When you use the out-of-the box components for searching for people, a generic search with a keyword that is included in an added Profile property will not give the results you might expect. This is especially a problem with the out-of-the-box webpart that shows information about a person: When you click on one of the [...]
SharePoint 2010 introduces the concept of Ranking Models. These models allow you to control the ranking of search results. But how do you tell the search web parts to use your custom ranking model, once you specified it? As far as I can tell there’s 2 options: Pass in the id of the model through [...]
Today I was trying to fix an error in a custom webpart that performs a query on the SharePoint farm. The goal was to retreive the records within a site though the search system. First I added a metadata property ItemDeclaredRecord that is mapped to ows__vti_ItemDeclaredRecord (DateTime). Then I tried the following query (using Steve [...]
The new version of SharePoint offers more capabilities in the keyword syntax to enhance the search experience. While in the previous version you had to resort to FullText SQL queries, a lot of things can now be accomplished with keyword syntax. For instance if you would like to filter on a date, you could use [...]
We had a very strange issue with some search functionality we developed for a portal. We created an option to search for documents in a library by specifying the path to a specific folder. This is done by specifying a keyword query like 9:”folder/subfolder”. In this case the searchproperty 9 contains the path of the item. While this [...]