I was doing range queries in the Search Center UI to limit documents between two exact dates. But no matter what I entered as hours/minutes/seconds in my query I still got the same result. There are good and bad news around this. The good news is that you can change the resolution from day to [...]
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. [...]
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 [...]
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 [...]
