SharePoint Saturday Austin was terrific! I am grateful for all the speakers that traveled to Austin as well as the attendees (some from as far away as Nebraska!) that came and made it a wonderful collaborative and educational day. We could not have done it without the sponsors and volunteers. All in all an amazing show for our first attempt!
SharePoint 2010 No Code Search Center Customization
My session was fun, I love it when the audience gets involved and really thinks about what I am presenting. Here is a link to my deck and the links from the last slide.
SharePoint 2010 No Code Search Center Customization
- Basic Search Center Editing
- http://bit.ly/pCHMaW
- XML Test Results Page
- http://bit.ly/pyIb0X
- iFilter Shop iFilterView.exe
- http://ifiltershop.com/downloads/IFilterView.zip
Hi Matthew,
I was at your session on customizing Search Center, and I was especially interested in your search page that had the three Core Results web parts for “Your Recent {whatever}.” But I didn’t see this in your slide show. Can you possibly email me a step-by-step on how you built those? I remember you mentioning something about each one having a unique hard-coded query.
I am being tasked with customizing a FAST Search UI, and I wanted to show my team the above example you demo’d.
Thanks so much for sharing with us this weekend!
~Eddie McHam
Eddie,
I haven’t created the step-by-step for that demo yet, though it is in my plans. The key to the queries is to write a hard coded query that satisfies YOUR user requirements. For example the Your Sites query is “contentClass:STS_Web”. That will return the webs that the user has access to (because SharePoint handles the security trimming). For the other two queries I am using JQuery to append the current user to the query as Author (for documents) or AssignedTo (for Tasks). I use JQuery but you can do the same thing with C# by subclassing the Search Core Results Web part.
Glad you enjoyed the session!
Matt