FC.ImageSearch released! 

I am very happy that we've shipped this product, because I believe that it will mean a big difference for everyone who searches for images in SharePoint. It's not just about the proper layout of thumbnails on the search result page, but also about having the right links with the search results which makes the search experience so much more powerful. And of course, having thumbnails for images stored in any kind of library, or even file shares, is great too.
 
FC.ImageSearch result page
 
My favorite part of the solution though, is the streamlined view of all the search-related administrative information, and the ability to configure the search in one place rather than manually modifying properties scattered across the Central Administration and the library properties. Not to speak about the properties in the advanced search page and the core search result page. It now, literally, takes only seconds to add a library column as a Managed Property, or to add it right away also as a search criteria for the Advanced page.
 
Well, releasing a product is also always the right time to share some credits, which I am happy to do here:
 
Matthew McDermott's 4 part series on configuring image search results somewhat inspired us to turn his suggestion into a real product.
 
 
And of course, the late Patrick Tisseghem deserves a lot of credit too for his book, the webcasts and articles he provided. Patrick, you're missed.
 
Posted on 8-May-10 by Jennifer Neumann
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Tags: Search, Sharepoint, Digital Asset Management
 

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Thursday, 13 May 2010 10:37 by Andy Burns
Cool, it's nice to see something I wrote about in production! I don't suppose you've got any information on the overhead the HTTP module introduced? I've always been curious about about how expensive an HTTPModule would be, but I've never had a chance to load test one. It shouldn't be a problem for something simple like the page redirect - but I'd love to get a ballpark figure someday.
Thursday, 13 May 2010 12:19 by Jennifer
Andy, unfortunately I don't have the data (yet) that you ask for, but I feel pretty safe with what we've done, as the HttpModule first checks 4 objects of the page and page.Request, which are required if it is a "This List" request, not to be null, and then do a check if the Url includes the OSSSearchResults page, and then check if the Request has a QueryString of "ThisList". All this should be fairly small in terms of performance impact. But I'll let you know once we have more specific information. And thanks again for your valuable input on your blog. I owe you one!
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