Any questions relating to search, either performing queries or indexing, should use this tag.
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API compatibility between FAST Search Server and Search Server 2010 Express
I'm looking to feed content into FAST Search Server . However, for development purposes, I would ideally use Search Server 2010 Express which is free to download and use.
Before going down that road, ...
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Programatically searching the current site collection only
I'm trying to programatically search a sharepoint site. The problem is, the results returned are from all site collections. How can I limit my search to only one site collection.
Here is how my code ...
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Web application zone configuration - problem with search
We are having problems with search application in our environment. The problem is that search works as expected if it's performed from the search center site collection for all sites. But it doesn't ...
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What are the differences between creating Search center as a subsite vs a new site collection?
What are the differences between creating Search center as a subsite vs a new site collection?
What are the benefits of creating it as as new site collection v.s a subsite.
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How to Create Managed Property on Custom Content Type Column
I created a custom content type with a number of columns. How can I create a Metadata Property for Search based on a column in this custom content type? How would I map the crawled properties (or to ...
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How do I fix search after renaming ULR in Alternate Access Mappings?
I am getting the following error in my logs.
Content source 'Default' has no start addresses; skipping.
Things I've done:
Changed "Default" mapping to the internal AD site, just renaming it
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Possible to pick and choose which Managed Metadata Columns show in the Refinement Panel?
I am able to get all Managed Metadata Columns to show up by adding this to my Filter Category Definition:
<Category Title="Managed Metadata Columns"
Description="Managed ...
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SharePoint search crawl not working on all site collections
Since we completed some work on our SharePoint environment the search crawls on some of the site collections are generating thousands of failures. The ULS logs refer to a COWSServer ?
Here is a ...
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How to search in a defined Site programmatically (SP Foundation)
I'm trying to get files from a Site... When i launch my query the crawler returns me data from all application on the SP installation..
The thing I'd like to do is to "restrict" this scope to a ...
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Numerical Search
This is possibly a silly amateur question however it has me completely stumped, and I'd really appreciate any input at this moment in time.
Our organisation use large amounts of excel and word ...
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Share point search “StartAt” [closed]
I am using share point search in my app.First i requested 101 results that is StarAt is 1 and Count is 101 .I save the "totalAvailable" in a variable at first request, and when the user scroll the ...
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Tips for finding items that use a TermSet?
I have several term sets that are being used by columns in custom content types. I would like to get a count of how many items are out there using each term set. Is there an easy way to do this?
I ...
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Search on site throws 'access denied' error or shows no results
In our to level site collection (which is a portal), and
I've set the search center to my enterprise search site collection: /sites/search/pages. When I log in through ADFS and try to search anything ...
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Using Foundation Search and Search Server Express simultaneously
i am using the Sharepoint api to return search results which i am getting with Microsoft.SharePoint.Search.Query.KeywordQuery.
On my development machine this is working fine.
On the Server where ...
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Sharepoint as a Digital Asset Management solution? [closed]
I am evaluating products for my company in order to meet requirements for a digital asset management system. We plan on making this management system a central location for any and all types of ...
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How to get an SPListItem from a Search Query Programmatically
I'm querying my Search Server and getting some results... How can i get the SPListItem linked to that object?
I tried with many ways, but every method fails..
Here's my code:
string ...
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search center filter by content type
In the current site we have a search center, but we would need to customize it to be able to filter by content type before the user types the search.
Thanks
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Blocking SQL queries when crawling
I am facing a problem where my content database has grown very large, and whenever I initiate a crawl, the the crawler executes a very complex SQL query on the content database, and this query blocks ...
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Full crawl not picking up the properties from content type even though they are populated and being used
After running multiple full crawl the search service app still not picking up the metadata or properties from site column and content types. The columns are well populated with 500,000+ documents.
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How to create a large (multi-line) text column that is indexed by FAST Search Server for SharePoint 2010
I am trying to create a multi-line text column in a document library, to hold raw textual content of OCR'd fax documents so that it can be crawled, indexed, and searched.
I have been unable to ...
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Reasons for Search Service Application to Crash
Can someone please list me reasons why Search Service Application crashes? This time we had go create a new search service as old one gave bunch of different errors. Went thru bunch of blogs but ...
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Added second Search Service App - How to make this SS the default search
How to make the newly created Search Service app to be the new default Search for enterprise and people. (done with crawl, scope everything for the new search). In rush, so prompt help will be GREATLY ...
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Custom SearchPage in SearchBoxEx Control
I was pushed to replace the default search box in a site collection with a customized one. At the moment it looks like this:
<Elements xmlns="http://schemas.microsoft.com/sharepoint/">
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Querying FAST Search Server for Sharepoint from Search Webparts
I'm new to SharePoint and FAST.
In SharePoint 2007 implementation for our projects we used "Esp-Searchapi" for querying the back-end FAST ESP 5.3.
As we are now migrating to SharePoint 2010 and FAST ...
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Monitor Long Runnning Search Crawls
In our environment we have a combination of Search Service Applications and FAST Search Service Applications for various purposes. Occassionally the crawls on either type of Service Application will ...
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SharePoint Search Indexer won't index TIFF files on File Share
So I've set up a new content source on my SharePoint 2010 server to index a file share on one of my servers. The file share contains a combination of PDF and TIF files.
