Using Federated Search in Geographic Environments

re: Using Federated Search in Geographic Environments

David Rettig — Mon, 29 Sep 2008 15:13:29 GMT

Broken link

http://tnstage.dns.microsoft.com/en-us/library/cc262205(TechNet.10).aspx

re: Using Federated Search in Geographic Environments

Brenda Carter — Mon, 29 Sep 2008 21:39:34 GMT

Thanks, David! I fixed the broken link. Brenda

re: Using Federated Search in Geographic Environments

Sabin — Wed, 05 Nov 2008 01:10:44 GMT

Hi Brenda,

Thanks for the article. When I use the Federated Search Webparts, I can only get 10 results. This is because the RSS feed from the SharePoint Search Page only provides 10 results. Do you know of a way to increase the number of items returned from SharePoint in the searchRss.aspx Feed???

Thanks,

Sabin

re: Using Federated Search in Geographic Environments

Brenda Carter — Sat, 08 Nov 2008 00:44:50 GMT

Hi Sabin,

I tracked down an answer for you from the search team. Let me know if this does not work.

Thanks, Brenda

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You can change this by modifying the rss page. In order for it to be supported, you’ll have to make your own version of the RSS feed. We don’t support changing the OOB files because these get overwritten upon upgrade/patching.

On each WFE:

1. Copy D:\Program Files\Common Files\Microsoft Shared Debug\Web Server Extensions\14\TEMPLATE\LAYOUTS\srchrss.aspx

2. Rename the file to “mysrchrss.aspx”. Keep it in the LAYOUTS folder.

3. Open the file. You’ll see a small file that contains this XML:

<SRCHWC:SearchRSS

…

runat="server"/>

4. Add a line to this structure:

<SRCHWC:SearchRSS

ResultsPerPage=50

…

runat="server"/>

5. Direct any queries you want against the new rss file. Treat it just like you would the regular rss (same url paramanters, etc).

This should change it. The range is 1<=x<=50. Try this in a test environment first.

If you want to change the link in the search results UI page to go against a new RSS feed, you will have to…

• Edit the XSLT of the Actions web part

• Add some code that parses the rss url for “srchrss” and replaces it with “mysrchrss”

Changing it in the UI may be unnecessary if you only want programatic access to the RSS elements (i.e. through an RSS reader).

re: Using Federated Search in Geographic Environments

Sabin — Sat, 22 Nov 2008 02:02:22 GMT

Hi Brenda,

Thanks for the answer. This works great. I had figured out up to changing the value.However I was using the same OOTB file. You are right, in an update my changes may get blown away.

Thanks again for your help.

Sabin

re: Using Federated Search in Geographic Environments

Marvin — Thu, 11 Dec 2008 11:54:43 GMT

Hi I have a question Im a admin of MOSS in my company and I want to know is it possible to have a consolidated result from diffrent federated search?

re: Using Federated Search in Geographic Environments

Brenda Carter — Fri, 12 Dec 2008 01:44:11 GMT

Hi Marvin,

I verified this with a member of the product team. You can consolidate results using two different methods:

1) Same result page: you can have different federated web parts that get information from different sources display results in the same page

2) There’s a special federated web part that provides summary (to results) of your results from all federated connections.

Even with these methods, though, there is no unique ranking for results in different locations even if these are SharePoint results.

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