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Since, I have started working with Enterprise Search, I have received many requests looking for ways to improve what we can do with documents. The search results screen in MOSS, as flexible as it is, has always been lacking in features compared to search...
Release 3 of the Wildcard Search Web Part is now available. This minor update fixes a user reported issue where the scope property was not being used. If you are new to the blog, the Wildcard Search web part allows a user to do partial word queries with...
In the past, I have showed you how to use the KeywordQuery class as well as how to use the Enterprise Search Web Service . Today, I wanted to add one small detail on how to use the web service to return your own custom managed properties. Specifying your...
I am very glad to see that the Wildcard Search Web Part has been so well received. It's nice to know so many people are getting good use out of it. I have had a number of comments about it regarding what else works with it and what doesn't so...
You may have a case where you want to search for files that were recently modified. Sure, you can use a CAML query to do this, but what if you want to look for recently changed files across multiple content sources? Sure, you can write your own Full Text...
I was pleased to see that a new version of the Faceted Search web parts had come out recently. On my last couple of projects, the Faceted Search worked, but it didn't quite meat all the clients needs. Mainly it didn't work with fixed queries,...
I decided to go with an intro topic for Enterprise Search today. If you are like me, you often find yourself in a situation where you are doing ECM related activities such as creating custom content types that use site columns. This may present itself...
According to FeedBurner , my posts on querying Enterprise Search with the FullTextSqlQuery and KeywordQuery classes have been some of the most popular. So I thought, I would continue on these posts and explain how to do it using the web service. The SDK...
Yesterday, the Infrastructure Update for Office SharePoint Server (as well as WSS and Project Server) was released. This update makes changes to content publishing as well as Enterprise Search. The install went smoothly. Just remember like the service...
After having success with implementing wildcard search with MOSS , I decided to look into this whether or not I could inherit from the PeopleCoreResultsWebPart today to implement wildcard search functionality and unfortunately I did not get very far....
I came in after the weekend to find out that someone reported the following error when trying to use my Enterprise Search page. The search request was unable to connect to the Search Service. As you may know, this is a very generic error that means something...
I have had countless people tell me that they want to be able to do wildcard search in MOSS Enterprise Search using the existing Search Center site templates. The Search Center site template uses keyword query syntax which does not support wildcards....
When attempting to configure the Business Data Catalog for use with MOSS Enterprise Search, it can be quite common to get this message when you try crawling for the first time. The cause is actually pretty simple, but I figured I would give some troubleshooting...
I am looking forward to giving my updated talk on the Business Data Catalog and Enterprise Search tomorrow at School of Dev . For the two of you that read my blog, feel free to stop by and see the session.
I was working on an Enterprise Search deployment the other day and I encountered this lovely error. I found the answer buried in some forum posts, but I wanted to tell you what side effects I found when implementing the solution (and I wanted to make...
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