If you have to globally demote a type of document in your fast search results, you can do it via FS4SP powershell with a pretty cool function called “AddPromotedExpression”. AddPromotedExpression takes in input your FQL expression applying it to all the query submitted in FAST. Here the powershell lines: $SettingGroup = Get-FASTSearchSearchSettingGroup -name “GUID of … Continua a leggere
If you don’t like to get an access denied error message when you crawl the user profile at root sps3://sp2010 or you hate to search people and find 0 results, you have to grant to the Default Content Access Account permissions to the User Profile Service Application. Go to the Service Applications page, click on User … Continua a leggere
Recently I had the need to build a custom FAST Search results page to allow users to preview videos and photo files stored in SharePoint and display them or inline with a silverlight player or with our custom application page. I’ve done this following these steps: -Create Managed Property mapped to a crawled property for the identification … Continua a leggere
“The item processing pipeline in FAST Search Server 2010 for SharePoint performs various tasks, such as text extraction, language detection, and tokenization to prepare an item from a content source for indexing and searching.Some applications may require extensions to the item processing. You can generate additional searchable metadata from the content. The pipeline extensibility interface … Continua a leggere
FAST notes #1— I don’t know why, but when you get this kind of errors “QI for IEnumVARIANT failed on the unmanaged server..etc” or “Retrieving the COM class factory…etc” for everything you click in your FAST service applications, run an always good IISRESET on the Crawler Component of your farm..It’s a temporary fix 😉
Create a Query Scope with sharepoint-powershell using Managed Property “sitename” : New-SPEnterpriseSearchQueryScope -SearchApplication “Shared-FASTQuery” -Name scopename-Description “description” -DisplayInAdminUI 1 -ExtendedSearchFilter ‘(sitename:”contoso home”)OR(sitename:”contoso news”)OR(sitename:contoso)’ Then go to Central Admin and run the update scope job in FASTQuery search service application UI…That’s what we’re talking about!! Here we go, there ‘s no need to run a full … Continua a leggere
è gia.. è proprio cosi, il search as you type, o tendina redazionale, o autocomplete della searchbox, chiamatelo come volete, fatto sta che ho realizzato un JS Jquery che mentre si digita la keyword di ricerca fa chiamate ajax al webservice di Fast per restituire in una tendina l’anteprima dei risultati. Premettendo che i primi … Continua a leggere
Create a Managed Propery for a refinement mapping to Crawled Property by POWERSHELL: $mp = New-FASTSearchMetadataManagedProperty -Name MPname -Type 1 $mp.Description = “Description” $mp.RefinementEnabled = $true $cp = Get-FASTSearchMetadataCrawledProperty -Name CPname New-FASTSearchMetadataCrawledPropertyMapping -ManagedProperty $mp -CrawledProperty $cp $mp.Update() You can see the update in Sharepoint Central Admin in FastQuery Managed Properties menù… 😉
