csegSearchWebPart
csegSearch – Adds google type searches to your Sharepoint site – boolean searches
This webpart allows to make searches GOOGLE type in sharepoint.
In the first place I would like to thank Mattiew Cosier since to a large extent I have been inspired by his work. And Gustavo to test the webpart in your systems.
This webpart is a subclass of the webpart included in sharepoint called SearchResults. Baically, csegSearch transforms the keywords and gives them the correct syntax to be used with the predicate CONTAINS of the Sharepoint searches..
Being a subclass of SearchResults we can interchange them and continue using the adavanced searches and the management searches.
Installation
This webpart settles like a normal webpart..
Stsadm -o addwppack -filename csegSearchWebPart.cab \[ -globalinstall -force \]**
Once installed we need to modify the search.aspx page and to change webpart SearchResults by csegSearch (see installation video)
In the properties of csegSearch, we will change the name of the list by “sch” in order to use advanced search management (sort and group)
Operation
Webpart will transform the keywords into sharepoint joining the words with the nexus AND as in google. Internally csegSearch uses a parser engine that tries to correct the syntax of queries.
- Supports AND, OR and NOT operators (also short form &,| and !)
- Supports NEAR operator
- Supports Wildcars and brackets
- Supports Special keywords (site and file)
- Hilights results.
Special keywords
They are added to the main query using AND operator. And always are considered using the nexus OR among them. Special keywords only works with simple queries.
site: file:
Both accept wildcards ej: site:Demo*, file:*.doc
Custom properties
Debug query: If checked show the current query_._ Debug keywords: If checked show the keywords after parser it. Query where part: Where part used in queries, you can modify it to use a custom where part. Open links in a new window: If checked when click a result its show in a new window. Colorize color: Name of the color to hilights results (red, blue etc…) if empty not colorize. Go to folder text: Query results show a new button under documents to go to the folder of document this is the text of button, if empty this button is not showed.
Sample Queries
| Input Keywords | Result Query |
|---|---|
| red car | “red” AND “car” |
| “red car” | “red car” |
| red car big | “red” AND “car” AND “big” |
| red car or big | “red” AND “car” OR “big” |
| red (car or moto) | “red” AND (“car” OR “moto”) |
| red car not big | (“red” AND “car”) AND NOT “big” |
| red and and car | “red” AND “car” |
| red car or not big | “red” AND “car” OR “big” |
| red car site:Demo* site:Test* file:doc | “red” AND “car” AND (Site contains Demo* OR Site contains Test*) AND file contains doc |
I wait for your commentaries and suggestions for future versions First, once again many thanks to all you for your kind commentaries about csegRollUp.
Sorry for being so late but I have had a lot of work last days, and nights are so short…
Fixes
For users with problems in sites with ports diferents to 80, I must say that all tests of this new version have been done with a server installed in the port 1000 and all them have run correctly.
For users with problems as “not in the configuration database” they are using only wss sites, now csegRollUp runs correctly.
Remember that the field and list separator is comma ‘,’