Overview of FAST Spatial Search Toolkit for FAST Search Server 2010 for SharePoint.

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Developing a Custom
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Bronze Sezai Komur
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2. Agenda
• Overview of customisation options.
• Demo of the FAST Spatial Search Center.
• Solution Overview.
– Index Schema Design
– Custom FAST Search Center Site Definition
– Custom SearchBoxEx
– Custom CoreResultsWebPart
– Integrating a Silverlight into the Search Center
– Calling Search Web Services from Silverlight
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3. Custom Solution Options with FS4SP
• Develop custom web parts that call the
search object model (not covered).
• Customising a FAST Search Center site
– Configuring existing web parts
– Subclassing ootb web parts.
– Developing new web parts.
• Developing a custom application that queries
the search web services.
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4. Index Schema Design
• The search index is your data layer.
• Create Managed Properties that you plan to
use for your search solution.
• Map the managed properties to crawled
properties
• You can map similar properties across
multiple systems to common managed
properties
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8. Demo
FAST SPATIAL SEARCH CENTER
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9. Creating a Custom Site Definition
• Copy the OOTB site definition you want to
base your site definition on.
• Replace existing web part references in
onet.xml with your own web part references.
• Include any custom files
– .xap, pages based on new page layouts etc.
• Include changes to web part properties, such
as coreresultswebpart XSLT.
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11. Code Demo
VISUAL STUDIO SOLUTION &
CUSTOM SITE DEFINITION OVERVIEW
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12. Overriding GoSearch Javascript
• Redirecting to results.aspx is performed with
Javascript.
• If your search solution includes extra search
parameters ensure these are passed in as
query string parameters.
• To change the behaviour of GoSearch
Javascript, create a web part that inherits
from SearchBoxEx to override Javascript.
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13. Code Demo
CUSTOM SEARCHBOXEX & SEARCH
JAVASCRIPT
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14. Custom CoreResultsWebPart
• CoreResultsWebPart does the querying work
and results rendering via XSLT. Not straight
forward to override it with custom FQL
• Develop a custom CoreResultsDatasource
and CoreResultsDatasourceView class.
• Enable FASTSearchRuntime.EnableFQL = true
in CoreResultsDatasourceView to allow
this.FixedQuery = “Your FQL”
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15. http://neganov.blogspot.com/2011/01/extending-
coreresultswebpart-to-handle.html
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16. Code Demo
CUSTOM CORERESULTSWEBPART
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17. Integrating Silverlight
into a FAST Search Center
• Silverlight can read data out of HTML
Elements on the page, and update HTML on
the page.
• Silverlight methods can be called from
Javascript run on the page.
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18. HTML Bridge: Interaction Between
HTML and Managed Code
http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/cc645076(v=vs.95).aspx
In Silverlight, the HTML Bridge is an integrated set of types and methods that
enable you to do the following:
• Expose complete managed types to JavaScript for scripting.
• Expose individual methods of managed types to JavaScript for scripting.
• Pass managed types as parameters to JavaScript functions and objects.
• Return managed types from JavaScript.
• Assign managed types as event handlers, which are callable from
JavaScript.
• Call JavaScript event handlers from managed types.
• Control various security aspects of your Silverlight-based application.
• In addition, the HTML Bridge provides managed containers for Document
Object Model (DOM) elements such as window, document, and standard
HTML elements.
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19. Code Demo
SILVERLIGHT INTEGRATION WITH
HTML & JAVASCRIPT
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20. Calling the Search Web Services from
A Silverlight Application
• The FAST Search Center might not provide
the search experience you’re after.
• You can implement a more custom search
experience by calling the Search Web
Services.
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21. Calling the Search Web Services from
A Silverlight Application
• The FAST Search Center might not provide
the search experience you’re after.
• You can implement a more custom search
experience by calling the Search Web
Services at /_vti_bin/Search.asmx
• Using the Query Web Service
http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-
us/library/ee872313.aspx
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22. Code Demo
CALLING THE SEARCH WEB
SERVICES FROM SILVERLIGHT
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23. SP Saturday Slide Template Example
QUESTION AND ANSWER
Email Sezai: sharepointsezai@gmail.com
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24. Related Links
• Sezai’s Blog - FAST Spatial Search Toolkit v1.0
http://sharepoint-sezai-moss-2007.blogspot.com/2011/10/fast-
spatial-search-toolkit-v10-search.html
• Extending CoreResultsWebPart to Handle Search Queries Written
in FAST Query Language
http://neganov.blogspot.com/2011/01/extending-
coreresultswebpart-to-handle.html
• Using the Query Web Service
http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/ee872313.aspx
• HTML Bridge – Silverlight, HTML & Javascript Integration
http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/cc645076(v=vs.95).aspx
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