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Transcript of Moss Search Challenges
Nauzad KapadiaPrincipal Consultant - Quartz [email protected]
Agenda
What’s Going OnChallengesTips
Key Takeaways
How Search WorksOptimizing the search experienceCustomizing the search resultsCommon challenges and tipsIndexing external content in databases, ERP apps or other LOB applications
Architecture and Concepts
Challenges – Storage Options
Create Folders to segregate content or create metadata properties ?Metadata properties will help in SearchBut…. (some tips)
Keep an eye on number of items at a particular levelIf number of items go beyond a couple of thousand, index the list.Try to create one index per view and keep the indexed column as the first column in the view.
Tip – Use Search Center
For an optimal search experience, create a site using the Search Center TemplateUse Search Center with Tabs as far as possible as it makes testing easierAdd the same tabs on the search page as well as the search results page
Challenges – Where are my files
Make sure the indexer can reach the content
Tip – Get into the habit of viewing crawl logs for debugging
Tip – Create a page to show search results in plain vanilla xml
Get a lot of hidden informationVery useful for debugging
Challenges – Where are my properties
Do you have a valid IFilter?Have you mapped crawled properties to managed properties?
Challenges – Why don’t I see all my properties
Have you added properties to the Search Results WebPart?Have you modified the XSL to include the new properties
Tip – Narrowing the search
Create ScopesMake the scope available to the userHardcode the scope for selected tabs
Tip – Getting rid of “bad” words
Tip – Err, did you mean this or that
SynonymsKeywordsBest Bets
Tip – What about data from here and what about data from there and there and there too…
Create a BDC Application Definition file using BDC Editor (part of MOSS SDK)Create IEnumerator method for the searchable entities
Tip – Where did the rest of my stuff go?
MaxDownloadSizeMaxGrowthFactor
Track Resources
Microsoft Enterprise Search BlogMicrosoft Enterprise Search Bloghttp://blogs.msdn.com/enterprisesearch/http://blogs.msdn.com/enterprisesearch/
IfiltersIfiltershttp://www.ifiltershop.comhttp://www.ifiltershop.com
Search XSLT TemplatesSearch XSLT Templateshttp://sctxsl.codeplex.com/http://sctxsl.codeplex.com/
Microsoft Enterprise Search Landing PageMicrosoft Enterprise Search Landing Pagehttp://www.microsoft.com/enterprisesearchhttp://www.microsoft.com/enterprisesearch
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