I am doing a webcast on the 11/11/11 about effective requirements gathering for search in SharePoint 2010. Join me to learn how to gather requirements that are going to make a tangible difference to your SharePoint search experience.
Some tips and tricks to ensure that your search refiners are shown when a search is triggered in SharePoint 2010.
Details how the Accuracy Index is used to generate search refiners. Must read if you are working with the refinement panel
Details how to refine on Content Types in SharePoint 2010 and some additional information on why you can’t.
Details how to create custom refinement filters in SharePoint 2010 including absolute and relative range and value refiners.
Shows how you can show percentages of returned results rather than counts in the search refinement panel in SharePoint 2010.
This shows how you can show refiner counts on a SharePoint 2010 search page, much like the functionality that FAST search offers!
How to add search refiners to SharePoint 2010 refinement panel.
When adding new refiners users often change the MetadataThreshold value which can cause some problems, most commonly metadata not appearing when it should on the refinement panel. You should understand what this setting does and some of the pitfalls that can occur
The refinement panel is one of the most powerful web parts for search in SharePoint 2010. Learn what the various options do such as controlling the display of refiners and some common error and misconceptions. How do you make sure that you refiner counts are correct or make sure that all refiners display? This article details how and be sure to check out our other Refinement Panel articles as well.
