I thought I would add this note about doing the configuration of FAST Search for SharePoint 2010. It seems that the typical scenario is to turn off Windows Firewall within the enterprise. More than one client I have been at has had it turned off. When I was ready to hit the configure button, I […]
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Test your queries with FAST
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 […]
FAST Query Language
FQL stands for ‘FAST Query Language’ and it used to build very flexible and powerful queries of the index. Here is a simple FQL example in which the word ‘Examen’ is searched within the document field named ‘passage’: passage:string(“Examen”) AND/OR: in these examples, the ‘and’ / ‘or’ operators indicate that they are applied to the […]
Creating a Numeric Navigator with an Ajax Chart Slider
As part of a FAST search proof of concept, I got the opportunity recently to create slightly more advanced navigator than the typical text-based set of hyperlinks. I used the FAST ESP WebParts (available on CodePlex) as a starting point and the Dundas Chart control as the basis for the Ajax user interface. Getting the […]