Tuesday, November 11, 2008

Serverexpress 2008 and sharepoint - contextual search issue



Found this to explain my problem, with the search web part i can redirect any normal scope search to go to serverserver express results page, however when you choose a contextual search (ie this list) which refers to the list or document/picture library you are on the results are always displayed on the OSSearchResults.aspx page... you cannot touch this page as is a system page (unsupported if you do).


Solution: dont use contextual search, set up a scope say 'research documents' , set a rule agains tit to look a this document library using content source = local sharepoint content. Then set up another rule forcing it to look at web folder /research documents/. Change search box in the document library to use scopes not contextual and point advanced and results to use your custom ones for search server.

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