Add, remove and display Visual Best Bets for a keyword by using Windows PowerShell (FAST Search Server 2010 for SharePoint)
Applies to: FAST Search Server 2010
Note
This article describes how to manage Visual Best Bets by using Windows PowerShell. For information about how to manage Visual Best Bets by using the graphical user interface, see Manage FAST Search keywords (Office.com).
In this article the following PowerShell procedures are described:
Add a Visual Best Bet to a keyword
Add multiple Visual Best Bets to a keyword
Remove a Visual Best Bet from a keyword
Remove all Visual Best Bets from a keyword
Add a global Visual Best Bet
Add multiple global Visual Best Bets
Remove a global Visual Best Bet
Remove all global Visual Best Bets
Display all Visual Best Bets
Add a Visual Best Bet to a keyword
Verify that you meet the following minimum requirements: You are a member of the FASTSearchAdministrators local group on the computer where FAST Search Server 2010 for SharePoint is installed.
On the Start menu, click All Programs.
Click Microsoft FAST Search Server 2010 for SharePoint.
Click Microsoft FAST Search Server 2010 for SharePoint shell.
At the Windows PowerShell command prompt, get all search setting groups:
Get-FASTSearchSearchSettingGroup >>Name : 9c65a55f-eafc-451d-b0f5-56fbed465141 >>Description : >>Id : 1 >>LastChanged : 10/19/2010 9:04:46 AM
Add a Visual Best Bet to a keyword:
$searchSettingGroup = Get-FASTSearchSearchSettingGroup -Name "<SearchSettingGroupName>" $keyword = $searchSettingGroup.Keywords.GetKeyword("<KeywordTerm>") $uri = New-Object -TypeName System.Uri -ArgumentList "<URI>" $visualBestBet = $keyword.AddFeaturedContent("<VisualBestBetName>") $visualBestBet.Uri = $uri
Where:
<SearchSettingGroupName> is the name of an existing search setting group.
<KeywordTerm> is the keyword term string name of an existing keyword.
<URI> is the URI to the content of the Visual Best Bet.
<VisualBestBetName> is the title of the Visual Best Bet to be added.
See also
Keyword.AddFeaturedContent Method
Get-FASTSearchSearchSettingGroup
Add multiple Visual Best Bets to a keyword
Verify that you meet the following minimum requirements: You are a member of the FASTSearchAdministrators local group on the computer where FAST Search Server 2010 for SharePoint is installed.
On the Start menu, click All Programs.
Click Microsoft FAST Search Server 2010 for SharePoint.
Click Microsoft FAST Search Server 2010 for SharePoint shell.
At the Windows PowerShell command prompt, create a collection of existing Visual Best Bets that you want to add:
$visualBestBetsToBeAdded = @("<VisualBestBet1>", "<VisualBestBet2>", "<VisualBestBet3>", "<VisualBestBet4>")
Where:
- <VisualBestBet 1-4> are the Visual Best Bets that you want to add.
Get all search setting groups:
Get-FASTSearchSearchSettingGroup >>Name : 9c65a55f-eafc-451d-b0f5-56fbed465141 >>Description : >>Id : 1 >>LastChanged : 10/19/2010 9:04:46 AM
Add the collection of Visual Best Bets to a keyword:
$searchSettingGroup = Get-FASTSearchSearchSettingGroup -Name "<SearchSettingGroupName>" $keyword = $searchSettingGroup.Keywords.GetKeyword("<KeywordTerm>") foreach($visualBestBetToBeAdded in <$visualBestBetsToBeAdded>) {$keyword.AddFeaturedContent($visualBestBetToBeAdded)}
Where:
<SearchSettingGroupName> is the name of an existing search setting group.
<KeywordTerm> is the keyword term string name of an existing keyword.
<$visualBestBetsToBeAdded> is an existing variable that contains an existing array or collection of strings specifying the names of the existing Visual Best Bets to be added.
See also
FeaturedContentCollection Interface
Keyword.AddFeaturedContent Method
Get-FASTSearchSearchSettingGroup
Remove a Visual Best Bet from a keyword
Verify that you meet the following minimum requirements: You are a member of the FASTSearchAdministrators local group on the computer where FAST Search Server 2010 for SharePoint is installed.
On the Start menu, click All Programs.
