Discover several ways to search SharePoint efficiently, searching lists, sites, and even entire SharePoint installations.
by Sahil Malik
July 25, 2008
harePoint is a powerful platform that gives you a very easy-to-setup place in which to put data. But you know what happens when you have a tool like SharePoint? People use it! And then, after people have put their data in, they want to retrieve it—in all sorts of weird ways. Putting in data is only half the story (and I'd argue, the easier part). It's fetching the data in a meaningful and targeted manner that separates the wheat from the chaff.
Business users can be amazing. They like to hit us with scenarios we could not have imagined in our wildest dreams, particularly after we thought we had all the requirements figured out. Much to my chagrin, I have heard the following, "Oh yeah, that is a new requirement!" So it's important that developers' tools allow them the agility and flexibility to satisfy such needs and changing requirements.
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harePoint is a powerful platform that gives you a very easy-to-setup place in which to put data. But you know what happens when you have a tool like SharePoint? People use it! And then, after people have put their data in, they want to retrieve it—in all sorts of weird ways. Putting in data is only half the story (and I'd argue, the easier part). It's fetching the data in a meaningful and targeted manner that separates the wheat from the chaff.
