Microsoft SharePoint Suggestions
March 16, 2011
Here’s a useful item for you SharePoint fans and consultants. The write up “Tools and Web Parts for SharePoint 2007 and 2010” explains Web parts. This is Microsoft speak for code gadgets. What makes the article useful is that it provides a succinct summary of how a programmer can set up SharePoint to make available more suggestions to a user for his/her query. The key point is:
The only way to add more words to the suggestion feature is using a PowerShell script to add them and run the job manually or with the script. This tool was created to handle all words of suggestions in each Search Services Applications created in SharePoint 2010.
The article has a link to download the tool, as well as an explanation and ten images to explain how to use it. Web parts or web widgets can add needed functionality. Our question, “Why isn’t a more robust suggestion tool included with SharePoint?” We think the answer is that Microsoft likes to leave third parties with opportunities to earn money from the millions of SharePoint licensees. The tactic, in my opinion, is intentional incompleteness.
Stephen E Arnold, March 15, 2011
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