Comments on: Why the Enterprise Search Web Parts are sealed http://blog.comperiosearch.com/blog/2010/11/11/enterprise-search-web-parts-sealed-partially-crippled/ A blog about Search as THE solution Mon, 26 Oct 2015 18:07:52 +0000 hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=3.9.40 By: Mikael Svenson http://blog.comperiosearch.com/blog/2010/11/11/enterprise-search-web-parts-sealed-partially-crippled/#comment-15 Sun, 14 Nov 2010 19:14:32 +0000 http://nuggets.comperiosearch.com/?p=80#comment-15 The things is that people search is not done via FS4SP. It used the built in search of SP2010. And default you can sort on relevance or social distance in the web part. Via xslt you can sort whatever results you get per page on any column, but not across the whole result set.

However, phonetic search is a default feature of people search, so this helps. And with custom code you can create your own people web part which sorts on lastname instead of relevance.

Jerry Orman has an excellent post (http://blogs.msdn.com/b/jorman/archive/2010/10/06/custom-search-web-parts-in-2010.aspx) describing the steps to achieve this.

As for doing more advanced queries (eg. with fql) without rolling my own web parts I did a proof of concept for myself last week which seems to work. I have yet to test it against people search. And it would be fun to implement people search via FS4P, and compare the results with the internal People Search in SP2010.

It involves code, but instead of putting the custom code in the web part I create a custom “Search Location”. Once I get a bit further I will post some details :)

]]> By: Vegard Sandvold http://blog.comperiosearch.com/blog/2010/11/11/enterprise-search-web-parts-sealed-partially-crippled/#comment-14 Sun, 14 Nov 2010 13:25:47 +0000 http://nuggets.comperiosearch.com/?p=80#comment-14 Very interesting read, Mikael. I love the way you pry open the code to find the answers your’re looking for!

I can see why you want to add wildcards to the people search, as it makes sense to do substring matching. In FAST ESP, substring matching can also be enabled in the index profile. Do you know if that is possible to do in FS4SP?

Phonetic normalization is also something I would like to have in people search. How would you implement that using the OOB web parts (if it’s at all possible)?

Cheers,
Vegard

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