Much like our Knowledgebase documentation, the Fetch & Retrieve resources were aging quite a bit and needed a face lift. So this afternoon I went ahead and overhauled the entire wiki page with updated screenshots and references. I believe there are really only two noteworthy changes since we talked about F&R last time:

  1. The removal of the ‘Fetch & Retrieve’ button (i.e. search) from the reply window. Now it can only be accessed separately from the ‘research’ top-level menu.
  2. A dedicated ‘Fetch & Retrieve’ module was added to the Support Center. That means you can put your search on the public site too if you’d like.

Now I will say that we have made it clear in other places that the Google Custom Search Engine (GSE) is the recommended alternative, and Fetch & Retrieve has been spiritually “demoted” and pushed to an optional plugin. The feature is not completely abandoned by any means, so hopefully the new documentation works for those still wanting to use it.

So again I just wanted to post that I’ve updated the wiki to be current with 4.3 and should be much more helpful for those new to Cerb4. Please refer to this for all your Fetch & Retrieve questions and ignore the old blog post. Here’s the new permanent URL.

http://wiki.cerb4.com/wiki/Search_your_organization%27s_resources_using_Fetch_%26_Retrieve

-joegeck@wgm

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One Comment to “New to Cerb4? Fetch & Retrieve tutorial now revamped for latest versions”

  1. Cerberus Helpdesk Blog » Blog Archive » New to Cerb4? Mail Filtering article now updated for 4.3 | November 6th, 2009 at 8:29 pm

    [...] new screenshots, and created more linkouts. Not as major of a revamp as the Knowledgebase or Fetch & Retrieve resources but still significant [...]

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