Click Microsoft FAST Search Server 2010 for SharePoint.
Click Microsoft FAST Search Server 2010 for SharePoint shell.
At the Windows PowerShell command prompt, get all search setting groups:
Get-FASTSearchSearchSettingGroup >>Name : 9c65a55f-eafc-451d-b0f5-56fbed465141 >>Description : >>Id : 1 >>LastChanged : 10/19/2010 9:04:46 AM
Remove a Visual Best Bets from a keyword:
$searchSettingGroup = Get-FASTSearchSearchSettingGroup -Name "<SearchSettingGroupName>" $keyword = $searchSettingGroup.Keywords.GetKeyword("<KeywordTerm>") $keyword.RemoveFeaturedContent("<VisualBestBetName>")
Where:
<SearchSettingGroupName> is the name of an existing search setting group.
<KeywordTerm> is the keyword term string name of an existing keyword.
<VisualBestBetName> is the name of the Visual Best Bet to be removed.
See also
Keyword.RemoveFeaturedContent Method
Get-FASTSearchSearchSettingGroup
Remove all Visual Best Bets from a keyword
Verify that you meet the following minimum requirements: You are a member of the FASTSearchAdministrators local group on the computer where FAST Search Server 2010 for SharePoint is installed.
On the Start menu, click All Programs.
Click Microsoft FAST Search Server 2010 for SharePoint.
Click Microsoft FAST Search Server 2010 for SharePoint shell.
At the Windows PowerShell command prompt, get all search setting groups:
Get-FASTSearchSearchSettingGroup >>Name : 9c65a55f-eafc-451d-b0f5-56fbed465141 >>Description : >>Id : 1 >>LastChanged : 10/19/2010 9:04:46 AM
Remove all Visual Best Bets from a keyword:
$searchSettingGroup = Get-FASTSearchSearchSettingGroup -Name "<SearchSettingGroupName>" $keyword = $searchSettingGroup.Keywords.GetKeyword("<KeywordTerm>") $keyword.FeaturedContent.Clear()
Where:
<SearchSettingGroupName> is the name of an existing search setting group.
<KeywordTerm> is the keyword term string name of an existing keyword.
See also
Microsoft.SharePoint.Search.Extended.Administration.Keywords Namespace
Get-FASTSearchSearchSettingGroup
Add a global Visual Best Bet
Verify that you meet the following minimum requirements: You are a member of the FASTSearchAdministrators local group on the computer where FAST Search Server 2010 for SharePoint is installed.
On the Start menu, click All Programs.
Click Microsoft FAST Search Server 2010 for SharePoint.
Click Microsoft FAST Search Server 2010 for SharePoint shell.
At the Windows PowerShell command prompt, get all search setting groups:
Get-FASTSearchSearchSettingGroup >>Name : 9c65a55f-eafc-451d-b0f5-56fbed465141 >>Description : >>Id : 1 >>LastChanged : 10/19/2010 9:04:46 AM
Add a global Visual Best Bet:
$searchSettingGroup = Get-FASTSearchSearchSettingGroup -Name "<SearchSettingGroupName>" $searchSettingGroup.FeaturedContentWithoutKeyword.AddFeaturedContent("<GlobalVisualBestBetName>")
Where:
<SearchSettingGroupName> is the name of an existing search setting group.
<GlobalVisualBestBetName> is the title of the global Visual Best Bet to be added.
See also
Microsoft.SharePoint.Search.Extended.Administration.Keywords Namespace
Get-FASTSearchSearchSettingGroup
Add multiple global Visual Best Bets
Verify that you meet the following minimum requirements: You are a member of the FASTSearchAdministrators local group on the computer where FAST Search Server 2010 for SharePoint is installed.
On the Start menu, click All Programs.
Click Microsoft FAST Search Server 2010 for SharePoint.
Click Microsoft FAST Search Server 2010 for SharePoint shell.
At the Windows PowerShell command prompt, create a collection of existing global Visual Best Bets that you want to add:
$globalVisualBestBetsToBeAdded = @("<GlobalVisualBestBet1>", "<GlobalVisualBestBet2>", "<GlobalVisualBestBet3>", "<GlobalVisualBestBet4>")
Where:
- <GlobalVisualBestBet 1-4> are the global Visual Best Bets that you want to add.
