Posts tagged MOSS Search
Sharepoint search – Create an ‘Alert Me’ on individual search results
Mar 1st
The default MOSS search results page in a Sharepoint search center site allows the user to create an alert on a set of search results. It does not however give the user the ability to create alerts on individual items in the search results.
The following steps outline the process to add an ‘Alert Me’ link to each individual search result.
The ‘New Alert’ screen is a OOB Sharepoint Application page that takes the following as querystring parameters
- the GUID of the list the document belongs to
- the integer ID of the item in the list
The main steps to enable alerts on individual search results are:
- Ensure the Sharepoint ID column is added to the SSP’s Managed Metadata properties.
- Make sure this column is selected in the core search results web part data settings.
- Edit the XSL to write out a hyperlink to a custom application page. The link must have the ID of the list item and the URL of the item added as querystring parameters.
- Write a custom application page that redirects to the OOB application page located at /_layouts/SubNew.aspx and pass it the appropriate paramters in the querystring.
Sharepoint People search results – adding additional user profile properties
Feb 18th
This post describes the step by step process required to add additional metadata properties to the MOSS people search results.
By default the MOSS people search only returns a limited number of AD fields such as Job Title and Department. What happens if you want to add additional fields such as Mobile Telephone?
The solution to this is a 3 step process:
- Make sure the user profile attributes you want to include in the search results are crawled and mapped to Managed Properties.
- Edit the PeopleSearchResult.aspx file in Sharepoint Designer if you want the additional property to appear in the Refine Your Search section of the search results page. This file can be found in the Masterpage Gallery.
- Edit the peopleresults.aspx page in the search center site to make sure the new columns are included