configure the MOSS search engine to index and map that column to managed properties in the search database.
- Working with Custom Properties Part 2: Using custom properties in search forms and result lists (4:56)
This video shows how to use managed properties from the search database in Ontolica search forms and result lists.
- Working with Custom Properties Part 3: Using custom properties for sorting and drill-down controls (4:21)
This video shows how to use managed properties from the search database as criteria for sorting controls and/or drill-down controls in Ontolica result lists.