SharePoint WebParts for FAST ESP

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As an early step towards making FAST ESP search capabilities interoperable with SharePoint, a set of installable Web parts for integrating FAST ESP and SharePoint have been made available in Codeplex.

With this package, SharePoint administrators can quickly build ESP-based search sites in SharePoint Server 2007 by simply dropping in and configuring the appropriate Web parts.

You can download the same at :

https://espwebparts.codeplex.com/

List of available Webparts:

Web Part

Description

1

ESP Search Config

ESP Search Config is a hidden Web part for configuring the ESP connection, selecting the appropriate search view, and setting other search access parameters. You will need one ESP Search Config Web part for each search group.

2

ESP Search Box

ESP Search Box provides an input box for submitting a search query.

3

ESP Did You Mean

ESP Did You Mean analyzes the search query and returns the appropriate information. The output depends on the selected spellchecking mode:

• Suggest will return a suggestion if the query was misspelled.

• Modification will automatically resubmit the query and show the changed query term(s).

4

ESP Result List

ESP Result List displays the set of results found as a list.

5

ESP Search Statistics

ESP Search Statistics displays information such as the response time for the current query, the number of results returned, and the number of pages.

6

ESP Search Action

ESP Search Action displays links for actions that can be performed on the result set. Currently, sorting of fields/rank profiles is the only action supported.

7

ESP Search Pagination

ESP Search Pagination is used to page the search results.

8

ESP Navigator

ESP Navigator displays a single navigator for the search result set. This provides an aggregation of the values for a particular field and can be used to refine the search result set.

9

ESP Navigators

ESP Navigators displays all navigators returned for the current search result.

10

ESP Breadcrumb

ESP Breadcrumb displays the search term(s) and list of navigators used to obtain the current result set