Announcing Faceted Search v2.5

Microsoft SharePoint Team Blog — Wed, 13 Aug 2008 00:58:35 GMT

Cross posted from the Enterprise Search Blog Starting Faceted Search 2.5, the solution relies on Microsoft

Microsoft Announces Faceted Search for MOSS 2007

Bob Mixon — Wed, 13 Aug 2008 05:45:00 GMT

A new version, 2.5, of Faceted search for MOSS 2007 is now available. I haven't tried it yet but

re: Announcing Faceted Search v2.5

Romain Meraud — Wed, 13 Aug 2008 13:41:10 GMT

still in beta at this time. It would be great to indicate that point.

re: Announcing Faceted Search v2.5

Patrik — Tue, 19 Aug 2008 17:32:54 GMT

Is there a way to update the 2.0 version to the 2.5 version. Because I saw in the 2.5 installation manual that it checks if faceted search is not yet installed. Or should I deinstall 2.0, and copy-paste all my adaptations in the columns for settings part of the webpart?

And add again the webpart to all my search pages? Or will it know that webpart still on my search pages?

re: Announcing Faceted Search v2.5

LEONID LYUBLINSKI — Tue, 26 Aug 2008 16:53:30 GMT

If you use a SharePoint Installer (packed with Faceted Search) for deployment, then the best way is to Remove 2.0 first using said SharePoint Installer. I recommend then to delete both Faceted Search web parts from the SC web part gallery. Faceted Search 2.0 definition files (.webpart) refer to the 2.0 run-time, however MOSS doesn’t upload them over into the SC web part gallery when Faceted Search 2.5 is deployed.

Finally just run Installer as one-click new deployment.

Note: you will have to update your search results page to benefit from 2.5 web parts.