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Fast Search Pipeline Extensibility for Specific Content Source

Since the Pipeline Extensibility is not restricted to any content source and the fact that you do not have a proper API, makes it really hard to work with a specific Content Source. Luckily for us we have a Crawled Property which is mapped to the managed property "ContentSource": < CrawledProperty propertySet ="012357BD-1113-171D-1F25-292BB0B0B0B0" varType ="31" propertyName ="315" /> So you can include this in your extensibility configuration and you...

Getting “Your query is malformed.Please rephrase your query” Error When Using FQL Query Keyword With Double Quotes

When trying to use FQL (Fast Query Language) query keyword with double quotes, for example: body: string( “” hello world ”” , mode=”and”) You’ll get “Your query is malformed.Please rephrase your query” Error.  Since FQL has a problem with double quotes, the trick is to use backslash (\) in front of the quotes,  for example: body: string( “\” hello world \ ”” , mode=”and”) Hope this trick was helpful for you as it was for me.

Clearing items from a specific content source tool

Hi guys, Recently my client needed to remove items from a specific content source. The problem was that neither the standard SharePoint Search nor FS4SP had any support for this scenario ( UI or any object api ) even though it seems like a reasonable task. The only thing the product offers us to deal with this problem is , Index Reset which will clear all the searchable items in your index. a nd in case of FS4SP we will need to call Clear-FASTSearchContentCollection using PowerShell. Of course this...

Creating Content Source based on his content type using SharePoint PowerShell

Hi guys Here's a way to create a content source based on his content type like "SharePoint sites" or "Web Sites" etc... if($myType -eq "Web"){ $webCS=$ssaContent.ContentSources.Create([Microsoft.Office.Server.Search.Administration.WebContentSource], $contentSourceName); $webCS.startAddresses.Add($siteUrl); } if($myType -eq "SharePoint"){ $sharePointCS=$ssaContent.ContentSources.Create([Microsoft.Office.Server.Search.Administration.SharePointContentSource...

Modify the scope name using SharePoint PowerShell

Hi guys, Here's a simple example how to modify the scope's name using SharePoint 2010 Managment Shell write-host -f Yellow "modifing scope Name..." Get-SPEnterpriseSearchQueryScope -Identity "Scope Name" -SearchApplication "SSA Name" | Set-SPEnterpriseSearchQueryScope -Name "My New Scope Name" -AlternateResultsPage http://sp2010/ write-host -f green "Scope Name was successfully modified" That's all Folks :)