Office SharePoint Server Search keeps results to itself

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Office SharePoint Server Search keeps results to itself

Instead of some information I'm posting a question today..

We've build an application that uses the search functionality to roll up content. Only not all content gets returned in the way you would expect it to.

A description of the problem can be found here:
http://forums.microsoft.com/MSDN/ShowPost.aspx?PostID=2789944&SiteID=1&mode=1

Any suggestions as to what's happening are greatly appreciated.

Print | posted @ Monday, February 04, 2008 4:18 PM

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# re: Office SharePoint Server Search keeps results to itself

by Mirjam at 2/22/2008 8:26 PM

We found the solution!

The problem was caused by the TrimDuplicates function. Even though the content articles that were rolled up weren't the same at all, SharePoint thought they were, so most of them were filtered out because the TrimDuplicates property is set to true by default. After setting the property to false all results were returned as expected.

# re: Office SharePoint Server Search keeps results to itself

by Mirjam at 5/8/2008 3:25 PM

If you use a default Search Results web part you can change the setting by following these steps:
* Go to the Search Center page
* Click on Site Actions and on Edit Page
* Click on the web part context menu
* Click on the Modify Shared Web Part link
* Open the Results Query Options
* The top option is now Remove Duplicate Results. This is checked by default. Uncheck it and press OK.

This should solve your problem by simply using the MOSS UI.

Mirjam