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Federated search is a feature in Shareoint 2010, where results from external sites, other sharepoint farms, Local sites in same farm can be queried and results be displayed. On how to configure federated search, refer http://blogs.msdn.com/b/sharepoint__cloud/archive/2012/03/12/configure-federated-search-to-get-results-from-remote-another-sharepoint-2010-farm.aspx Consider a federated search webpart in farm B, where the search results are from Farm A. To know the usage of the federated search, will have to check the reports in source farm (Farm A). Go to central admin - Application Management - Manage Service Application - Click on the search service application On the left pane, Under Reports, click on Web Analytics report The usage report would show the total usage report of the search service application Say the search service application is used by a site collection and also by the federated search So, say it shows 1000 No of queries for the past 30 days. Site coll

A quick and easy way to display a Thank you message at the end of survey for submitting the form. At the end of last question, insert a page breaker. After the page breaker, add the Thank you message as a question, and select the type Single line of text. Enter the default value as "Internal". Go to the survey form and click on Respond to Survey. Click Next and in the Editform url in the browser, append &ToolPaneView=2 to the end of URL. Add a CEWP to the below of the page and insert the below code, in HTML source or else paste the code in a text file uploaded to sharepoint library and refer to the text file. (referring the text file is preferred) <script> // hide the input textbox for the "thank you " message  var x = document.getElementsByTagName("INPUT");  var i=0;  for (i=0; i<x.length; i++)  {   if (x[i].value=="Internal")   {     x[i].style.display="none";   }  }  </script> Save the page. Respond to the