Searching SPS using MSN Desktop Search

Point2Share — Fri, 17 Dec 2004 17:02:00 GMT

re: Searching SPS using MSN Desktop Search

Celarent — Thu, 13 Jan 2005 00:27:00 GMT

Thank you, it works very well. But string @person,http://my-portal/search.aspx?k=$w&w="DAV:contentclass"='urn:content-class:SPSPeople' searches all My site information, including Reports to and so on. In advanced search I can choose fields (e.g. position, department, name...), is it possible there?

re: Searching SPS using MSN Desktop Search

Mark Bower — Thu, 13 Jan 2005 00:35:00 GMT

IIRC rather than $w you can use $1 $2 etc. to pass more parameters to the URL query string.

re: Searching SPS using MSN Desktop Search

Matthew — Tue, 19 Jul 2005 21:09:46 GMT

Mark, SWEET!

You could also identify specific attributes for your people search this way:

@person,http://myportal/Search.aspx?w=CONTAINS(%22urn:schemas-microsoft-com:sharepoint:portal:profile:AccountName%22,%20'%22$w*%22')%20OR%20CONTAINS(%22urn:schemas-microsoft-com:sharepoint:portal:profile:FirstName%22,%20'%22$w*%22')%20OR%20CONTAINS(%22urn:schemas-microsoft-com:sharepoint:portal:profile:LastName%22,%20'%22$w*%22')%20OR%20CONTAINS(%22urn:schemas-microsoft-com:sharepoint:portal:profile:PreferredName%22,%20'%22$w*%22')%20AND%20(%22DAV:contentclass%22='urn:content-class:SPSPeople')

MSN Desktop Search and SharePoint

Matthew McDermott — Tue, 19 Jul 2005 21:17:43 GMT

MSN Desktop Search and SharePoint

Matthew McDermott — Tue, 19 Jul 2005 21:31:49 GMT

MSN Desktop Search and SharePoint

Matthew McDermott — Tue, 19 Jul 2005 21:32:19 GMT

SharePoint Portal Search through the MSN Search Toolbar

Mauro Cardarelli — Sun, 31 Jul 2005 20:03:29 GMT

Searching SPS using MSN Desktop Search

Frodes weblog — Wed, 12 Apr 2006 11:12:53 GMT

I came across this article today. Excellent!