The defacto way of creating a custom pipeline stage in FAST for SharePoint is to create an executable file which reads and writes an xml file. This usually implies having Visual Studio available and compiling and deploying a new file each time you make a change in order to test it in a proper pipeline. [...]
Property extraction (previously called entity extraction in FAST ESP) is a process that extracts information from the visible textual content of an item and stores that information as additional crawled properties for the document. In this blog post I will show how this can be automated in any given FAST Search for SharePoint installation. But [...]
[Cross-posted from Tech And Me] As described on TechNet: Best Bets are recommended results. Best Bets can link to recommended Web sites, data stores, and documents. When a user includes a keyword or one of its synonyms in a query, the search results page features links to its associated Best Bets in a prominent position. [...]
…and how the hidden web can be revealed In the current flame war between Google and Bing, there is a good amount of pie-throwing going on around the internet. But in the process, some very interesting tech stuff has surfaced as well. We’ve got a glimpse on one of the many components Bing is using [...]
When developing client applications using WCF, you’re bound to sooner or later encounter the dreaded “The server was unable to process the request due to an internal error”. This means that the web service threw an unhandled exception, and if you don’t have access to the service itself, you’re simply just out of luck. But [...]
Lately I have encountered several customs who deploy search from SharePoint 2010, but they still have other solutions running on MOSS 2007 or other portal frameworks. Instead of creating custom solutions using the search service on SharePoint 2010, framing is a quick solution to get you up and running. One way is to create a [...]
In the old FAST a much used stage during development is the “Spy” stage. What this stage does is dump out a log file of all current attributes and the values assigned to them at that point in the content processing pipeline. Fortunately for us, this stage still exists in FS4SP, and it might help [...]
That depends on what you are doing with your certificates. If you followed the installation instructions you are most likely using a self-signed certificate created during installation which is only valid for a year. Fast forward one year from your installation date, and your users will start complaining for sure. Your options are either to [...]
One of the most powerful features with FS4SP is the ability to do work on the indexed data before it’s made searchable. This can include extracting location names from the documents being indexed or enriching the data from external sources by adding financial data to a customers CRM record based on a lookup key. Only [...]
(Part 1: The Hackish Way) In Part 1 I used two Search Core Results Web Parts and a bit of jQuery magic to achive the look of blended search results This time we will create our own CoreResultsWebPart and inject the blended results into the result xml before it is transformed into html. In addition [...]
