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Ontolica Solves Wildcard Search in MOSS 2007
By Jeff Tincher
Source: FotoliaOk, how many of you out there have created a MOSS Search Center Site to find out that when you are done you AND your users cannot search using wildcards or partial names? I know I was one of them! I am working on a solution right now with one of our customers to migrate their old Company Phone Directory and use SharePoint Search features to find the employees information. The original phone directory was difficult to manage and update, the new solution was to build Custom SharePoint Lists for each department and populate those lists with required information such as, first name, last name, email, work phone, mobile phone, department, title, and a few others.
Take One
The first take on this project I set up a Search Center and had everything working, someone would search for an employee by name, title or department and BANG up comes the information. Well….sort of. The downside was what is the user searching for someone didn’t know how to fully spell a last name, like Koeningsberg for example. If they tried to do, ‘Koen’ nothing showed in the results. Hmm, why is that? Well there is no out-of-the-box wildcard search for MOSS. Not good.
Of course I searched on different solutions for searching on partial names in the search field. One potential solution was to create our own custom webpart that would interact with the internals of SharePoint. Nope. Not going to mess with that, especially after all the blog articles said, “It’s best not to mess with your own webpart and screw up your MOSS install”.
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For those of you using SharePoint, here is a link over to what I find very interesting and could be helpful for some organizations. With social web sites become more popular and people looking at user ratings and tags this solution created by two interns at Tam Tam has great potential in your SharePoint environment. Sure, SharePoint can tag posts, documents and what else you want, but here is the perks of Tam Tam’s new solution…
This solution however offers a rich user experience of those mechanisms, personalized (this is very cool) and full integration with SharePoint search and Ontolica search!
Here are a couple of screenshots from the original blog post.
As of this post, there is no release of this add-on. Please check back on our blog and I’ll report any news about this solution.
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