Faceted Search 2.0 for SharePoint/Search Server

Faceted Search 2.0 for SharePoint/Search Server

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Leonid Lyublinski released his second major version of Faceted Search today, this is a great tool that can instantly improve your SharePoint Server/Search Server user experience!

It provide the following benefits:

  • Grouping search results by facet
  • Displaying a total number of hits per facet value
  • Refining search results by facet value
  • Update of the facet menu based on refined search criteria
  • Displaying of the search criteria in a Bread Crumbs
  • Ability to exclude the chosen facet from the search criteria
  • Flexibility of the Faceted search configuration and its consistency with MOSS administration
  • and in version 2, he enhanced:

  • Multi- thread processing. 1st thread runs for up to 500 facets synchronously, while the 2nd thread is running asynchronously against up to ~30,000 facets
  • Client side refresh (not AJAX based) that updates only Facets web part w/o page refresh
  • Web part connection to pass Facet Settings to the Bread Crumbs
  • Extended facet schema now supports:
    • Facet icons. Default icon per Facet name complimented by an icon per Facet value
    • Friendly names for facet values
    • Built-in wild-card match, e.g. FileExtension=”ASPX?ID%” will match all “ASPX?ID=” records (useful for exclusions)
    • Exclusions. Allow exclude facet when values match pattern
    • Improved search syntax, added supports for sentences and quoted phrases
  • I would suggest that everyone who use SharePoint and Search Server to install this open source and free tools, it's really great.

    http://www.codeplex.com/FacetedSearch

    Live demo(lower right corner)

    http://www.wssdemo.com/Search/Pages/results.aspx?k=search

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