Thursday, August 5, 2010

Debug Search on a WSS Forms authenticated site

Search on a WSS Forms authenticated site is not returning any results.

The reason being the extended Windows auth site stopped working.
So created a new extended Windows auth site.
Added it to the configured Content sources.
Also updated the Search scope.

How to Add Properties To advanced Search in MOSS 2007

Creating and Exposing Managed Properties in the Advanced Search Page

To make a custom column appear as one of the property restrictions in the SharePoint 2007 Advanced result page, you need to:

(1)Map the crawled property to a managed property.
(2)Edit the XML of the Advanced Search Box webpart to show the managed property.

(1)Central Admin – Shared Services Administration – Search Settings - Metadata Poperty Mappings
(1.1) Add the property.
(1.2) Map the property i.e. ows_...

(2)Add PropertyDef and PropertyRef to Properties XML as show below:





Refn:
http://blogs.msdn.com/b/bgeorgi/archive/2007/03/22/adding-a-custom-property-to-the-advanced-search-box-filters.aspx

http://vspug.com/andymay/2006/11/09/moss-2007-advanced-search-on-your-own-metadata/