Chris Johnson

NOTE: You also need to be a Site Collection Administrator to "see" the links for the Site Collection Settings in Central Admin.

There is no such "Search Dropdown" link in my installation. And even if I add one nothing turns up in the dropdown (apart from "this website"). I'm using a German user interface and english administration, maybe that's the problem...

I have developed search center and am having custom search scopes for my portal... Also am having 8 to 10 subsites (team sites) under parent search center..

I want to display search scopes available in parent search center, in all the sub sites..also the scopes should be visible in default search dropdown at the top of all the sub sites.

Hi,

I have developed search center on MOSS 2007. Am having custom search scopes which works fine on this parent portal..

This search center is having 8 to 10 sub-sites (team sites).

I want the scopes that i have created in search center should be available in all the subsites.

The search dropdowns in all the subsites should display the search scopes available in search center.

what i mean is ..the search scope that i have created in search center i.e. Parent site should be available across all the sub sites for that parent site.

Is there anything that i have to do for this... ?

AM i mssin something?

Thank you very much for your hint.

It worked perfectly for me.

Best regards,

 franz

I was having a similiar problem, there was no 'Search Dropdown' display group, so i created one but the search scopes still were not being displayed on the portal pages.  

There is another setting that must be set in conjunction with the dropdown

Site Settings -> Search Settings

ensure the 'Use custom scopes' radio button is ticked, and the URL refers to the search center results page (as listed in the example).

hth,

jt

The Search Dropdown appears beside the "Display Group" below Title :)

Thanks.  That was helpful.  How do you then get the search scopes to appear in the tabs on the search centre page?

Ditto what Paulie said...  Great, I've got my scopes defined, but how do you actually USE them on the search page?

Hi..

If the managed Property is of type integer then how we can set scope for that.

Example. Is Document is the managed property of type integer. I want this scope to be used in search results. How should i do this?

Thanks for this tip. I had all this settings well defined. But still scopes were not appearing until I checked 'Use custom scopes' radio under Search Settings.

Thanks,

Majid

Hi Chris,

The problem I'm having is that I do not see the "Search Dropdown" link under Site Collection Settings menu > Search Scopes page. Any ideas?

i wasted a bunch of time until i found your article.

thank you very much!

manfred

Go to Site Collection Settings -> Search Scopes -> and create new Display Group and name it "Search Dropdown".

and select scopes that you want to display.

I just spent 3 days trying to get these scopes to show up ....thanks for the information.

"Search Dropdown" is “Suchdropdown” in German, if you have a german Installation...

Ahhh,

Thank you for reminding why I am so happy to not ever have to support, recommend or create custom solutions for SharePoint ever again. With every iteration, MOSS becomes more random and convoluted to the point of complete chaos and unusability.

But... that new MOSS feature is only 17 clicks away! If only you had read the fine print that you didn't know you needed to read on a page that you didn't know existed, you would be so much better off!

This is one product built by Microsoft that I will no longer recommend or support. I refuse to drink the MOSS koolaid anymore. I've never before or since seen a bunch of developers and marketing people so stuck in "group think" about a product that never was. Troubleshooting MOSS is like searching for a better seat on the Titanic.