FAST Search on user profile propeprties

Question

I have a requirement for FQL search on SharePoint User Profile (SharePoint 2013). I can't use KQL since it doesnt do 'contains' searches.

I created a copy of the 'Local People Results' result source and set the Query Transform as:

{?andnot({searchTerms},filter(contentclass:"urn:content-class:SPSPeople*"))}

Fast search seems to be working.

I set the 'Type' field in the result source as 'SharePoint Search Results' and I am getting results for content in SharePoint site. But the results don't contain people. The query I used is Author:string("shaju").

But I set the Type to 'People Search Results' and don't get any results at all. The query I am using here is FirstName:string("shaju"). Firstname is a userprofile property.

I removed the QueryTransform tried a query in KQL(FirstName:shaju) and it works.any ideas on why FAST search is not providing results for people(user profile)?

Answer 1

People results are stored in the SharePoint index, not in the FS4SP index. Hence FQL will not work for people queries.

And KQL does do contains. Property:value is contains while Property=value is equals.

Author:Mikael

will return both "Mikael Svenson" as well as "Mr Mikael". Should work for FirstName as well I believe.