The file share itself is setup ...
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Can the search refiner web part handle localized values?
Using the BCS I am crawling external data and I am using Managed Properties to make sure that data is available in search results. I can use the search refiner web part to refine based on one of my ...
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Policy setting 'Do not forcefully unload the user registry at user logoff' - Enabled
Today, we have encountered the issue with the SharePoint 2010 search, have verified and found that it is an known issue with Windows server 2008(R2).
many articles says that we have to enable the ...
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HRESULT: 0x80131904 error when calling the MS Search Query API
I am attempting to use the web API to access search results from MS Search Server 2010 Express. When I execute the query I get the following error and stack trace.
Server was unable to process ...
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SharePoint indexing videos in search
I have created some videos and uploaded them as the video type in the asset library. When I do a search of the content the video type does not appear in the Result type as a video but instead a web ...
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Crawling a form-based site results in wrong search results
I have a site that is setup to use a custom Membership Provider and login is done through forms. Everything is working okay, we can create users, give them permissions, etc.
For crawling the site, I ...
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Windows 2008 R2 OS 64 bit + MOSS 64 bit SP2 + VS2010 = System.BadImageFormatException
I am running Visual studio 2010 on OS 64 bit and one of my asp.net web service application that sharepoint code throwing an error.
Exception Details: System.BadImageFormatException: Could not load ...
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How to create a content source of type “web” with the option “Only crawl within the server of each start address” via powershell
I have a requirement to create a content source of type "web" with the option "Only crawl within the server of each start address" via powershell. I am trying the below command : ...
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Protocol handler urls are located in the search results
I have a one big trouble for a long time, please help me! I still didn't find the solution.
I have got a web site with my metadata.
And I have got a Sharepoint which allows to search my metadata.
This ...
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Searching User in a Multivalued User Field with Search Service Application
I have a list with a person column (SPFieldUser) where multiple selections are allowed.
When the items in the list are crawled the first time the Search Service creates a crawled property for that ...
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How to “Search by Code” in Sharepoint Foundation 2010 items with a custom column
I've got a site collection on a Sharepoint Foundation 2010. I've Search Express also installed..
When i wrote down in the search box something like "Parameter:Value" it returns me the right elements ...
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Search without actual query and only using managed metadata value and scope
I would like to search using OOB search results web part so that I define a scope and one managed metadata value. Search should return items only from that scope and only items that contain that value ...
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How to search a custom field in Sharepoint Foundation 2010
I'm trying to make the search server to look inside fields that are not in custom definition. For example i've a document library and i had the column MyCol... If i search and put in the query string ...
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Customize search results in Sharepoint 2007 without Designer
I'm trying to customize the Search Core Results on a 2007 website and do not have Designer available to me. The default search look and feel is a big google-esque, but I want to mirror the look of a ...
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People Search Cores Results Web Part + Member Of Properties
Trying to configure a People Search Core Results web part in SP 2010. I've configured it to correctly return users based on the "SPS-JobTitle" and/or "SPS-Location" attributes. I've found, however, ...
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Crawling via a custom protocol handler
I've adapted the C# Protocol Handler to my particular search requirements, and I'm trying to get SharePoint to use it.
I've registered the DLL with regasm
I've installed it in the GAC. (I've also ...
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SP2010 - Search in Discussion Board using search.asmx web service
I'm developing a client application that uses SP search web service to search in the discussion boards.
I have created a scope using the contentclass STS_List_DiscussionBoard.
Could you please help me ...
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Looking to integrate open source sharepoint connector with SearchBlox
Has anyone modified the open source google connector to work with SearchBlox? If not, how easy would it be to change the connector to index to the SearchBlox REST API. ...
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Refinement panel not showing all taxonomy fields
I have been trying to use the Refinement Panel web part to improve the search experience on my site. I've run into an issue where certain taxonomy fields are showing while others are not. This is ...
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How can I modify search service to include words that could be like “una” in Spanish?
I have a problem searching for someone in SharePoint 2010. In my organization there is a person whose surname is "Uña" (nail in english) but cannot be found in search. When I write his surname in ...
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I would like to CRAWL ONLY SPECIFIC ITEM/DOCUMENT to FAST Search Server 2010? Programatically?
I would like to Crawl particular Item. To the FAST Search Server. I don't wanted to do Incremental/Full Crawl.
I can write event Handler when new Item and Check for Specific condition. If the ...
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Controlling Metadata Search Refiners in Search Refinement Panel
I'm trying to figure out why not all of my Metadata terms appear as refiners in the Refinement Panel.
I have the following content type structure:
Lawyer
Office
News
There are Metadata terms ...
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Regex Query Against FAST Search 2010
I'm looking for a way to do searches with FAST Search Server 2010 based on Regular Expressions.
For instance, I'd like to be able to use:
^\d{3}-\d{2}-\d{4}$
And have it return any content ...
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Sharepoint 2010 Search Server not crawling content due to filter daemon timeout?
We recently did a Content Database refresh in our Test environment and am now finding that Search is not working. We are using Sharepoint 2010 Search Server and all has been running fine until the ...
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Search Server Crawler and Excluded URLs
I am currently configuring the search crawler to access our existing non-SharePoint document management system in order to include these documents in Enterprise Search. The document management system ...
