Adding query suggestions to your search solution is a feature that can contribute to a better search experience for end-users. First of all, it makes us save time as we don’t have to type in the entire query. Secondly, it can help the user avoid potential spelling errors, which in turn can reduce the quality of the [...]
I was fortunate to be one of three finalists in SharePoint Magazine’s Aspiring Author Contest. Today the article went live and I’m quite happy about it. You can read the article over at SharePoint Magazine, and if you like it feel free to click the Facebook Like button at the end. The other two finalists [...]
Out of the box SharePoint 2010 comes with a pretty good people search. This is due to a combination of phonetic rules and a vast list of nicknames. Out of the box the US English nickname list consists of over 14.000 nickname mappings, ensuring good results when trying to find people. But what if you [...]
When SharePoint 2010 came out the only way to create a search scope was to do it by PowerShell. Well, you could create the scope name itself via Central Admin, but the actual scope filter had to be done via PowerShell.
[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. [...]
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 [...]
