Microsoft SharePoint FAST Search and Visual Best Bets: Better Together
If you have FAST search for SharePoint, you will be familiar with Best Bets. However, do you know about using a separate file or opt in for FS4SP for Visual Best Bets? “How to Do Visual Best Bets for Built-In SharePoint Search” explains why this is an important feature and how to go about enabling it.
Visual Best Bets lets you point to a file with easily editable HTML content to be displayed above the search results. The Visual Web Part loads your image, Silverlight, or Flash content inside an iframe.
But why go the extra mile for a separate file, or opt in for FS4SP for this feature? The Best Bet web part support the showing of keywords and keyword definitions. Keyword definitions are formatted as HTMLl. And a definition with html formatting is in effect a Visual Best Bet. (If you have more than one Visual Best Bet you want to assign to the keyword you would have to add them all to the same html for this to work.)
The article shows, with screenshots, that there is no button on the Add Keyword page to allow editing the HTML directly in the style panel, only an option to format the text for the definition. The article then goes on to show how to use PowerShell to set up your displayed definition for Visual Best Bets.
Smartlogic’s Semaphore Content Intelligence Platform for Microsoft SharePoint includes among its myriad features a Taxonomy Best Bets Web Part that is a URL and description held against the term in the taxonomy to let the ontology owner promote a source of information on the subject searched.
Ken Toth, February 9, 2012
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