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 +0000
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";><Columns><Column 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 Date" Description="SOC Date" Type="Microsoft.Office.Server.Search.WebControls.ManagedPropertyFilterGenerator" MetadataThreshold="5" NumberOfFiltersToDisplay="6" MaxNumberOfFilters="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> <id>1</id> <wfsocdate>2013-11-15T13:00:00Z</wfsocdate> <workid></workid> <rank>3111</rank> <title>Title data</title> <author>author data</author> <size>0</size> <path>url data</path> <description></description> <write>21/11/2013</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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