How To: create Keywords and Best Bets for MOSS Search programmatically

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re: How To: create Keywords and Best Bets for MOSS Search programmatically

Matthias Glubrecht — Thu, 12 Apr 2007 18:39:50 GMT

Hi Stefan,

thanks a lot; this post saved us half a day of trial and error, I guess :-)

Regards, Matthias

re: How To: create Keywords and Best Bets for MOSS Search programmatically

Jerry K. — Mon, 02 Jul 2007 20:54:49 GMT

Can you do the same in SPS 2003? (add keywords and best bets programatically)

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Carlos Sampaio — Wed, 17 Oct 2007 17:46:30 GMT

Thank you Stefan for this sample. We had over 1500 keywords, plus Synonyms on our site. This will reduce the effort from days to minutes.

re: How To: create Keywords and Best Bets for MOSS Search programmatically

Cale Hoopes — Thu, 01 Nov 2007 00:22:50 GMT

Stefan,

Since you can do this programmatically and it seems to bind to the SSP does this mean that you can set keywords (synonyms) and best bets at the SSP level for non-MOSS site searching? I'm curious because I have a MCMS 2002 site that we're going to crawl with MOSS and we want to know if we can configure synonyms and best bets.

Meaning, do you think I could do:

SearchContext searchContext = SearchContext.GetContext(spsite);

Keywords keywords = new Keywords(searchContext, new Uri("http://MYCMSSITE/"));

// loop begin

Keyword myKeyword = keywords.AllKeywords.Create("myKeyword", DateTime.Now);

myKeyword.Synonyms.Create("mySynonym");

BestBet bestBet = myKeyword.BestBets.Create("myBestBet", "my descript", new Uri("http://www.myBestBetDestination.com"));

myKeyword.Update();

Let me know what you think.

Cale

re: How To: create Keywords and Best Bets for MOSS Search programmatically

Stefan_Gossner — Thu, 01 Nov 2007 14:03:35 GMT

Hi Cale,

I haven't tried it myself but I think this should also work for non portal content (e.g. MCMS sites).

Give it a try!

Cheers,

Stefan

re: How To: create Keywords and Best Bets for MOSS Search programmatically

Cale Hoopes — Thu, 01 Nov 2007 19:46:24 GMT

Ok, I'll let you know how it goes. It sure would be interesting to find out. It's too bad there isn't an interface at the SSP level to set keywords by scope our source or something. Considering you can set authority pages at this level, it seems like it would have made sense to make the keyword interface at that level too.

Creating Keywords and Best Bets for MOSS Search programmatically

Life of a Hungarian SharePoint Geek — Thu, 29 Nov 2007 22:13:39 GMT

You can administer keywords and best bets on the MOSS admin UI at Search keywords at Site Collection

re: How To: create Keywords and Best Bets for MOSS Search programmatically

Chris Howell — Wed, 26 Nov 2008 14:44:31 GMT

How do you move keywords and best bets through different environments to get to production?

From what I can find out, whilst the keywords and best bets are added within a site collection they are stored in the SSP database.

The content deployment job for the site does not move the keywords to production. I've found some links saying how to export and import keywords but not easily move between environments with minimum effort.

re: How To: create Keywords and Best Bets for MOSS Search programmatically

Stefan_Gossner — Wed, 26 Nov 2008 15:04:11 GMT

Hi Chris,

you need to follow the steps in the links you found.

Cheers,

Stefan

re: How To: create Keywords and Best Bets for MOSS Search programmatically

Chris Howell — Wed, 26 Nov 2008 15:18:05 GMT

OK, thanks. These are the links I found, can you recommend one over the other?

http://www.codeplex.com/searchadmin

http://www.sharepointblogs.com/mingssn/archive/2008/05/09/export-keywords-best-bet-for-sharepoint-2007.aspx

I'm assuming the codeplex solution as the latter appears in complete?

re: How To: create Keywords and Best Bets for MOSS Search programmatically

Stefan_Gossner — Wed, 26 Nov 2008 15:29:07 GMT

Hi Chris,

sorry I did not try any of these personally so I cannot do a recommendation.

Cheers,

Stefan

re: How To: create Keywords and Best Bets for MOSS Search programmatically

Diran — Tue, 21 Apr 2009 13:06:07 GMT

Hi,

I've setup Keywords and they seem to work fine. However I've added a contact to receive an alert when the keywords come up for review but the contact doesn't get any emails or alets. I did some further investigations into this and apparently an alert should also go out to the contact when the keyword is initiall setup. Has anyone ever got this to work? I've tried this in all our environments but it doesn't seem to work in any of them.

Regards,

Diran

re: How To: create Keywords and Best Bets for MOSS Search programmatically

Phil Childs — Tue, 08 Sep 2009 17:24:37 GMT

Hi Stefan, I created the keywords and best bets using your code - thanks - and they appeared in the site collection as expected.

However, I have a problem where they do not appear during a search. If I go into the keyword settings using the UI and just click OK without changing anything, they then appear in the search as normal.

Any ideas?