Sunday, April 29, 2007
EDN Search: IObjectClassExtension....
Posted on Sunday, April 29, 2007 8:15:25 PM (Mountain Daylight Time, UTC-06:00)  Comments [2] | 
Categories: ESRI
Recently ESRI has been taking surveys as to what they should be focusing on @ support.esri.com. In their "early results" posting, they are apparenly taking notice of the limited search capabilities on the site. Just wanted to add that the search on EDN is also in need of some love.

In prepping another post, I went to the "Current Library" page, and typed in "IObjectClassExtension" - which returned a whole mess of things which make some reference to IObjectClassExtension, and it actually hilights the term in BOLD, but it did not have a link to the actual page that describes the interface.


I changed the search setup a little, and got all 32 references back on the same page - the interface was at #24. I'm not sure how much more explicit I can be with this. Please please please work on making this search better!

Incidentally, Google nails it (ok, it's the 9.1 Java doc, but at least it's the interface!). Instead of trying to tweak whatever search engine they have, maybe they could work with Google to ensure that the site is accurately and regularly indexed, and ensure the site:edn.esri.com <search> works (currently this does not return any results)
Tuesday, May 01, 2007 12:44:53 PM (Mountain Daylight Time, UTC-06:00)
The best workaround I've found for this is to add on a descriptor like "Interface" or "CoClass" to the search term. It should at least get your target onto the first page.

Examples:
IObjectClassExtension Interface
CadLayer CoClass

--Michael
Michael Grossman
Tuesday, May 01, 2007 11:27:56 PM (Mountain Daylight Time, UTC-06:00)
Instead of site:edn.esri.com, use site:edndoc.esri.com on Google searches. This returns results.

--Philip
Philip H
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