Hey,
In case this is of interest to anyone else, the issue was that the date refiner
was set to be a deep refiner. Unchecking this box allowed it to be used in the
refinement panel like Created
Cheers
Nigel
From: nigel_wither...@hotmail.com
To: ozmoss@ozmoss.com; conrad.grob...@gmail.com
Subject: Custom DateTime Search Refiner (FAST SP2010)
Date: Thu, 21 Nov 2013 01:03:39 +
Hey all,
Hoping someone can help me out there
We are attempting to create a DateTime search refiner for a custom site column,
with the refiner acting exactly as the ootb Modified Date refiner does - i.e.
has refining options like last week, last month, last 6 months etc.
To do this I have:
- Created a Managed Property - set as DateTime, mapping the crawled property
for my custom site column, checked the sort, refine and deep refine options-
Performed a full crawl- Added the managed property to the Search core results
fetched properties:
root xmlns:xsi=http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema-instance;ColumnsColumn
Name=wfsocdate/Column Name=wfnsoimageurl/Column
Name=wfretailer/Column Name=wfjdebusinessunit/Column
Name=wfnsoretailergroup/Column Name=wfnsofeature/Column
Name=WorkId/Column Name=Rank/Column Name=Title/Column
Name=Author/Column Name=Size/Column Name=Path/Column
Name=Description/Column Name=Write/Column Name=SiteName/Column
Name=CollapsingStatus/Column Name=HitHighlightedSummary/Column
Name=HitHighlightedProperties/Column Name=ContentClass/Column
Name=IsDocument/Column Name=PictureThumbnailURL/Column
Name=Url/Column Name=ServerRedirectedUrl/Column
Name=FileExtension/Column Name=SpSiteUrl/Column
Name=docvector/Column Name=fcocount/Column Name=fcoid/Column
Name=PictureHeight/Column Name=PictureWidth//Columns/root
- Modified the Refiner web parts XML to render the new filter:
Category Title=SOC DateDescription=SOC Date
Type=Microsoft.Office.Server.Search.WebControls.ManagedPropertyFilterGenerator
MetadataThreshold=5
NumberOfFiltersToDisplay=6MaxNumberOfFilters=0
SortBy=Custom ShowMoreLink=True
MappedProperty=wfsocdate MoreLinkText=show more
LessLinkText=show fewer CustomFilters
MappingType=RangeMapping DataType=Date ValueReference=Relative
ShowAllInMore=False CustomFilter CustomValue=Past 24
Hours OriginalValue-1../OriginalValue
/CustomFilter CustomFilter CustomValue=Past
Week OriginalValue-7../OriginalValue
/CustomFilter CustomFilter CustomValue=Past Month
OriginalValue-30../OriginalValue
/CustomFilter CustomFilter CustomValue=Past Six Months
OriginalValue-183../OriginalValue
/CustomFilter CustomFilter CustomValue=Past Year
OriginalValue-365../OriginalValue
/CustomFilter CustomFilter CustomValue=Earlier
OriginalValue..-365/OriginalValue
/CustomFilter /CustomFilters/Category
However the refiner never appears. I changed the SearchResults XSLT to show the
complete data being brought back for each result item, and found that the
difference between my custom date column and the created date column (with
managed metadata property name Write) is that my date is in UTC format, where
the Write date is not:
Result id1/id wfsocdate2013-11-15T13:00:00Z/wfsocdate
workid/workid rank3111/rank titleTitle data/title
authorauthor data/author size0/size pathurl data/path
description/description write21/11/2013/write
[stuff removed]
/Result
Can anyone confirm that this is the issue with my refiner, and if so how do I
get the indexer to crawl the date in the same format as the Write date? Do I
need to do this myself with the results XSLT? If I do, how will this work with
the refiner (I assume the refiner is working with the data returned in the
managed property, not the transformed data shown in the results)?
Many thanks
Nigel
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