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re: Specify Default Scope for Advanced Search Box Web Part without Using Scope Picker

David — Thu, 29 Nov 2012 01:06:47 GMT

Following my prior comment, It turned out I had a typo in the XML.

However, even with that fixed, the method described on this page does not allow a custom search scope to be passed for SP2010, it only allows for a custom search field value, which is no the goal.

With SP2010, the scope is defined using two URL modifiers, "CS=" which sets the scope to something like "This Site" or whatever scope you have defined, and the "U=" which sets the URL to that site. There is currently no way I have found to embed those two values via the XML set or to set them in the path to the search page itself.

re: Specify Default Scope for Advanced Search Box Web Part without Using Scope Picker

David — Wed, 28 Nov 2012 23:50:47 GMT

I am using SP2010 an have tried every method on this page to try and set a custom search scope for an Advanced Search Web Part, including the variation advised by Richard Weston. The web part always says "Cannot save all of the property settings for this Web Part. One or more errors have occurred. See below for details" when you try to save the changes to the Properties XML

re: Specify Default Scope for Advanced Search Box Web Part without Using Scope Picker

Rajeev — Wed, 03 Oct 2012 19:23:18 GMT

How can we get result if we select more than one scope? or an we change checkbox to radio button using OOB configuration ?

re: Specify Default Scope for Advanced Search Box Web Part without Using Scope Picker

Ank — Wed, 13 Jun 2012 07:26:45 GMT

The scope does not get passed in the search for the first resultType <ResultType DisplayName="All Results" Name="default">

<Query>"scope"='Your Scope'</Query>

if i change the order of the resultType ,then which ever is the first one does not take the scope restriction in the search.

I am using Sharepoint 2010 and tried with <KeywordQuery> as well ,but the same problem exists there as well.

re: Specify Default Scope for Advanced Search Box Web Part without Using Scope Picker

Molachi — Tue, 17 Apr 2012 13:58:55 GMT

Thanks, got it working. I needed to put the block of ORs in parenthesis then it started to work. Great post!

re: Specify Default Scope for Advanced Search Box Web Part without Using Scope Picker

Richard Weston — Thu, 02 Feb 2012 16:13:52 GMT

If anyone has arrived here and looking to achieve the same thing in SharePoint 2010 then do the same as described in the blog above but instead of adding it into the <Query> tag it must be the <KeywordQuery> tag and change the content inside of the tag to simply look like this (replacing the "Your Scope" with the name of your actual scope)

Scope:"Your Scope"

So the whole tag should look like: <KeywordQuery>Scope:"Your Scope"</KeywordQuery>

Hope that helps!

Rich

re: Specify Default Scope for Advanced Search Box Web Part without Using Scope Picker

Urvali — Tue, 27 Dec 2011 10:23:11 GMT

Thank you so very much.This helped me when I most needed it !!!! Highly obliged...

re: Specify Default Scope for Advanced Search Box Web Part without Using Scope Picker

Shraddha Khare — Thu, 15 Sep 2011 10:12:06 GMT

Thanks a lot. It saved my work...

re: Practical Uses of Twitter

Mark Stokes — Tue, 03 May 2011 12:44:05 GMT

I agree completely and think there is a lot of scope for using Twitter as a notification / service tool.

There is a lot of noise, but maybe someone is interested in what others are having for lunch!!

Nose to one person is noise to another. The trick is to filter out the noise and just get the streams that you are interested in. Hashtags are the most popular way at the moment, but they are very "Folksonomy" based. I know for the Europeran SharePoint Best Practices Conference this year, there were a number of different hashtags for the same thing.

Here is an interesting example of how businesses can use Twitter to engage their customers:

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http://twitter.com/markstokes

re: Specify Default Scope for Advanced Search Box Web Part without Using Scope Picker

mattbremer — Fri, 25 Feb 2011 19:29:04 GMT

Sorry for my late response to your comments. It has been a while since I checked in on my blog. To answer the value for 'Your Scope' questions, you need to input whatever the name of your scope is. Whether it is a shared scope defined in Central Administration or a site collection specific scope defined in Site Settings. So for instance by default you have a scope called 'All Sites', that would be a value for this property. I hope that helps. Thanks.