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I am together with the rest of Mondosoft proud to announce the RTM release of Ontolica for MOSS 2007.
In brief the product simply offers an improved search UI on top of the MOSS 2007 search engine.
Features include:
All the standard search features to be found in MOSS 2007.
Improved Boolean search (AND, OR, NOT)
Wildcard search.
NEAR search.
Consistent search across MOSS and WSS sites. The scopes "This site" and "This list" are now fully configurable and will take the user to the Ontolica search center instead of the WSS search page in the /_layouts folder.
Site dependent search tab configurations. This is a quite pervasive new feature in Ontolica that deserves a posting of its own - I will blog about it soon.
Complete web based configuration UI. No longer any need to mess around with overly complex XML configuration files like you had to in Ontolica for SharePoint 2003. We took some beating for that one over the years ;-)
Federated search. This feature will basically enable you search multiple SSP's from within the same Ontolica search center.
Improved meta data search. Add your own meta data to the advanced search page with a few clicks. Select between a text box, a dropdown box or a lookup dialog for value input.
Display custom properties in search results with a few clicks.
Improved Bets Bets. Ontolica will add support for images and audience targeting.
Configurable action menu on results. Ontolica will include a fully configurable drop down menu on search results. The default actions that ship with Ontolica are:
View Propeties (teleports the user to the document library list item representing the document).
Edit in Microsoft Office Word / PowerPoint / Excel.
Alert Me
Add to My Links
View Details.
Drill Down. Provides the user with a dynamic list of suggestions for refining his or her search. It basically works by analyzing the meta data on the search results. The list of meta data (properties) to provide suggestions for are also fully configurable. Ontolica will in the default configuration be able to provide suggestions for Sites, Authors, File types and Content types.
Quick filters. Will allow you to easily configure some expression based filters that appear as radio buttons below the keyword input field.
Document details page.
Improved people search. Basically nicer thumbnails and more info displayed on each result.
Image search. Ontolica will ship with a preconfigured search tab optimized for image search like you know it from Google / Live Search.
Search result grouping. Group you results by Author, Site, Size, Date or some custom property.
XSLT enabled web parts. All Ontolica search web parts are XSLT enabled to give you full control of the look & feel when required. Even the Ontolica search box in the upper right corner is XSLT enabled. You will, however, only need to worry about modifying the default Ontolica XSLT templates if you have needs that go far beyond common customization scenarios. You can really configure and customize Ontolica to a great extent before you need to worry about XSLT, which I know many of you do not really want to or have time to.
Configurable web parts. All Ontolica web parts have a dedciated configuration page where you can easily configure the various options og the web part.
Customizable search dialog. Create your own custom search forms.
Plugs into the SharePoint feature framework. Ontolica search can be activated/deactivated on the site collection level.
Site template for easy creation of new Ontolica search centers.
Solution based installation process. Ontolica installation and deployment relies on the new solutions framework in Windows SharePoint Services V3.
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