Faceted Search 2.0 for SharePoint/Search Server
Leonid Lyublinski released his second major version of Faceted Search today, this is a great tool that can instantly improve your SharePoint Server/Search Server user experience!
It provide the following benefits:
Grouping search results by facet
Displaying a total number of hits per facet value
Refining search results by facet value
Update of the facet menu based on refined search criteria
Displaying of the search criteria in a Bread Crumbs
Ability to exclude the chosen facet from the search criteria
Flexibility of the Faceted search configuration and its consistency with MOSS administration
and in version 2, he enhanced:
Multi- thread processing. 1st thread runs for up to 500 facets synchronously, while the 2nd thread is running asynchronously against up to ~30,000 facets
Client side refresh (not AJAX based) that updates only Facets web part w/o page refresh
Web part connection to pass Facet Settings to the Bread Crumbs
Extended facet schema now supports:
- Facet icons. Default icon per Facet name complimented by an icon per Facet value
- Friendly names for facet values
- Built-in wild-card match, e.g. FileExtension=”ASPX?ID%” will match all “ASPX?ID=” records (useful for exclusions)
- Exclusions. Allow exclude facet when values match pattern
- Improved search syntax, added supports for sentences and quoted phrases
I would suggest that everyone who use SharePoint and Search Server to install this open source and free tools, it's really great.
https://www.codeplex.com/FacetedSearch
Live demo(lower right corner)