September 2009 - Posts

Longitude for SharePoint search now provides Keyword suggestions when users type in search keywords.

This feature is provided on a search box web part by binding it with Longitude’s keyword suggestion WebPart. The keyword suggestions WebPart improves the user experience by suggesting a list of keyword as the user types in letter in the search text box. By default, the Longitude Search site template includes this web part on the default.aspx and results.aspx pages. This can be bound to any search box web part by adding the web part to the page and specifying the title of the bound search textbox web part in the property page (read below)

Below is the description of possible configuration settings that can be used for keyword suggestion.

  • Maximum number of Search Keywords that will be looked at to provide suggestions.
  • Maximum Keyword Suggestion: Specifies the maximum keywords to be suggested on screen
  • SearchBox Title: The title of the searchbox web part to bind to. This field is used when adding the keyword suggestion web part onto a new page.
  • Select Scope: Lets you select which Parametric search scope to use for keyword suggestion
  • Select Sources: Select which sources are used to suggest keywords. .
    • SearchKeywords corresponds to the concepts tracked by Longitude. This functionality is automatic and does not require any configuration.
    • Bestbets: Longitude will reuse the keywords and best bets specified in the site collection
    • Thesaurus: Longitude will look at the search thesaurus file in your sharepoint farm to suggest keywords
    • Parametric: Longitude will reuse an existing parametric search scope to offer filter suggestions: for instance: LastName:Gates

 

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