June, 2012

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BCS and FAST: Introduction and first steps

Posted 11 months ago

by Matt King - Search
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The first of a series of posts on using the BCS for feeding content into FAST Search for SharePoint. We'll set the table for what the series will cover and then dive right in to creating a brand new BCS project and getting a test document indexed into FAST.

Click through... it's a bit long!
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Smoke testing a FAST for SharePoint install

Posted 11 months ago

by Matt King - Search
- 1 Comments
One of the things I like to do after first installing and configuring FAST, and before trying to connect the SharePoint SSA's is to test the FAST install to make sure that basic indexing and search are working. None of this is rocket science but I got...
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Quick Hits: Dealing with managed properties in the search center XSLT

Posted 11 months ago

by Matt King - Search
- 0 Comments
Even though you've named your managed property using mixed capitalization, doesn't mean you can refer to it that way in the Search Core Results web part's XSLT. You will need to lowercase them. See HitHighlightedProperties for an example in the default...
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Quick Hits: Using a custom property with hit highlighting

Posted 11 months ago

by Matt King - Search
- 0 Comments
So you have a managed property with SummaryType set to Dynamic and you want to use that in the FAST Search Center but your results show up with <c0> tags instead of highlighted terms? In the Core Results XSLT, replace the following: <xsl:when...
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Quick Hits: Mapping a crawled property that contains TextChunks

Posted 10 months ago

by Matt King - Search
- 0 Comments
This is quite an edge case, but someone may run into it again. Inside the FAST pipeline, there are two string types. Plain old strings and TextChunks. TextChunks are used to be able to efficiently handle large strings that may need to be modified....

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June, 2012

BCS and FAST: Introduction and first steps

Smoke testing a FAST for SharePoint install

Quick Hits: Dealing with managed properties in the search center XSLT

Quick Hits: Using a custom property with hit highlighting

Quick Hits: Mapping a crawled property that contains TextChunks

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