Sridhar's Blog : SharePoint Search/Indexing

Wildcard Search in SharePoint

sridhara — Wed, 30 Jul 2008 03:36:00 GMT

Being able to perform wildcard search is probably an area that's missing in out of the box search in SharePoint. Here's a small web part sample you can use to perform wildcard search in MOSS 2007 (and it can be engineered backward to fit into SharePoint...(read more)

Indexing MSCMS 2001 using MOSS 2007 indexer?

sridhara — Thu, 26 Jun 2008 00:23:00 GMT

This might be a cake-walk for most of you, but I got delayed a bit to get MSCMS 2001 contents indexed using MOSS 2007. Basically what I saw after I setup a content source and started a full crawl was the below warning: The specified address was excluded...(read more)

Project to customize the small search control in SharePoint 2007

sridhara — Sat, 21 Jun 2008 21:48:00 GMT

The small search control that is rendered in the default SharePoint pages is a delegate control rendered through master page. You can find it defined in the master page as follows: < asp : ContentPlaceHolder id ="PlaceHolderSearchArea" runat ="server">...(read more)