User Contexts

In SharePoint 2010, people can have multiple properties stored in their profiles. These profile differences can be used to further refine search queries.

FAST Search Server 2010 for SharePoint enables us to give different result set to the different users, based on their profile properties. For example, the Sales Manager and the Software Developer gets different set of results to the query of ECM because the Ask Me About properties are different.

Of course, these differentiations are not configured by default; they have to be created by the administrators. The steps to configure different user contexts are the following:

  1. Go to the Site Collection Settings of your site.
  2. Choose the action FAST Search User Context.
  3. Here you can find ...

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