Search Center on SharePoint Publishing site - sharepoint

Can someone give me some directions on how to setup SharePoint Search Center so I can get results from the list and that they have some custom (modified) link?
I have Forms authentication (and anonymous access) enabled with alternate access mapping.
Right now in the Default zone I get results from the data in lists and they all point to the AllItems.aspx. If try search from the Internet zone I don't get any results from the lists and I am guessing that this is because of some security settings. But if make them to show how will I customize resulting link so that list items are shown with some publishing page.
For example if I keep news in the News list and when I do search I want to get result with link in following format
http://somesite/Pages/News.aspx?itemId=12
where the itemID is he id of the news item.
Can I customize link in the result ?

You can customize the result link using the Core Search Results web part. It is all in the XSL which is available if you modify the shared properties of the web part.
The problem is that this page is meant to show search results of all types including documents in SharePoint, files potentially outside of SharePoint, web pages, business data, etc.
You may want to have a custom search results page that uses a specific scope or managed property query such that you can be sure the results will be list items. This can probably be done without any coding (if you don't consider XSL coding) and you could still use the Core Search Results web part.
Another option may be similar, but use the Data Form/View web part (through SharePoint Designer) or the Content Query Web Part (Publishing Infrastructure feature required).

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Can no longer find SharePoint Site Assets list via Graph API

I'm used the Microsoft Graph API to query SharePoint. Until recently I was able to find the "Site Assets" document library via the Graph API. I can no longer find the list.
What queries have I tried:
https://graph.microsoft.com/v1.0/sites/{siteid}/lists?select=weburl
No URL matches the list of Site Assets. Next:
https://graph.microsoft.com/v1.0/sites/{siteid}/drives?select=weburl
Again no URL matches the list of Site Assets. In the past I was always able to find the assets used the second query. I switched both queries to beta, also without result.
I've looked at the changelog in the Graph API, but nothing relevant is listed.
How can I (nowadays) find the "Site Assets" list on any SharePoint Site?
By default both the lists and drives enumerations attempt to hide system objects, but unfortunately doing so in SharePoint is non-trivial. As a result some system lists were still coming through until recently when we made sure they didn't.
You can still see them, but you'll need to explicitly ask for them by requesting the system facet.
https://graph.microsoft.com/v1.0/sites/{siteid}/lists?select=weburl,system
https://graph.microsoft.com/v1.0/sites/{siteid}/drives?select=weburl,system

Share news articles between sites

Does anyone know if it is possible to share data between sites on a Kentico platform, such as news articles? I have tried searching but could not find an answer.
Thank you,
Yes. If you want the content to be the same and keep the URLs and Domains separate, then this is best accomplished with linked documents between the sites. This way if they are updated on either site, they will remain in sync on the other site. Read more here: https://docs.kentico.com/k9/managing-website-content/working-with-pages/copying-and-moving-pages-creating-linked-pages
https://docs.kentico.com/k9/e-commerce-features/managing-your-store/products/linking-existing-products-or-sections
Basically what you'd want to do in your content tree, is click "new page" and then select "Link an existing page" from the bottom of the next menu. After that, you will see a content tree to select a page from. Use the site selector in the top left to choose a different site, and then select the page you'd like to link in.
Note: Keep in mind that the page type will need to be allowed in that section of the tree (for example, if you are trying to nest a news article under a folder but folders are not an allowed parent type, you will get an error).
If you'd like to pull data from another site in via repeater and leave the content on the other site, then you can user a repeater or similar viewer control, and specify a site within the properties in order to pull the pages from the other site.
Each of these methods assumes the Kentico sites are on the same instance of Kentico with a shared database.
If you have multiple sites in one Kentico instance, in your repeater getting the news articles, specify the site you want to get the news articles from and it will be displayed on that site. If you want to combine them then create a custom query and use the query repeater to show the news articles.

Changing the source of a Sharepoint List View

Effectively I am looking to change the viewed Document Library within an exsisting List View Web Part from 'Document Library #1' to Document Library #2'. I want to do so without having to re-create the entire web part (e.g. settings & views) as I would have to do this multiple times.
Sharepoint version is 2007 and Sharepoint Designer is not avaliable.
Context: I am currently building a Sharepoint area which will consist of multiple ASPX pages all based off an original layout. This layout includes a List View web part that directly views a Document Library.
Each ASPX page has a Document Library attributed to it (e.g. Page1.aspx and DocLib1), which I wish to display within this List View web part.
Page1.aspx was setup just fine (effectively the original). When setting up Page2.aspx as a direct copy of the first, I am unable to change the List View from DocLib1 to DocLib2 as there seems no option to do so.
The list view web part isn't easily customizable unless you can edit the xml for the web part and change some guids. If you want to be able to change the source list through the browser you will need to use a different web part - the content query web part is an out of box option, though obviously that is quite different from the standard list view.
You may also be able to do something with with list templates - if you can use a custom template instead of the standard document library template, you may be able to alter AllItems.aspx to do what you need.

Load a web part before other

I am stuck with a problem. I am having tool part where I get all the Lists present in the Site.
I have other web part which should get the selected List in the tool part.
I see that the web part is loaded first then the tool part. so the web part is unable to the List selected in the tool part.
Please note that the text box is in a User Control.
Please help me.
I have looked at your code and found the following:
First things first. You need to move AWAY from using ToolParts and the SharePoint native webpart. they are deprecated and are a remnant from SPS2003. In MOSS / WSS 3.0 you can and should use the ASP.NET WebPart.
Secondly, I think you are mixing things up. The ToolPartGetLists is not a toolpart, it is a webpart, that in itself loads the CustomToolPart, which in turn allows you to select a list.
This toolpart is only shown when you edit the shared webpart in the UI. The list you select is then persisted to the SelectedList property of the webpart using the toolpart.
The connected webpart then tries to read the SelectedList property I guess.
Like I said, I could go and try to fix the code for you, but it is not the way to go, you really (REALLY) need to switch to ASP.NET WebPart based webparts. The native sharepoint one WILL be fased out in the (near) future.
Here you can find an example, with code! (scroll to bottom for download link). As a bonus, it uses the built in sharepoint listpicker
I don't know of any way you could control the load order of elements (web parts) on the same page.
Sounds more like you want to have your second web part (the display of the lists) have a "default" when the page loads--which could be empty. Then it would be changed to the selected list only when the user clicked a new selection in the other web part (the list of lists).

Customizing Search Results Display in Sharepoint Services 3.0 Wiki

I'm looking at using a Windows SharePoint Services 3.0 wiki as a metadata repository. We basically want a community-driven dictionary and for various reasons we're using Sharepoint instead of say MediaWiki.
What can I do to customize or completely replace searchresults.aspx?
Features I'd add if I knew how:
Automatically load the #1 hit if it is a 100% match to the search term
Show the first few lines of each result as a preview so users don't have to click through to bad results
Add a "Page doesn't exist, click here to create it" link in cases where there's not a 100% match
I've got Sharepoint Designer installed and it looks like I'll be able to use it to upload any custom .aspx files I create but I don't see that it will give me access to searchresults.aspx.
Note: Since I plan to access this search tool from an external site via URL parameters it should be fine to leave the existing searchresults.aspx unchanged and just load this solution as a complementary search option.
Yes, everything is possible but you will need to customize it a little bit.
I would recommend you to build a custom web part to display your results. Here is a nice article to start with: http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/ms584220.aspx

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