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Enterprise Search Crawl Error: The parameter is incorrect

I have been reconfiguring a search index and running into this issue a lot, so I thought I would post on it. In my case, I am crawling a content source that comes from a BDC application definition. The first time I crawl, I get the following error. The parameter is incorrect. (LobSystemInstance could...

Posted to Mirrored Blogs (Weblog) by Anonymous on 12-29-2008
String[] in columns returned from KeywordQuery.Execute

I have posted in the past about how to use the KeywordQuery class to execute an Enterprise Search query. This makes it easy to get a DataTable containing search results. However, one caveat with this is that some columns get returned as a string array (string[]) instead of a string. This can make data...

Posted to Mirrored Blogs (Weblog) by Anonymous on 12-11-2008
Data Types of Managed Properties in Search Results

The other day, I was trying to work some XSLT magic with my CoreResultsWebPart. What I was trying to do is pass an integer value in a search query (that went against a BDC application definition) in a link to a page. This should be a simple task, but when I added the field to my template, it displayed...

Posted to Mirrored Blogs (Weblog) by Anonymous on 12-09-2008
Wildcard Search Web Part and Document Link Handler added to Search Community Toolkit

I am excited to announce that, the Wildcard Search Web Part and the Document Link Handler for Enterprise Search have been added to the Search Community Toolkit . I thought both of these tools are a great fit to the toolkit since they are so useful in extending the functionality of Enterprise Search....

Posted to Mirrored Blogs (Weblog) by Anonymous on 12-08-2008
Sharing an Index between SharePoint Farms

I've seen a few posts in the forums lately on this, so I thought I would post how I have implemented it in the past. The issue is you have multiple SharePoint farms, but you want one index server to handle both of them. This is actually pretty easy to setup, if you don't mind your farms sharing...

Posted to Mirrored Blogs (Weblog) by Anonymous on 12-04-2008
An Open Letter to Microsoft on Enterprise Search

The Enterprise Search component of MOSS 2007 and Search Server are great products and they can do a lot of great things out of the box, however I repeatedly see the same requests from clients. I also see people having the same issues in the forums all the time. I would like to summarize a list of things...

Posted to Mirrored Blogs (Weblog) by Anonymous on 11-11-2008
Introducing Document Link Handler for MOSS 2007 Enterprise Search

Since, I have started working with Enterprise Search, I have received many requests looking for ways to improve what we can do with documents. The search results screen in MOSS, as flexible as it is, has always been lacking in features compared to search results of other ECM systems. Common feature requests...

Posted to Mirrored Blogs (Weblog) by Anonymous on 10-31-2008
Adding an Edit Document Link to Enterprise Search Results

I have seen a lot of requests to get more functionality on search results for documents lately. People want to be able to edit documents, go to the folder the document is in, go to the site, view properties, etc. I have solutions for all of those which I will be sharing in the next few days. However...

Posted to Mirrored Blogs (Weblog) by Anonymous on 10-27-2008
Search providers (adding MOSS search to IE7/Firefox)

Just thought I would share something I knocked together earlier today... This based partly on this from Mark Harrison and a sample from Greg Griffiths So, you'd like the nice IE/Firefox search box to include searching your MOSS site(s)?? You can do Mark's registry manipulation (which if you control...

Posted to Matt Groves - SharePoint blogger. (Weblog) by Matt Groves on 10-27-2008
Wildcard Search Version 1.0 Release 3

Release 3 of the Wildcard Search Web Part is now available. This minor update fixes a user reported issue where the scope property was not being used. If you are new to the blog, the Wildcard Search web part allows a user to do partial word queries with Enterprise Search (i.e.: searching for red, returns...

Posted to Mirrored Blogs (Weblog) by Anonymous on 10-14-2008

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