RE: Integrating enterprise search engine with Show & Share? http://developer.cisco.com/c/message_boards/find_recent_posts?p_l_id= 2013-05-21T10:14:48Z 2013-05-21T10:14:48Z Cole Shiflett http://developer.cisco.com/c/message_boards/find_message?p_l_id=&messageId=6344975 2012-08-24T17:57:29Z 2012-08-24T17:57:29Z

[quote]Has anyone been successful at connecting the Show & Share database with an enterprise search application. We would really like to crawl S&S as part of our integrated enterprise search interface. We're currently using a FAST-based search application.   I'm a developer, not an engineer, but I know this is where I can find answers to questions like these. If the topic or approach is out of line, please let me know.   Leon[/quote] I have created a solution that allows you to integrate the content of SnS with SharePoint.  I created a timer job in SP that consumes the SnS API and executes a query using my desired criteria.  The XML response that is returned is then parsed and the links are posted to a SharePoint list.  I then create a custom search scope pointing to that list and execute a full crawl.    To make it even more tight, I also adjusted the DispForm.aspx on the SharePoint list so that it has the video embedded in the page using the JavaScript function that is in the SnS product documentation.  Just capture the CCSID value when consuming the SnS API and write it to a separate SharePoint list column....then you can plug it into the JavaScript function on the page.   I have not tried to crawl the actual SnS database, I would much rather just use the vendor provided APIs then try to hack something on the backend.   I may blog about my solution and provide the source code if I have time.  If I do, I'll update this post to include the URL.

Cole Shiflett 2012-08-24T17:57:29Z