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Chapter 22: Managing External Content in Microsoft Office SharePoint Portal Server 2003 615
2. Perform one of the following steps to confirm or specify updates and rules for
Web content as a content source:
■ Click OK.
■ Click Advanced. Specify rules to include or exclude content, specify
scheduled updates, or start an update on the content_source_type content
source page.
Managing Rules for Including or Excluding Content
You can create rules that include or exclude content from the content index. These
rules are called site restrictions and site path rules. A site restriction rule is the main
rule for a site. You can show or hide the other rules for a site by clicking the plus
sign (+) or minus sign (-) next to the site restriction. The other rules for a site are
called site path rules. The site restriction defines the overall rules for a site, and the
site path rules are rules for specific parts of the site. The Site Path rules are nested
inside the Site Restrictions rule.
Site Path Rules are evaluated in the order they appear in the list. If there is a
site rule match, all the path rules are evaluated and applied in the order they appear.
You can use site restrictions and site path rules to accomplish the following
tasks:
■ Override the settings for the default content access account when crawling a
specific site or path
■ Specify the granularity for crawling lists
■ Allow crawling of sites where addresses pass parameters—for example, the
address includes a question mark (?)
■ Allow sites to be traversed for links without content being added to the index
■ Exclude an area from the index completely
Including or excluding content is a best practice for tuning SharePoint Portal
Server search capabilities, and it’s a good tool to offer the best possible search
results that meet your business requirements.
Rules can use general expressions and wild cards, as shown in the following
examples:
■ “http://woodgrovebank/folder*” applies to all Web resources that have a URL
that starts with “http://woodgrovebank/folder”
■ “http://server?web*” applies to resources such as “http://serveraweb2/file.htm”
and “http://serverbweb3/file.htm”
■ “*/*.doc” applies to every Microsoft Office Word document encountered