Get all search setting groups:
Get-FASTSearchSearchSettingGroup >>Name : 9c65a55f-eafc-451d-b0f5-56fbed465141 >>Description : >>Id : 1 >>LastChanged : 10/19/2010 9:04:46 AM
Add the collection of global Visual Best Bets:
$searchSettingGroup = Get-FASTSearchSearchSettingGroup -Name "<SearchSettingGroupName>" foreach ($globalVisualBestBetToBeAdded in <$globalVisualBestBetsToBeAdd>) { $searchSettingGroup.FeaturedContentWithoutKeyword.AddFeaturedContent( $globalVisualBestBetToBeAdded ) }
Where:
<SearchSettingGroupName> is the name of an existing search setting group.
<$globalVisualBestBetsToBeAdded> is an existing variable that contains an existing array or collection of strings specifying the names of the existing global Visual Best Bets to be added.
See also
Microsoft.SharePoint.Search.Extended.Administration.Keywords Namespace
Get-FASTSearchSearchSettingGroup
Remove a global Visual Best Bet
Verify that you meet the following minimum requirements: You are a member of the FASTSearchAdministrators local group on the computer where FAST Search Server 2010 for SharePoint is installed.
On the Start menu, click All Programs.
Click Microsoft FAST Search Server 2010 for SharePoint.
Click Microsoft FAST Search Server 2010 for SharePoint shell.
At the Windows PowerShell command prompt, get all search setting groups:
Get-FASTSearchSearchSettingGroup >>Name : 9c65a55f-eafc-451d-b0f5-56fbed465141 >>Description : >>Id : 1 >>LastChanged : 10/19/2010 9:04:46 AM
Remove a global Visual Best Bets:
$searchSettingGroup = Get-FASTSearchSearchSettingGroup -Name "<SearchSettingGroupName>" $searchSettingGroup.FeaturedContentWithoutKeyword.RemoveFeaturedContent("<GlobalVisualBestBetName>")
Where:
<SearchSettingGroupName> is the name of an existing search setting group.
<GlobalVisualBestBetName> is the name of the global Visual Best Bet to be removed.
See also
Microsoft.SharePoint.Search.Extended.Administration.Keywords Namespace
Get-FASTSearchSearchSettingGroup
Remove all global Visual Best Bets
Verify that you meet the following minimum requirements: You are a member of the FASTSearchAdministrators local group on the computer where FAST Search Server 2010 for SharePoint is installed.
On the Start menu, click All Programs.
Click Microsoft FAST Search Server 2010 for SharePoint.
Click Microsoft FAST Search Server 2010 for SharePoint shell.
At the Windows PowerShell command prompt, get all search setting groups:
Get-FASTSearchSearchSettingGroup >>Name : 9c65a55f-eafc-451d-b0f5-56fbed465141 >>Description : >>Id : 1 >>LastChanged : 10/19/2010 9:04:46 AM
Remove all global Visual Best Bets:
$searchSettingGroup = Get-FASTSearchSearchSettingGroup -Name "<SearchSettingGroupName>" $searchSettingGroup.FeaturedContentWithoutKeyword.Clear()
Where:
- <SearchSettingGroupName> is the name of an existing search setting group.
See also
Microsoft.SharePoint.Search.Extended.Administration.Keywords Namespace
Get-FASTSearchSearchSettingGroup
Display all Visual Best Bets
Verify that you meet the following minimum requirements: You are a member of the FASTSearchAdministrators local group on the computer where FAST Search Server 2010 for SharePoint is installed.
On the Start menu, click All Programs.
Click Microsoft FAST Search Server 2010 for SharePoint.
Click Microsoft FAST Search Server 2010 for SharePoint shell.
At the Windows PowerShell command prompt, get all search setting groups:
Get-FASTSearchSearchSettingGroup >>Name : 9c65a55f-eafc-451d-b0f5-56fbed465141 >>Description : >>Id : 1 >>LastChanged : 10/19/2010 9:04:46 AM
Display all Visual Best Bets:
$searchSettingGroup = Get-FASTSearchSearchSettingGroup -Name "<SearchSettingGroupName>" $searchSettingGroup.FeaturedContent
Where:
- <SearchSettingGroupName> is the name of an existing search setting group.