Archive for March, 2012

Using the SharedQueryManager to display Relevant Search Parameters in a WebPart

Using the SharedQueryManager to display Relevant Search Parameters in a WebPart

The SharePoint Search is powerful yet very complex. There are a lot of settings and parameters that influence the search results.

For example; did you know that the Culture used in the query is used to determine wordbreaker, stemmer, and thesaures? Search with the wrong Culture and you will get unreliable and strange search results. I have seen it happen at a customer; the documents were all written in Dutch but the search was configured to use the English Culture (en-US: 1033). Finding out why some documents were included in the search result while others are left out can be a challenge as you have to check every search parameter at WebPart level, Site level, and Service Application level.

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Changing the URL of an existing document library or list

Changing the URL of an existing document library or list

When you create a new list or document library in SharePoint the Name you supply for your new list is also used to in the URL. Characters like spaces are replaced by their HTML equivalents (%20). Changing the title of the list afterwards is easy, so is changing the URL of an existing list. You just have to know where to look. This post explains how to change both the title and the URL of existing lists and libraries using several techniques.

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