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As you may have noticed I have been doing a lot of Sharepoint related work recently. Search is one of the main feature of MOSS, that is one of the most important feature considered by a enterprise. If people have to use a document management system, they have to be able to find their documents easily and a good search is very important.
One of the features I wanted to give to my users was the ability to filter based on some peices of Metadata like the document type or maybe categories. This is very similar to the option that most ecommerce sites have where you can drill down into a product category based on some properties of the product you select. But Sharepoint search does not have something like this by default.
I found a component in Codeplex called Faceted Search which adds this feature to MOSS. This is a set of webparts that allows you to do this with ease. You can actually use any coulmn in the document library to on which facets can be created.
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