Adding CTS flows through the FSIS Admin UI is a tedious process which requires a lot of clicks through a wizard like workflow. Redeploying (updating a flow) is even more time consuming because you have to remove the flow first before adding it back. If you have a lot of flows there, you would have […]
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Use a config file with FSIS CTS Flows
The Problem One of the major shortcomings of FSIS CTS is that there is no functionality to load configuration values from a file to use within the flows. Things like server addresses, content directories, email address, etc… have to be hardcoded into each of the CTS operators. If you are like me and have become […]
Get better control of uploading a new index profile in FAST ESP
Overview If you’ve ever updated or changed the index profile in ESP, you are very familiar with the Matching Engines page in the ESP Admin GUI which allows you to upload a new index profile. Uploading a new index profile using this page is very easy but this method of uploading an index profile is […]
Powershell Cmdlet for FAST Search Document Removal
On a project I’m currently on, we had a scenario where we needed to support being able to quickly remove potentially many documents from the FAST Search index. Unfortunately, the FAST web administration only allows you to delete one document at a time, which would definitely not be suitable for our scenario. We had a […]
Communicating with FAST ESP from a .NET application through SSL
For a custom application we’re building, we decided to use SSL to communicate between our .NET application and the FAST query server. Setting up SSL to enable secure communication between a .NET application and a FAST query server is fairly simple but the FAST documentation doesn’t exactly explain it a straightforward manner. These were the […]
Business Connectivity Services: FAST Indexing With Null Values in Arrays from BCS Entities
Recently, I was working with Jeff Monette [pointbridge.com] at a client, setting up some Business Connectivity Services (BCS) connectors in SharePoint 2010 to index them with a FAST Search for SharePoint 2010 install.The connectors were set up correctly, and accessing data from external Line of Business (LOB) systems was not a problem.What turned out to […]
FAST Navigator Oddity
I recently noticed an interesting behavior with the navigators in FAST ESP. Just as a refresher, navigators are used in FAST to allow users to quickly filter through results. Navigators facilitate that drill down/up mechanism on a set of search results. On a project I am currently working on, I have been using FAST navigators […]
How to handle noise words with FAST ESP?
Having used SharePoint Search for a while, I got into the habit of quickly updating the noise words list by just updating the noise words list on the server without giving it too much thought. While working on a FAST ESP project, dealing with noise words seemed to be a bit more involved and the […]
Small tool to delete documents from FAST ESP index
I have been manipulating a lot of content recently working on FAST search as I had to delete from or load to the FAST index frequently. There is no way to delete multiple documents from the FAST index using the FAST admin UI (though you can delete one document at a time.) It’s possible to […]
A couple of FAST for SharePoint Tidbits
This is a short post about two FAST for SharePoint topics that I have had trouble finding information about on the Web. I hope this post helps others who run into either of these issues. The first topic is people search. It is well known that SharePoint continues to handle people search even when a […]
FAST Search Server 2010 for SharePoint: Creating a Custom Document Processing Step
FAST Search Server 2010 for SharePoint includes the capability to extend the document processing pipeline by adding additional steps. These steps are implemented as executable assemblies that accept, at minimum, two command line arguments: the path to an input file and the path to an output file. The input file is created by the document […]