Meta Tag Properties Not Retrieved from a Query

• Microsoft Index Server version 2.0
• Microsoft Indexing Service

SYMPTOMS

When using meta tags as custom properties, you may not be able to retrieve the value even though you have cached the property and added it to the columns to be retrieved. You can search for the properties and return results, but the value of the property is not returned for display.

CAUSE

This may be the result of caching meta properties as a non-string data type. Index Server 2.0 and and Windows 2000 Indexing Service only support meta tags as string data.

MORE INFORMATION

The MSDN article Using HTML Meta Properties with Microsoft Index Server provides sample code for a filter that allows coercing meta properties to arbitrary types. When this filter is installed, you can store properties in the property cache with any type.

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Version : WINNT:2.0
Platform : winnt
Issue type : kbprb