Customizing the FAST Search User Interface

The FAST Search Center, as shown in Figure 8.14, provides a rich user interface for accessing FAST Search Server capabilities from SharePoint 2010. The main parts of the FAST search results page are as follows:

• Search Box, with capability of suggestions while typing.

• Results set, with document thumbnails, PowerPoint previews, View in Browser links for all documents, and Similar Results link for all result.

• A Refinement Panel with deep refiners.

• Related Searches, People Matches, and Federated Results.

Figure 8.14. FAST Search Center.

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