Wildcard Search Web Part Release 2 is Here!

Posted Tuesday, September 16, 2008 8:54 AM by CoreyRoth

In keeping with my commitment to continue to give back to the SharePoint community, I am pleased to announce Release 2 of the Wildcard Search Web Part for MOSS Enterprise Search.  This new version of the Wildcard Search control adds support for passing a scope to the query using the standard 'S' URL parameter.  This allows you to use the scopes dropdownlist so that you can query other content sources (i.e.: the BDC).

This release also adds a new property FixedFullTextSqlQuery which can be used to specify a static Full Text SQL Query.  You can type in any query using the Search Full Text SQL Query syntax, and it will execute provided no keyword parameter has been passed using the query string.  You can set this property through the UI, programmatically, or by using CAML.  It also can be a great way to test out a full text query.  Keep in mind though, you should use this parameter with caution as you can easily write a query that does not perform well (such as returning the whole index).

So not a huge release, but the issue with scope definitely needed to be addressed.  Many thanks for everyone who has downloaded Release 1 and left comments and feedback.  Please continue to leave comments and report any issues you may have here or on CodePlex.

Wildcard Search Web Part Release 2

Here is more information on how Release 1 works.

Comments

# re: Wildcard Search Web Part Release 2 is Here!

Tuesday, September 16, 2008 1:08 PM by fromonesource

Does this work with people search? :)

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# re: Wildcard Search Web Part Release 2 is Here!

Wednesday, September 17, 2008 10:28 AM by nilang19

you are doing really gr8 job. keep it up.

will this web-part work with Faceted Search 2.5?

Thanks,

Nilang

# re: Wildcard Search Web Part Release 2 is Here!

Wednesday, September 17, 2008 4:22 PM by CoreyRoth

Unfortunately I have not identified a good way to handle people search (www.dotnetmafia.com/.../wildcard-search-with-moss-people-search.aspx).

Thanks for the comments.  It doesn't work with Faceted Search out of the box unfortunately.  From my understanding it reads the user's query from the querystring.  It could be possible to write an interface to connect the web parts, but would require development in both projects.  This is definitely something I would like to see done though.

# re: Wildcard Search Web Part Release 2 is Here!

Wednesday, September 17, 2008 5:50 PM by stakhyra

Corey

Thank you for great web part, I have a question: when this web part is added to results.aspx page "Did you mean...” stop working. Is it because keywords are set to null?

# re: Wildcard Search Web Part Release 2 is Here!

Thursday, September 18, 2008 11:04 AM by CoreyRoth

Yes, I believe that is the reason why.  I think the Search Summary web part only works with keyword queries.  

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# re: Wildcard Search Web Part Release 2 is Here!

Thursday, September 25, 2008 7:51 AM by Owens

Hi,

I have installed MOSS Wildcard Search Web part onto my sharepoint server.

I have added, deployed the solution through Central Adminstration... and also activated the same thru Site Collection Features option in the site settings.

The wildcard search is working fine.

BUT I AM FACING A PROBLEM after installing the Wildcard Search Core Results web part, BEST BETS are not working.

Please do help me in this regard.

Thanks,

Owens Jesse

# re: Wildcard Search Web Part Release 2 is Here!

Monday, September 29, 2008 8:52 PM by CoreyRoth

That is correct.  Best bets do not work with wildcard search (since they are keyword based).  More info here.  www.dotnetmafia.com/.../what-you-give-up-with-full-text-sql-queries-using-wildcard-search.aspx

# re: Wildcard Search Web Part Release 2 is Here!

Friday, October 17, 2008 4:58 AM by Yerima

Hi there, I have installed, deployed and activated the wildcard search in my MOSS and no different results are generated on wildcard searches, it seems like it doesn't work since my faceted search still works fine, could anyone advise on this. This is how I installed it:

1) Stsadm -o addsolution ...... as in the readme (I had to run it from folder PACKAGE)

2) Deployed from MOSS admin - Solution Management

3) Activated from Site Collection Features

4) Added Webpart to Search Center

....... run queries with asterix without having any hit generated due to the asterix.

Thanks

# re: Wildcard Search Web Part Release 2 is Here!

Wednesday, October 22, 2008 9:31 AM by CoreyRoth

Make sure you modified the results.aspx page (as opposed to the default aspx page) in your search center.  Also be sure that you have removed the existing CoreResultsWebPart from your results page.

# re: Wildcard Search Web Part Release 2 is Here!

Monday, November 24, 2008 6:11 PM by JoshNoble

If you want to properly do a wildcard search in something more advanced such as people search, faceated or federated search you may need to move to something more robust like Ontolica Wildcard.  This is not free, but it does get around those issues as well as the RSS and Best Bets problem.  Corey has developed a good wildcard search if you only need basic google-like search functions.  

# re: Wildcard Search Web Part Release 2 is Here!

Wednesday, January 6, 2010 8:32 AM by Chris

like it

# re: Wildcard Search Web Part Release 2 is Here!

Wednesday, June 9, 2010 9:41 AM by Jose M. Tamez

Great job man! It's been invaluable for me for use with scoped lists. I drop it just above the scoped list and it works great. Thanks!

# re: Wildcard Search Web Part Release 2 is Here!

Wednesday, June 9, 2010 9:57 AM by CoreyRoth

Excellent, glad it works for you.

# re: Wildcard Search Web Part Release 2 is Here!

Friday, November 12, 2010 3:40 AM by Alberto

Hello Corey.

A problem with web part. It doesn't work setting properties in weba part task pane. For example I i set the scope or change xml nothinh happens. Is it by design?

Thanks

Alberto

# re: Wildcard Search Web Part Release 2 is Here!

Monday, November 14, 2011 1:45 AM by Doreen

Hi, for the advance search, how's the property mean? the document property? My company hope to have a "tagging" solution. I wanted to make use of the property "Description" but i can't get it to work. please reply.

# re: Wildcard Search Web Part Release 2 is Here!

Wednesday, December 7, 2011 8:35 PM by CoreyRoth

@Doreen I'm afraid I'm not understanding what you're trying to do.  Can you provide more information?

# re: Wildcard Search Web Part Release 2 is Here!

Tuesday, July 24, 2012 1:22 PM by jwer

I had previously encountered an issue sorting the search results returned by your web part (by clicking on the column headers); there was some XSL that needed to be put in the Parameters Editor. However, I didn't save that XSL, and when I had to recreate the part, I now can't find it... I thought I'd found it on one of these forums, but no dice.

Any idea what I'm talking about? Thanks.

# re: Wildcard Search Web Part Release 2 is Here!

Monday, August 6, 2012 2:19 PM by CoreyRoth

@jwer I am familiar with what you are talking about but don't have the XSL handy.  The one issue with XSL sorting is that it doesn't work when you go between pages in the resultset.

# re: Wildcard Search Web Part Release 2 is Here!

Tuesday, August 28, 2012 1:38 PM by jwer

Found it, thanks. This is what it looks like:

<ParameterBinding Name="dvt_sortfield" Location="Postback;Connection" />

<ParameterBinding Name="dvt_sortdir" Location="Postback;Connection" />

I'm disappointed in the result-page-only sort, too, but we decided it was not a big enough deal to worry about.

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