I am currently working on a project which requires content to be published onto a view or page depending on a search result criteria. For example: I search through my content for the word dog and this word appears on 4 of 20 pieces of content. I wish to view all of those items on a page that is not the Search Results page, but rather one that displays all the content found, so I can print each piece of content.
I apologize if this post is awkwardly worded. At this moment it is just an idea and I am trying to get a better picture of how to change publishing based on search results to a certain area.
Thank you for your time -- and if anyone wishes to ask follow up questions, I'd be more than willing to help clarify.
You can use a view with exposed filter. Create a view, create a filter criteria there, then in settings - check "Expose this filter to visitors, to allow them to change it". A user will see a form in a view, wich you can also make separate from a view, by setting "exposed form" to "yes" and putting it in a sepparate block.
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i have an intranet (which is my main website) and a several sub-websites, which refers to the departments of the company. I need to add a list with people related to department of the current web-site. The list can be the same view of the SharePoint native search.
I find this component (Search Results), which i was able to add my criterias (like people which department is equals to "HR"), and i get the right results. However, i couldn't find an way to make the view similar to the results of the image above.
Somebody can help me? Thanks
Edit:
I've changed the configurations to use "People Item" display index. Firstly, i had to import a javascript file. Then, even though that i had the right results, the properties aren't filled in the fields of the display item (as is shown in the image below).
Would someone be willing to offer me some assistance with customizing the search results page and the search box web part properties.
First problem: Search Box Properties
When I add an additional query term (eg. fileextension="xml") the search runs as expected but the refinement panel dissapears on the search results page. I don't want it to dissapear! I just want certain filters to be pre-applied.
Second Problem: Search Results Page
How do I customize the way results are displayed. For instance, I would like to add different refinement options to the refinement panel. I would also like to change what information is displayed under each individual result. Currently it seems to show a summary of the content, followed by the author and sometimes the date. I'd like to change this. How???
Any help greatly appreciated.
The results part you need to update the XSLT, You can do this via one of the web part properties. You will also need to make sure that the fields you want to put in to the results are included in your columns(Also a web part property)
Check this out
https://littletalk.wordpress.com/2011/08/26/customizing-search-core-result-xslt-in-sharepoint-2010/
Refinement options are based on Your crawled properties. Check this out
http://www.dotnetmafia.com/blogs/dotnettipoftheday/archive/2010/03/15/get-to-know-the-refinement-web-part-in-sharepoint-2010-enterprise-search.aspx
Not sure as to why your refinement panel is disappearing, Check to see if the URL changes dramatically when you add your fileextension="xml" to the web part property, it may be that this addition is changing the URL so much the refinement panel is loaded or can't load but don't hold me to this
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The scenario - I am building a site to house a number of reports - thirty or so subsites under a main web for different report categories, and several libraries in each site, one for each separate report. In total, about 600 reports (libraries) across the thirty report categories (sites). This design has been decided on, and cannot change.
I plan/want to have a single advanced search page to search all the reports, using various custom metadata columns. That bit's easy, I can do that out of the box.
One of the most important search criteria is which report on which to search, of which, as I mentioned, there are many. The dictate is to make the report type added "invisibly" - they will select the report category, then the report type, and THEN get presented with the search page. The search should "know" which report is being searched on.
Scope selection is not a viable option, as there's too many libraries, and more will be added as new reports are created.
Now, I can get the results I want in the results if I add the "u" parameter to the URL as in;
results.aspx?k="RunDate=1/23/13"&U=http://site/report_type/library"
(address left unescaped for clarity)
My challenge is finding a way to feed that parameter TO the advanced search, and get it to tack it on to the end of its generated query.
I'm confident it can be done with only a little fidgeting to the webpart, but I need a bit of a shove in the right direction.
Or, as always, if y'all have a more brillianter idea, I could do that.
Now, I have a second issue where the different reports have their own varying set of metadata columns, and they only want the RIGHT ones to show up for each report, but one crisis at a time.
EDIT - upon further research, it seems I can't extend the advanced search webpart, as it's a sealed type. Has anyone either a way around that, or have a third-party advanced search page that I CAN crack into?
I was able to find a solution to this issue by overriding the JavaScript function NavigateTo(url) which is responsible for the redirect. My solution can be found here
What you are actually asking about is a contextual search box, as the u parameter resembles the contextual search scope.
I'm not sure that the standard search box can be configured the way you want it to, so it always adds the query string u=<current url>. I think you will have to resort to some (even if simple) code.
An example you can find here: Create a SharePoint Contextual Search Box in a Content Editor Web Part.
Of course you could do the same thing with server side code, but as you only want to add a querytring parameter, JavaScript should be enough.
I want to have a search box on top of the header, but when I submit keywords, I dont want the results to appear on the header, but on the body.
To do this, I thought id have the plugin once in the header and another in the body in a special "Search" page, where I could hide the from in the header when the user was using this page. But I dont know how to do, so that when a search is done, to jump to this other page. (Its sort of like when tt_news has a single pid to go from LIST to SINGLE)
How can I do it to do this jump? Or maybe is there an easier way to achieve what I want?
On common pages you need to construct "pure html" in the header part with the search form where its action is link to the another page - displaying search results. It uses typolink for generating proper form's action.
On the page with search results you don't need to hide the search form, instead you can use TypoScript to fill the search field with value entered on the common page.
There is ready-to-use sample of TypoScript for such scenario placed in Introduction Package, I don't use it so sorry, but I won't paste it here. Anyway you can install it locally and dig for nice snippets and techniques.
After much trials-and-errors, I've managed to find how to add new columns in Site Pages of our Sharepoint Foundation 2010.
I'll explain using a field called "Category" I created. The problem I have now is that the only way to add or edit my page categories is to first create a new page, enter its title when asked by the pop-up, enter the content of the page, saving, and then going back in to the page properties. That's the only place I'm seeing my new "category" field.
I've set the field as "required", so it's supposed to be filled, but it doesn't seem to matter.
Moreso, I'd like to see the categories of the page I'm looking at at the bottom, for example, but when I open a page I only see its title and content, nothing else.
Can someone help me understand how to manage this? I'm mostly on my own and SPF2010 is not very well documented for a newbie from what I've seen in my searches.
Thanks in advance.
Is your new column called Category part of your default View or whatever View that you are looking at?
Your question reminds me a precision I didn't wrote about:
In the "All Pages" View (if I understand Sharepoint correctly), which is like a list of all the pages of my site, I've managed to add columns for the new fields I've created.
My wish is to be able to enter data for these new fields at page creation, like when we enter the title of a new page, and/or when I go to edit its content.
Only place so far I found to edit my new fields is in the Page Properties, which requires the page to be created first, or in this "All Pages" View where I added my fields. I'd like to categorize my pages as I create them, which could save us lots of time since we're starting our documentation project and nothing has been done yet...