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This is the third and last part of a series of blogposts about GeoSearch with Fast Search for SharePoint. I recently held some presentations about extending the power of Fast (on DIWUG and the Dutch TechDays 2012 ) and one of the subjects that I talked about was on how to search for locations, sort on...
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This is the second part of a series of blogposts about GeoSearch with Fast Search for SharePoint. I recently held some presentations about extending the power of Fast (on DIWUG and the Dutch TechDays 2012 ) and one of the subjects that I talked about was on how to search for locations, sort on distances...
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Fast Search for SharePoint provides four great possibilities to influence the sort order of your resultset that was returned: Sort by Managed property Sort by Rank Sort by Formula Sort in Random order When I was working on my presentaion and demo for the diwug (Dutch Information Worker User Group) last...
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Recently I had a few colleagues (and myself) who tried to install FAST search for SharePoint on their development workstation. Despite the well written installation guidelines on MSDN , they had several problems, and sadly enough, they all faced different problems. These problems varied from not able...
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Recently I found out that, my Fast Search Center was not available from the “New Site” menu. Both the english as well the dutch fast search template was not available. As I saw this happen before, I checked out the site collection features overview, to enable the “SharePoint Server...
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At the company i work for, we do have around 30(?!) different labels and we decided that all websites of those labels, should be hosted on one platform: SharePoint 2010. This consolidation to one platform should really decrease costs, because we now have one generic way of developing, one platform to...
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Recently we accidentally discovered a bug within the SharePoint Search. To aggregate news from certain locations, we use the SharePoint search to query and display items based on user profile settings. This has always worked the right way: both the incremental crawl and the full crawl indexed all items...
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When you want to customize the default WSS Search box, this isn't too hard. It ships into the ContentLightUp feature, which contains a feature.xml and a searcharea.xml. In that searcharea.xml a reference to the searcharea.asxc exists. Because SharePoint works with delegates with searchboxes, all...
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MOSS 2007 and WSS 3.0 are using the same search engine. It only differs in the options that are available to each of the products. As expected, MOSS 2007 has a lot more functionality then WSS 3.0. Where WSS 3.0 is only able to use contextual search (as in: this site, this list), MOSS 2007 can be configurated...
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Today I was breaking my head on some stupid problem within SharePoint Search. We created a site with about 50 dummy pages to test some cross webapp news aggregation webpart that I created. For some reason just 4(!) news items were found, each one existing in another subweb. In the SSP the View Scopes...
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Boris Veldhuijzen-Van Zanten wrote a great blogpost in which he requested his readers to come up with the best SEO-tips. He collected all remarks and created a list with them, which he then converted into a nice WordPress plugin. For all readers who do not use WordPress, I thought it would come in handy...
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One of those things that can get really annoying after a few times, is clicking one of the searchresults in your favorite search-engine, which will navigate you to a site that then shows you that you need to signup . It happens to me everytime with Experts-Exhange.com. They manage to get their pages...
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There are a lot of sites describing how you could improve your Google Pagerank. They usually don't add any real new information besides "Make sure you are being linked to", "Use proper META-tags", "Make sure all interesting keywords are used in your TITLE-tags and in the BODY of your documents". But...