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Sep
29
This SharePoint Search enhancement should be deployed by anyone who has a MOSS server. Version 1.1 has just been released incorporating user feedback (mine ;-) to support multi-select choice and lookup fields.
 
There is also a new sorting option (must have been someone else's idea).
 
Check out the online demo http://www.wssdemo.com/Search/Pages/results.aspx?k=search and drill in to a technology/author to see the breadcrumb effect.
 
Leonid Lyublinski has done an awesome job with this. Even the installer (from Mondosoft) is cool.
 
Download it now from CodePlex
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Sep
21
If you haven't heard about this solution then head on over to CodePlex
 
I have added the Technology metadata column to the Search Facets web part on this page http://www.wssdemo.com/Search/Pages/results.aspx?k=sharepoint
 
You may notice that it doesn't work to well with multi-select lookups.
 
If Content Types are used correctly, they would be an ideal candidate for filtering search results. The problem is that adding this field to the web part lists a number of system content types that you would not want to be displayed.

It would be nice if there was another attribute in the <Column> element to specify the include or exclude metadata values from this column (you will understand what I mean when you configure the web part).

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Sep
10
This relates to the Data Form and other web parts that use XSL to render a URL list field (Search Results, Content Query, XML Web Part etc)
 
The URL field is displayed in the create and edit items list pages as 2 fields but is stored as a single string with the url separated from the display string by a comma.
 
To render the hyperlink you should use the following
 

<a href="{substring-before(@Field_x0020_Name, ', ')}">

     <xsl:value-of select="substring-after(@Field_x0020_Name, ', ')"/>

</a>

 

Note: the _x0020_ is how field names that contain spaces are stored.

 

I always try and create my field names abbreviated without spaces and then rename them after they are created which doesn't change the field name (it is a shame the field creation UI doesn't let you specify a new field name and display name separately).

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Sep
8
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<div>A common question inside Microsoft is &quot;What web sites are hosted on MOSS. We keep an internal list of referancable sites but there are 2 larger lists on the Internet.</div>
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<div>I have just restructured my list to group them by industry as the single list of 58 sites was probably making it hard for people to find something that might interest them.</div>
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<div>I also have a rating for each site but I need to convert the view to a data form so that I can represent the rating as a graphic showing stars (assuming there is not a patent on that ;-)</div>
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<div>Some people still insist on using blog's or wiki's to store structured data (I have even seen people simulating the SharePoint feature of placing <font color="#008000"><strong>!</strong>NEW</font> after items in the blog or wiki. Just imagine the overhead of maintaining that content ;-)</div>
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<div>I spent a day trying to get my Silverlight web part updated for the RTM version but it has me stumped. </div>
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<div>I'm working on so many SharePoint projects that I haven't had time to experiment with cool stuff although working on several SharePoint projects that will support tens of thousands of user is cool. </div>
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<div>By far the most enjoyable work for me is working with business users who want to solve problems (although this often results in IT departments cringing when they hear that I've demonstrated a SharePoint solution to the business as that will result in a &quot;when can we have it&quot; demand from the business).</div>
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<div>Never fear, IT Departments, I will be providing some SharePoint architecture/administration training workshops in a couple of months.</div></div>
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