SharePoint How To: Search Property Filters in SharePoint Server 2007
July 29, 2008
Joel Krist, Akona Consulting, wrote “Using Enterprise Search Property Filters in SharePoint Server 2007.” The document is here. My routine scan of MSDN snagged a link to this 5,000 word document.
A property filter in SharePoint means a software gizmo that narrows the focus of key word search. Property filters allow you to use search scopes and managed properties to focus your searches and to handle duplicates results collapsing. Filters are not something the user slaps on a query. In SharePoint land, filters are assigned within the context of a SharePoint site by using the enterprise search query object model. You can also apply a filter remotely from outside the context of Office SharePoint Server by using the enterprise search query Web service.
If these terms don’t mean anything to you, you won’t find this MSDN document too helpful. If the buzzwords give you a kick like Jolt Cola, then you will benefit from Mr. Krist’s write up. If you run aground, you can contact Akona here, and the firm’s wizards will come to your rescue. The site plays welcoming music, so adjust your speakers before you navigate to Akona Web site.
This is a useful write up, and it includes screen shots. Mr. Krist also clarifies some of the Scope wackiness that the addled geese at Beyond Search had to figure out before we had the Akona roadmap. A happy quack to Mr. Krist. An annoyed honk to the SharePoint team for making a needed function unnecessarily opaque. I mean 5,000 words pages to explain a property filter. A harried SharePoint administrator could fall out of love with Microsoft with this type of set up procedure.
Stephen Arnold, July 29, 2008
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