Customizing High Confidence Search Result for People search in MOSS 2007

AMazaheri — Mon, 01 Dec 2008 02:28:00 GMT

OOTB when searching for a person using "PreferredName", "WorkEmail", "UserName" and "AccountName", along with the core search result (Displayed via Search Core Result webpart) person's information is also displayed using "Search High Confidence Results" webpart (Same webpart used for Best bet) as exact match.

By default following properties are included in the high confidence search result:

Title
Skills
Work Email
Work Phone
Department
Office
About Me
Responsibility

Following steps allows administrators to add additional information (e.g. Cell Phone or any custom profile property) to the resultset.

Step 1

From "Metedata Property Mapping" page select and edit any of the available High Confidence Display Properties (HighConfidenceDisplayProperty12-HighConfidenceDisplay15):

And from "Edit Managed Property" page map it to the desired profile property:

Step 2

Run a full crawl on a content source which contains sps3://[Mysite web application url] as one of the entries in start addresses list:

Step 3

On "results.aspx" or "peopleresults.aspx" replace the "Search High Confidence Results" webpart's XSLT with the following:

XML

<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?>
<xsl:stylesheet version="1.0" xmlns:xsl="http://www.w3.org/1999/XSL/Transform">
<xsl:output method="xml" version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8" indent="yes"/>
<xsl:template match="/">
<xmp><xsl:copy-of select="*"/></xmp>
</xsl:template>
</xsl:stylesheet>

And make sure that the profile property added in step 1 is included in the resultset:

Note: Make sure to save the original XSLT before applying the above change.

Step 4

Add a reference to the "highconfidencedisplayproperty12" in the original XSLT as follows:

XML

<xsl:stylesheet version="1.0" xmlns:xsl="http://www.w3.org/1999/XSL/Transform" >

<xsl:param name="BBLimit">3</xsl:param>

<xsl:param name="DisplayDefinition">True</xsl:param>

<xsl:param name="DisplayDescription">False</xsl:param>

<xsl:param name="DisplayHCDescription">False</xsl:param>

<xsl:param name="DisplayHCImage">True</xsl:param>

<xsl:param name="DisplayHCProps">True</xsl:param>

<xsl:param name="DisplayHCTitle">True</xsl:param>

<xsl:param name="DisplayTerm">True</xsl:param>

<xsl:param name="DisplayTitle">True</xsl:param>

<xsl:param name="DisplayUrl">True</xsl:param>

<xsl:param name="ResultsPerTypeLimit">1</xsl:param>

<xsl:param name="DisplayST">True</xsl:param>

<xsl:param name="DisplayBB">True</xsl:param>

<xsl:param name="DisplayHC">True</xsl:param>

<xsl:param name="ResponsibilityText" />

<xsl:param name="SkillsText" />

<xsl:param name="HighConfTitle" />

<xsl:param name="IsFirstPage">True</xsl:param>

<xsl:param name="BestBetTitle"></xsl:param>

<xsl:template match="All_Results/SpecialTermInformation">

<xsl:variable name="keyword" select="Keyword" />

<xsl:if test="$DisplayST = 'True'" >

<xsl:if test="($DisplayTerm = 'True'and string-length($keyword) > 0) or ($DisplayDefinition = 'True' and string-length(Description) > 0)" >

