NEW! Web Part for Wildcard Search in Enterprise Search

re: NEW! Web Part for Wildcard Search in Enterprise Search

TomVr — Wed, 25 Aug 2010 18:35:07 GMT

Like some commented before it's not possible to extend the PeopleCoreResultsWebPart instead of the CoreResultsWebPart because it's sealed but i have made some adjustments by reverse engineering some of the PeopleCoreResultsWebPart functionality's so if you're looking for specific People WildCard Search webpart check out my post at www.moss2007.be/.../MOSS%202007%20People%20wildcard%20search%20webpart%20and%20refine%20your%20results..aspx

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re: NEW! Web Part for Wildcard Search in Enterprise Search

CoreyRoth — Mon, 12 Jul 2010 15:39:10 GMT

@Senthil Unfortunately, People Search can't be inherited and so there is no clear way to implement it in 2007. There may be some hope for 2010, but that is yet to be determined.

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Senthil — Sun, 11 Jul 2010 20:06:55 GMT

Hi Corey, thanks so much for this greate web part & article.

But I am searching same soultion for "People Search"; yes as you said people search uses PeopleCoreResultsWebPart instead of CoreResultsWebPart.

And as you said earlier, have you released this feature for People Search at Codeplex? if not, can you please let me know what would be the relatively easy to implement?

once again, thanks for the great web part & article.

re: NEW! Web Part for Wildcard Search in Enterprise Search

CoreyRoth — Fri, 09 Jul 2010 18:49:20 GMT

@Mike Yes that is correct. You can specify multiple properties using AND/OR and have the query search just those properties.

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Mike Myers — Fri, 09 Jul 2010 18:42:22 GMT

Sorry, one more question -- can specific custom managed properties or columns be specified in the Full Text SQL Query? So I could specify to search, say, only "Title" and "MyCustomProperty"??

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Mike Myers — Fri, 09 Jul 2010 17:57:55 GMT

THANKS!!!!!!

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CoreyRoth — Fri, 09 Jul 2010 17:47:58 GMT

@Mike Get familiar with the Full Text SQL Query syntax. It shouldn't take long, it's very similar to T-SQL. Then, you can edit the code of the WildcardSearchWebPart and change the query so that it just searches the Title field. It shouldn't be too difficult.

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Mike Myers — Fri, 09 Jul 2010 17:43:16 GMT

Thanks so much for the response, Corey. Seems like we'll have to maybe create a new property with part number that excludes the prefix.

As far as the PDF issue, I'm happy to tweak the code in the web part. ANy suggestions? I know this is like asking for free consulting, so no worries if you don't have time for this ;-p

very best,

Mike

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CoreyRoth — Fri, 09 Jul 2010 15:31:14 GMT

@Mike So unfortunately, SharePoint 2007 doesn't support prefix matching like you are describing. The only way to get that is to use FAST in SharePoint 2010.

As far as your PDF issue. I think you could achieve that, but it would require you make some code changes to the Wildcard Search web part to tweak the Full Text SQL Query.

re: NEW! Web Part for Wildcard Search in Enterprise Search

CoreyRoth — Fri, 09 Jul 2010 15:29:48 GMT

@Remsal Unfortunately, the wildcard search web part doesn't work well with the Advanced Search web part.

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Mike Myers — Fri, 09 Jul 2010 08:17:05 GMT

Hi Corey - I'd reeeaaaaallllly appreciate your help ;-)

2 questions:

1. I'm noticing the wildcard is not working at the beginning of the search term. So if say I type "S29*", I get results, but if I type "*29", I do not get results. Is there a specific property (or even piece of code) I can modify to rectify this?

2. I have a search scope that is all PDF documents. Is there a way to make the wildcard search prioritize a specific column, in this case the document Title, so that matches on the title are prioritized over matches on the document's content?

Thanks much, and thanks for the great web part!

*Mike*

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Remsal Fernandes — Thu, 15 Apr 2010 11:11:19 GMT

It works great when you type in your query in the basic search box on the results page that has the WilCardSearch Webpart. But what if I want to enable wild card search for an Advance Search webpart located on another page? Is that possible?

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poupreh — Wed, 24 Mar 2010 19:12:46 GMT

Hi Corey, GetXPathNavigator resolves the scopes problem but it seems not to support dates comparison.. I wonder if there is any solution in which you could use your own advance query, display results using existing CoreResultsWebpart and paging them using existing PagingWebpart

re: NEW! Web Part for Wildcard Search in Enterprise Search

CoreyRoth — Mon, 22 Mar 2010 20:51:03 GMT

@Poupreh - Are you referring to SharePoint 2010? If so yes, that is the case. You can now override GetXPathNavigator(), I believe to make use of the SharedQueryManager object to do custom queries. However, this only supports Keyword Queries.