Hi all, hope this is the right list... 

I am a librarian.

Has anyone successfully implemented indexing by the values held in their 
own custom-named metadata tags for HTML documents for SiteServer 3.0?
  
We are using SiteServer 3.0 for our 500,000 file intranet. On 
our "Advanced" search screen we have optional search fields mapped to the 
following standard HTML metadata tags:

<META NAME="Keywords" CONTENT="...">
<META NAME="Author" CONTENT="...">
<META NAME="InformationOwner CONTENT="...">

I want to improve this by enabling users to search on the documentType 
metadata too, so they can distinguish between adverts and reports etc... 
we follow UK government metadata standards, ie.

<META NAME="DC.TYPE" CONTENT="advertisement">
<META NAME="DC.TYPE" CONTENT="report">

but our outsourced service provider tells me that this can't be done (they 
also said they didn't have a manual for the software, which set alarm 
bells ringing!). I have since found a copy of the manual for myself and I 
don't believe them, because I think you can make up whatever names you 
like for metadata tags and tell the software that they are special and 
should be indexed and readable. The manual states: 

"You can create new columns by defining an HTML META tag in your documents:
<META name="tagname" contents="tag contents here">
Using the default catalog schema, any unknown HTML META tag is included in 
the catalog as indexable, but not retrievable. If you want to retrieve a 
column created from a META tag, or if you want the column to be in numeric 
or date format, you must add the new column to the schema."

The only possible problem I can see is that there is a full-stop 
("period") character in the name of the meta-tag. 

I'd be grateful if you can help!