<xsl:if test="$DisplayTerm = 'True'and string-length($keyword) > 0">

<b>

<xsl:value-of select="$keyword"/>

</b>

</span>

</xsl:if>

<xsl:if test="$DisplayDefinition = 'True'" >

<xsl:value-of disable-output-escaping="yes" select="Description"/>

</xsl:if>

</div>

</xsl:if>

</xsl:template>

<xsl:template match="All_Results/BestBetResults/Result">

<xsl:if test="$DisplayBB = 'True'" >

<xsl:if test="position() <= $BBLimit" >

<xsl:variable name="url" select="url"/>

<xsl:variable name="id" select="id" />

<xsl:if test="$DisplayTitle = 'True'" >

<xsl:value-of select="title"/>

</a>

</span>

</xsl:if>

<xsl:if test="$DisplayDescription = 'True' and description[. != '']" >

<xsl:value-of select="description"/>

</div>

</xsl:if>

<xsl:if test="$DisplayUrl = 'True'" >

<xsl:value-of select="$url"/>

</a>

</span>

</xsl:if>

</div>

</xsl:if>

</xsl:template>

<xsl:template match="All_Results/HighConfidenceResults/Result">

<xsl:if test="$DisplayHC = 'True' and $IsFirstPage = 'True'" >

<xsl:variable name="prefix">IMNRC('</xsl:variable>

<xsl:variable name="suffix">')</xsl:variable>

<xsl:variable name="url" select="url"/>

<xsl:variable name="id" select="id"/>

<xsl:variable name="pictureurl" select="highconfidenceimageurl"/>

<xsl:variable name="jobtitle" select="highconfidencedisplayproperty1"/>

<xsl:variable name="workphone" select="highconfidencedisplayproperty2"/>

<xsl:variable name="department" select="highconfidencedisplayproperty3"/>

<xsl:variable name="officenumber" select="highconfidencedisplayproperty4"/>

<xsl:variable name="preferredname" select="highconfidencedisplayproperty5"/>

<xsl:variable name="aboutme" select="highconfidencedisplayproperty8"/>

<xsl:variable name="responsibility" select="highconfidencedisplayproperty9"/>

<xsl:variable name="skills" select="highconfidencedisplayproperty10"/>

<xsl:variable name="workemail" select="highconfidencedisplayproperty11"/>

<xsl:variable name="cellphone" select="highconfidencedisplayproperty12"/>

<xsl:value-of select="$HighConfTitle" />

</span>

<tr>

<xsl:if test = "$DisplayHCImage = 'True'">

<tr>

<xsl:variable name="imgid" select="concat('HSR_IMG_',$id)"/>

<xsl:choose>

<xsl:when test = "string-length($pictureurl) > 0">

</xsl:when>

<xsl:otherwise>

</xsl:otherwise>

</xsl:choose>

window.setTimeout("resizeProfileImage('<xsl:value-of select="$imgid"/>')", 1)

