This one happened today… We discovered that for the pdf files the search results pointed to the dispform.aspx instead of pointing to the file itself.
The procedure we used to fix it was:
- First insert a new pdf in the site and make an incremental crawl.
- When the crawl finishes search for the file in the crawl log, we saw that MOSS was indexing the ListItem, but not the file itself. The best thing you can do is, instead of searching for the file itself, search the root folder of the document library it is located into. So you can see if the crawled item is the ListItem (dispform.aspx) or the pdf file itself.
- Checked the file types in the search administration of the SSP, it turned out that the pdf extension was not present (fuck!). Add it!
- Made a full crawl.
- Check the crawl log, nothing changed.
- In the index server we fixed the installation of the Foxit iFilter and restarted the Office SharePoint Search Service.
- Made another full crawl.
- In the crawl log we searched for the file and was found as a pdf. We could see the correct result in the searches in our portal.
Hope it helps!
