I have a sharepoint site with variations.
how can i separate search results so that it only retrieves results from the variation site it is in.
Create a search scope that only uses the certain content sources you want. Then assign the newly created scope to the search scope dropdown on the search page.
I think this is what you are asking. If not, my bad.
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I cannot for the life of me work out how to return home pages within SharePoint Online search.
I have a single site collection with a number of sub sites that have a home page set as the default page, however when I create a query results source in SharePoint Online I cannot retrieve any of the homepages. They seem to be excluded?
Any ideas or thoughts to why they would be excluded?
Ideally, I just want to return all homepages for each sub-site within the site collection.
Many thanks.
You need to make sure that all your home pages are having same content type you are using in your filter. You might also use the name of content type in filter instead of id in your filter.
ContentType:"your content type name"
You also need to make sure all these pages are checked in and published to be picked up in search. If you are sure of all that, then try to reindex the whole site collection frim site settings and recheck after a while, normally it takes a couple of hours for crawl to finish and het your results. However, it sometimes take longer depending on search index load on cloud.
In my sharepoint site, the master page template is chagned and we moved the search box into the site which showed as a web part, When the user enters a search string in that box, it should search whatever the materials available in the site itself, document library, blogs in the web, forums and wikis. Therefore, I think I need a way to figure out how these types of searches are done using sharepoint as well as how programmatically provide a search string to advanced search and receive search results. Any Idea how to do this? my code behinds are in C#
I don't think that should be any issue as sharepoint search is based upon the query string K parameter stands for Keyword, s parameter stands for scope, cs stands for contextual scope So use these parameters in query string to your results page having the core results webpart.
eg.
http:// <>/ <>/ results.aspx?k="Test Keyowrd"&s="All Sites"
I create a form form infopath. On that form I took the text boxes with corresponding fields, then I embed the form in SharePoint. Then in my document library, clicked "new", filled up data. Then I can see the data columns wise in my document library. Let's say I fill data as "Lalit" when I tried to search it, it gave me message:
"No results matching your search were found."
1.Check your spelling. Are the words in your query spelled correctly?
2.Try using synonyms. Maybe what you're looking for uses slightly different words.
3.Make your search more general. Try more general terms in place of specific ones.
4.Try your search in a different scope. Different scopes can have different results.
What should the problem ?
If you're using SharePoint Server you have to configure the search before you can use it. SharePoint then crawls the content of you site and builds an index for it, that will be used by the search.
You find the search configuration in the Central Administration under the Shared Service Provider for you web application.
I am using the Microsoft Search Server 2008 Express with WSS 3.0 for searching the wss content as well as LAN contents. I did a kind of POC where I can search the wss content and the contents that are not of wss repository but placed in the LAN. When I do a wss content search let say I have a Document Library named "Documents" where I have uploaded or created some sample documents each of which containing the keyword "Robbins", now I search the keyword "Robbins". Search result matches the Robbins and it displays the result. Now the problem is it searches all the content i.e it even displays the Task, Announcements and everything related to Robbins. Is it possible to define a scope for searching the content i.e it will not search in the unwanted areas like Task or Announcement. I mean is it possible to define a scope of search, If I do the same then it will not show me the unwanted results.
Thanks,
Tejas Jagtap
I think I understand your question, though I'm still a little hazy. If I'm off-the-mark, I apologize in advance.
Could you get by with simply turning off results display for the lists and libraries you don't want shown in the results. If you go to the Advanced Settings of any list or library, the last radio button setting is for Search (e.g., "Allow items from this list to appear in search results?"). Setting it to No removes the list/library contents from search results.
Beyond that, your options for configuring WSS search are exceptionally limited. Unlike the full-blown OSS search engine, Microsoft "black boxes" WSS to fixed scopes, crawl schedules, etc.
You can create a search scope using contentclass. This allows you to restrict results to certain types of items such as documents, tasks, etc.
Another option is to use the IsDocument managed property. This is a hidden SharePoint property that you can expose to the search engine via a scope as well.
I've got a situation where I want to have a master list at the top level of a Sharepoint site, and then allow the sub-sites to see the master list. I've tried working with Content Types, and either I'm slow and just can't get the concept, or it doesn't seem to apply.
Anyone have any luck?
It depends on what you mean by "see" the master list.
If you're writing code to access it, you can do that by getting an SPWeb object for the top level site and using its Lists property.
If you just want to display it on a web part page, you can do that with a Content Query Web Part.
If you want to use it in other lists somehow, that's a more involved question. You can definitely set up lookup columns to point to lists in other sites, but we've only done that via custom site and list definitions.
Also, if you want to reuse some text or HTML from your master list and you're using MOSS, the Reusable Content list in the site collection's top site is useful.
I heard some web parts can build relation between lists that are located on different sites. But it is new to seek sharping list relationbetween master-sites and sub-sites.
I am not sure if this relation can be seen as cross-site, if positive then take a look at Sharepoint Cross-site Lookup. Otherwise for me your requirements is an "involved question" .
You can also use data view webparts to serve up list data from other sites.
If you want to be able to have a lookup column, looking in another list at a higher level site. you can at the higher level site create a site column (under site settings) that is a lookup field to the socalled masterlist. Then on the list in a subsite, you can add a site column, then choose the site column you created earlier.