While troubleshooting search related issues, it sometimes requires me to quickly find very specific type of document. I find property based search very handy and useful in such scenarios. As an example, searching for "fileextension:pdf" will...
I have been working with this product called Longitude for sharepoint for some time now. I must say this is a great product that extends sharepoint search capabilities. It lets users preview documents without the necessity to download them as shown: Some...
We, at times, are very specific about the results returned in search. As an example, if you are searching a document workspace, you are most concerned with documents and to you, most of the other items like pages, lists, sites etc that are returned are...
What are Scopes? How to Use? Scopes are a logical view on index. With scope, a section of the index can be defined effectively ahead of the query time based on some rules and users can execute search query against that specific scope only. To demostrate...