Walkthrough: Creating a Basic Search Web Part Using the Query Object Model. Last modified: April 30, 2010 Applies to: SharePoint Server 2010 In Microsoft SharePoint Server 2010, you can customize the appearance and functionality of the Search Center pages and Web Parts from the browser. However, if you want to customize these pages or Web Parts in ways that are not possible through the browser, you can create custom Web Parts that use the Query object model or Federation object model to execute search queries. This walkthrough addresses the following tasks: Setting up the Web Part project Implementing the Web Part Deploying and testing the Web Part To perform this walkthrough, you must have the following installed on your development computer: Microsoft SharePoint Server 2010 Microsoft Visual Studio 2010 or a similar Microsoft .NET Framework-compatible development tool To create the project for the Web Part In Visual Studio 2010, on the File menu, point to New, and then click Project.
Next, you must add the required references to your Web Part project. Developing Custom Search Solutions with SharePoint 2010. Manage metadata properties for search (SharePoint Server 2010) Published: May 12, 2010 You can enhance the end-user search experience by mapping crawled properties to managed properties. Crawled properties are metadata (such as author, title, or subject) that are extracted from documents during crawls. Managed properties can appear in refined searches and help users perform more successful queries. Refined searches can be performed only on managed properties, not crawled properties. To make a crawled property available for refined search queries, you must map the crawled property to a managed property. You can map multiple crawled properties to a single managed property or map a single crawled property to multiple managed properties.
For example, three different document types might have different names for the property that identifies the author. Procedures in this article: To view managed properties and crawled properties Verify that the user account that is performing this procedure is an administrator for the Search service application. Change properties for the Search Box Web Part (SharePoint Server 2010) Published: November 13, 2012 Summary: Learn how to configure properties of the Search Box Web Part. Applies to: SharePoint Server 2013 By default, the Search Box Web Part is used on the home page for the Search Center (default.aspx), and all search results pages (results.aspx, peopleresults.aspx, conversationresults.aspx, videoresults.aspx).
By changing properties in the Search Box Web Part you can you can do the following: To configure the properties of a Search Box Web Part Verify that the user account that performs this procedure is a member of the Designers SharePoint group on the Enterprise Search Center site. Enterprise Search: Tabs with custom scope - Grid User Post - The Grid Blog. Searching External Data in SharePoint 2010 Using Business Connectivity Services - Eric White's Blog. Business Connectivity Services (BCS) are a set of services and features that provide a way to connect SharePoint solutions to sources of external data and to define external content types that are based on that external data. The search services in SharePoint 2010 are able to index the external data using the external content type and show meaningful results to the searchers of the external data. BCS is based on its predecessor, Business Data Catalog, with enhancements in several key areas, including support in SharePoint Designer.
This blog is inactive.New blog: EricWhite.com/blogBlog TOCThis is an MSDN article written by Bob McClellan. It will be published sometime in the near future. After it is published, I will update this post to point to that article. This article was driven by Juan Balmori Labra, with technical reviews by Nitin Ved, Josh Teitelbaum, Russell Palmer, Rolando Jimenez, and Juan Balmori Labra.
Table of Contents Overview Step-by-Step Example of Searching External Data. Enterprise People Search In SharePoint 2010. In this Artical I will explain how to set up and Configure Enterprise People Search In SharePoint 2010. So Before Creating and Configuring User Profile Service Application, Let’s Understand My SharePoint Environment. 3) On Manage Service Application Page click on “New” and select User Profile Service Application.
Service Application will create. After Creating Service Application, we will start necessary services for service application 5) On Quick Launch menu of central Administration site click on “System Settings” then click on “Manage Services on Server” Under servers Section. As soon we click on start we will have User Profile Synchronization Service Window. 12) Now we have created User Profile Service Application, now it’s time to pull our active directory users from AD/DNS server. NOTE: To do User Profile Synchronization with Active Directory, User SharePoint_Farm (who is Managing User Profile Service Application1) must have Permission to do synchronization. 8) Click on finish button.
Troubleshooting SharePoint (People) Search 101. I’ve been nerding it up lately SharePointwise, doing the geeky things that geeks like to do like ADFS and Claims Authentication. So in between trying to get my book fully edited ready for publishing, I might squeeze out the odd technical SharePoint post. Today I had to troubleshoot a broken SharePoint people search for the first time in a while. I thought it was worth explaining the crawl process a little and talking about the most likely ways in which is will break for you, in order of likelihood as I see it. There are articles out on this topic, but none that I found are particularly comprehensive.
Background stuff If you consider yourself a legendary IT pro or SharePoint god, feel free to skip this bit. When you provision a search service application as part of a SharePoint installation, you are asked for (among other things), a windows account to use for the search service. You can see this in the screenshots below. How people search works (a little more advanced) Right!
Make sense? Error: Access is denied. Verify that either the Default Content Access Account has access to this repository, or add a crawl rule to crawl this repository. If the repository being crawled is a SharePoint repository, verify that the account you are using h. Error: Access is denied. Verify that either the Default Content Access Account has access to this repository, or add a crawl rule to crawl this repository.
If the repository being crawled is a SharePoint repository, verify that the account you are using has "Full Read" permissions on the SharePoint Web Application being crawled. Reason: This error will occur, at the time of crawling the SharePoint application content. because, you may have provided a URL to access the SharePoint web application like (just an example). When the search engine tried to crawl the content using the kmportal.sensoft2000.com URL, the server will reject the request. because, it will take the request as "LoopBackRequest".
Solution: So you need to disable the LoopBackRequest in registry. 1. 2. 3. 4. 5. Thats it... Rational Guide to implementing SharePoint Server 2010 User Profile Synchronization. Print | posted on Friday, April 23, 2010 7:47 PM Introduction There's a ton of stuff out there on User Profile Sync in SharePoint Server 2010. Some of it’s good, some of it’s frankly terrible. TechNet has some of the best material, but unfortunately TechNet’s format restrictions are counter-intuitive.
Therefore this article presents an end to end, “rational guide” to setting this up. [UPDATE: 01/10/2010] TechNet has recently updated its Configure profile synchronization (SharePoint Server 2010) topic, which is greatly improved and now a first class resource. I urge you to check this out. There are a couple of contentious setup requirements in here. You should really read the Architecture Overview below to become acquainted with the moving parts involved, but if you are impatient, you can skip to the procedure itself.
If you are having problems, firstly ensure you are following the steps below exactly. Architecture Overview [UPDATE 11/09/2010] a new, corrected version of the diagram. Wrap Up.