Hi Tej,
The search is executed by the search results page - the SearchBox webpart forwards the query to results page and the context is obtained from the results page. Essentially, "This list" and other searches like that are not valid because of the location of the search results page. If the results page was contained in a document library in a team site, then it might be possible to get these scopes to work, though you would be left with a number of result pages and a new problem to deal with. To work around this, you will need to create your own SearchBox WebPart that passes the additional context information to the search results page. The search results page then needs to grab the additional context information and use it as part of the search. It's not trivial, but it's not rocket science either - I'm sure that someone will create a control like this and post it to the web (nudge to anyone with "spare" time). Regards, Matt From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Kanwartej Singh Basrai Sent: Tuesday, 20 November 2007 2:06 PM To: [email protected] Subject: Re: [OzMOSS] Search scopes Hi Matt, Thanks for the prompt response. I will keep looking and if i come up with a solution i will post it here. but To elaborate on the issue a bit more, Our requirements are to modify the smallsearchinputbox control to point the results to the searchcenter result pages which later on will change to ontolica searchcenter as it supports wildcard searches. I was able to point the all sites and people scopes to the search center result page by modifying 'target results page' setting by editing the scopes. but since the 'This site' and the 'This list scope' are not listed the same cannot be done for those. cheers Tej On 11/20/07, Matt Lynch <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: Hi Tej, Can you elaborate a bit more? I have been dealing with search scopes recently as well, though my focus has been on federating other sites and grouping them into scopes. My current understanding is that "This site" is transient and you can't set up scopes for those. The search box that ships with Search Server includes pointers for these sources and it's also my understanding that these are a exemption to the rule. It's still a beta product and the team is not adverse to change. I would highly recommend posting a feature request, as this type of task should be trivial and it's not. Also, if you work out a way to get this done, I'm all ears! Cheers, Matt From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Kanwartej Singh Basrai Sent: Tuesday, 20 November 2007 1:32 PM To: [email protected] Subject: [OzMOSS] Search scopes Hi All, I am trying to setup a search center for our site collections. Our aim is to show all the search results in the searchcenter/pages/results.aspx page. Currently i am able to setup the scopes like all sites, people to use a results page from search center, but i am unable to do this for the contextual search scopes such as This site: <site name>, This List: announcements, this list: discussions etc. Has anyone done this before or have any ideas for me to try? Any help in this will be much appriciated Cheers Tej ------------------------------------------------------------------- OzMOSS.com - to unsubscribe from this list, send a message back to the list with 'unsubscribe' as the subject. Powered by mailenable.com <http://mailenable.com/> - List managed by www.readify.net <http://www.readify.net/> ------------------------------------------------------------------- OzMOSS.com - to unsubscribe from this list, send a message back to the list with 'unsubscribe' as the subject. Powered by mailenable.com <http://mailenable.com/> - List managed by www.readify.net <http://www.readify.net/> ------------------------------------------------------------------- OzMOSS.com - to unsubscribe from this list, send a message back to the list with 'unsubscribe' as the subject. Powered by mailenable.com - List managed by www.readify.net ------------------------------------------------------------------- OzMOSS.com - to unsubscribe from this list, send a message back to the list with 'unsubscribe' as the subject. Powered by mailenable.com - List managed by www.readify.net
