Microsoft Index Server
Release Notes

Changes to the Documentation
Supplementary Release Notes

Thank you for installing Microsoft® Index Server version 2.0 Beta 1 for Microsoft® Internet Information Server version 4.0 running on Microsoft® Windows NT® Server. This file supplements information contained in the main documentation.

Changes to the Documentation

This section details changes and additions to the existing documentation.

Hit Highlighting

In this release of Index Server, the Common Gateway Interface (CGI) application Webhits.exe has become the Internet Server API (ISAPI) application Webhits.dll. If you have any .htx files that incorporate hit highlighting, you will need to modify them. If you create new .htx files that incoporate hit highlighting, you need to follow the new syntax shown here for version 2.0. You should notice no other differences.

Example

The following example shows how syntax for hit highlighting was written in previous versions of Index Server and contrasts it to the syntax for version 2.0. The differing sections of code are highlighted in bold.

Index Server Versions 1.1 and Earlier

<:a href="http://<:%server_name%>:/scripts/srchadm/webhits.exe<:%escapeURL
vpath%>:?CiRestriction=<:%escapeURL
CiRestriction%>:&CiTemplateFile=/scripts/srchadm/hquery.htw&CiQueryFile=/scripts/srchadm/hquery.idq&
CiBeginHilite=<:%escapeURL <:font color="#FF0000">:<:em>:%>:&CiEndHilite=<:%escapeURL
<:/em>:<:/font>:%>:&CiUserParam3=<:%EscapeURL 
CiBookMark%>:&CiUserParam4=<:%EscapeURL DocTitle%>:">:Show Highlights<:/a>:

Index Server Version 2.0

<:a href="http://<:%server_name%>:/scripts/srchadm/webhits.dll?CiWebHitsFile=<:%escapeURL 
vpath%>:&CiRestriction=<:%escapeURL
CiRestriction%>:&CiTemplateFile=/scripts/srchadm/hquery.htw&CiQueryFile=/scripts/srchadm/hquery.idq&
CiBeginHilite=<:%escapeURL <:font color="#FF0000">:<:em>:%>:&CiEndHilite=<:%escapeURL 
<:/em>:<:/font>:%>:&CiUserParam3=<:%EscapeURL 
CiBookMark%>:&CiUserParam4=<:%EscapeURL DocTitle%>:">:Show Highlights<:/a>:

Supplementary Release Notes

For supplementary release notes that apply to Index Server, see the Internet Information Server Release Notes.

SQL Extensions to Index Server Catalog Limitation

The SQL extensions to Index Server are limited in this beta release to the catalog named "web". There is no way to change the catalog used for these queries. The "web" catalog is created automatically when Index Server is installed.