</script>

</a>

</td>

</tr>

</table>

</xsl:if>

</td>

<xsl:value-of select="$preferredname"/>

</a>

</span>

<br/>

<xsl:call-template name="DisplayOfficeProfile">

<xsl:with-param name="title" select="$jobtitle" />

<xsl:with-param name="dep" select="$department" />

<xsl:with-param name="phone" select="$workphone" />

<xsl:with-param name="office" select="$officenumber" />

<xsl:with-param name="cell" select="$cellphone" />

</xsl:call-template>

</div>

<xsl:choose>

<xsl:when test="$aboutme[. != '']">

<xsl:value-of disable-output-escaping="yes" select="$aboutme"/>

<br/>

</xsl:when>

</xsl:choose>

<xsl:choose>

<xsl:when test="$responsibility[. != ''] or $skills[. != '']">

<xsl:choose>

<xsl:when test="$responsibility[. != '']">

<xsl:value-of disable-output-escaping="yes" select="$ResponsibilityText"/>

</span>

<xsl:value-of select="translate($responsibility,';',',')"/>

<xsl:text> </xsl:text>

</span>

</xsl:when>

</xsl:choose>

<xsl:choose>

<xsl:when test="$skills[. != '']">

<xsl:if test="$responsibility[. != ''] and $skills[. != '']">

<br/>

</xsl:if>

<xsl:value-of disable-output-escaping="yes" select="$SkillsText"/>

</span>

<xsl:value-of select="translate($skills,';',',')"/>

</span>

</xsl:when>

</xsl:choose>

<br/>

</xsl:when>

<xsl:otherwise><span /></xsl:otherwise>

</xsl:choose>

</div>

</td>

</tr>

</table>

</div>

</xsl:if>

</xsl:template>

<xsl:template match="/">

<xsl:call-template name="dvt_1.body"/>

</xsl:template>

<xsl:template name="DisplayOfficeProfile">

<xsl:param name="title" />

<xsl:param name="dep" />

<xsl:param name="phone" />

<xsl:param name="office" />

<xsl:param name="cell" />

<xsl:if test='string-length($title) > 0'>

<xsl:value-of select="$title" />

</xsl:if>

<xsl:if test='string-length($dep) > 0'>

<xsl:value-of select="$dep" />

</xsl:if>

<xsl:if test='string-length($phone) > 0'>

<xsl:value-of select="$phone" />

</xsl:if>

<xsl:if test='string-length($office) > 0'>

<xsl:value-of select="$office" />

</xsl:if>

<xsl:if test='string-length($cell) > 0'>

<xsl:value-of select="$cell" />

</xsl:if>

</span>

<br/>

</xsl:template>

<xsl:template name="dvt_1.body">

<xsl:apply-templates />

</xsl:template>

</xsl:stylesheet>

Replace the customized XSLT with the original version and check in the page to apply the changes.

MOSS 2007 Best Practices articles are now live!

AMazaheri — Fri, 29 Aug 2008 03:01:00 GMT

Recently I collaborated on a SharePoint Collaboration best practice article which just got published on Technet along with a series of great articles on Operation, Publishing, Search and My Sites:

· Ops: http://technet.microsoft.com/en-us/library/cc850692.aspx

· Pub: http://technet.microsoft.com/en-us/library/cc850698.aspx

· Collab: http://technet.microsoft.com/en-us/library/cc850694.aspx

· Search: http://technet.microsoft.com/en-us/library/cc850696.aspx

· My Sites: http://technet.microsoft.com/en-us/library/cc262706.aspx

SharePoint 2007 Customer Evidence Update

AMazaheri — Wed, 20 Aug 2008 04:34:00 GMT

Here is a great video on how TVGuide is leveraging MOSS 2007 enterprise features for its Online Video Guide (One of the MOSS projects that truly yours was involved along with a team of great folks here in U.S and India!):

Media Company’s Fast, Relevant Internet Video Search Drives Business

TV Guide took advantage of the growing interest in online video content by creating a new service for end-users to search primarily professionally produced video content through a video guide at www.video.tvguide.com. It chose Enterprise Search, an integrated part of Microsoft® Office SharePoint® Server 2007 that delivers fast, accurate results and a pleasant browsing experience to drive customer loyalty and to increase advertising revenue.

Streaming Video

Error 10039 on NLB WFE servers

AMazaheri — Tue, 04 Mar 2008 06:07:00 GMT

Issue:

In NLB unicast mode Network card's MAC address gets replaced by a virtual MAC which prevents the servers from connecting to each other if only one network card is installed on WFE/Query machines. By default WFE may reroute the search request to any of the Query servers available in the Farm (Including itself) and the above setting forces the Search service to use the local Query server and keeps retrying the other WFE/Query servers in 30 seconds, 60 seconds,etc. As a result you should see a similar warning in the Machine's Event Log:

Retry of query machine '[MachineName]' has failed with error: The network path was not found. 0x80070035. It will be retried again in 900 seconds. Component: 8187f82b-d5df-47e8-b26a-a19bca2588c9

Solution:

Adding a second Network card should resolve this issue.

Event ID 10016, 6482 and 6398 after installing SP1

AMazaheri — Thu, 24 Jan 2008 00:06:00 GMT

Issue:

You are getting lots of 10016 DCOM errors and possibly related 6482 and 6398 after installing MOSS SP1:

Event Type: Error

Event Source: DCOM

Event Category:                None
Event ID:              10016
Date:                     12/14/2007
Time:                     9:54:49 AM
User:                     LITWAREINC\SP_AdmWorkerProcess
Computer:          LITWARESERVER

Description:

The application-specific permission settings do not grant Local Activation permission for the COM Server application with CLSID
{3D42CCB1-4665-4620-92A3-478F47389230} to the user LITWAREINC\SP_AdmWorkerProcess SID (S-1-5-21-410547914-1611941820-4061089552-1204). This security permission can be modified using the Component Services administrative tool.

Solution:

Run the following command to restart the Search service:

stsadm -o osearch -action start

i:0#.w|Ali.Mazaheri : Search

Customizing High Confidence Search Result for People search in MOSS 2007

MOSS 2007 Best Practices articles are now live!

SharePoint 2007 Customer Evidence Update

Error 10039 on NLB WFE servers

Event ID 10016, 6482 and 6398 after installing SP1