We recently deployed Ontolica into a MOSS environment that
already had a heavily customised MOSS search configuration. The
environment makes heavy use of property based searches in the form
of [managedproperty]:[searchterm].
After creating a new search centre and replicating all our
existing search functionality in the Ontolica web parts we ran into
a problem.
When using the property search syntax in Ontolica we get no
results with the message "Searching the property [managedproperty]
is not supported in the Wildcard edition of Ontolica".
Looking at the product matrix (
http://www.ontolica.com/upload/pdf/factsheets/OntolicaSearch2007_Matrix.pdf)
we should be able to retain all existing features of standard MOSS
2007. This does not seem to be the case.
Using Ontolica Wildcard actually REMOVES standard MOSS search
functionality.
I think Ontolica wildcard is a great product and its fantastic
that they have made this component completely free. At a loss here
as it basically removes 95% of the situations where we would employ
the product.
I sent an email to the support team and they confirmed that this
was the case:
"The wildcard license does generally not support the displaying
of custom properties in search results"