To quickly and easily test FAST queries, you can use the Search Front End UI and its advanced options to create queries against your content without having to debug queries through code. This is a very useful feature, especially if you have worked on SharePoint Search projects where testing queries consisted of building your own application or using a third party tool.
You can execute simple text search and apply a search mode (All, Any or Exact Phrase):
Advanced options provided an easy way to query your content:
You can also directly try your FQL queries:
Get the results
If you want to investigate all the fields coming back from FAST, you can easily configure that in the advanced options by checking the ‘Show All Fields’ check box and you will be able to see all the fields and their respective values:
For even more details on your search results, check the ‘Debug Mode’ check box
and the ranklog field now shows a formula with which the rank value is being calculated:
You can also specifically search against fields in the ‘Fielded Search’:
You can execute simple text search and apply a search mode (All, Any or Exact Phrase):
Advanced options provided an easy way to query your content:
You can also directly try your FQL queries:
Get the results
If you want to investigate all the fields coming back from FAST, you can easily configure that in the advanced options by checking the ‘Show All Fields’ check box and you will be able to see all the fields and their respective values:
For even more details on your search results, check the ‘Debug Mode’ check box
and the ranklog field now shows a formula with which the rank value is being calculated:
You can also specifically search against fields in the ‘Fielded Search’:
