In the settings for the Core Result Web Part you have the possibility to set the length of your hit summary. The default is 185 characters, and the upper limit seems to be somewhere around 400 when running against FAST Search Server 2010 for SharePoint. As an example I have indexed a page on our [...]
Search tip If you search with only a hash “#”, then you will do an empty search and all results are returned. When modifying the xslt for the Core Search Result Webpart it’s nice to know what data is actually included in the xml. SharePoint 2010 has a section called “How to: View Search Results [...]
I can’t claim to know the real political reasons behind this, which according to Corey Roth’s blog post last December is because “it’s by design”. In my mind “by design” is not a real reason. For non .Net programmers, a sealed web part means that you cannot inherit from it, doing your own customizations. So, [...]
When we started Comperio 6 years ago, many of the search projects were limited to one or two objectives. The goal was often just to “fix” search on the web site and/or the intranet. With the tools and solution concepts we had available at the time that was demanding enough. Today, however, the success of [...]
One of the pleasures of leading Comperio is that I get a chance to meet a lot of interesting people with exciting ideas. Their undertakings span from how to improve productivity through better information access in an intranet, how to boost revenues and profits in an eCommerce solution through supportive shopping guides and a customer-centric [...]
