Sharepoint default search box

Customized search box

Search for the Content place holder PlaceHolderSearchArea

Add the property visible=”false” to the PlaceHolderSearchArea

As shown in below image:

Hiding the PlaceHolderSearchArea

Now, choose the place where you want to put the customized search box or write a new tag <td></td> below the PlaceHolderSearchArea closing </td> tag

Go to the menu Task Panes > Web parts (Select the Web parts, if is not already selected)

Select the Search Box web part form he Web part List, Click on Insert Selected Web part (which inserts the web part in to the area you have choosen)

Now, add the tag <DropDownModeEx xmlns=”urn:schemas-microsoft-com:SearchBoxEx”>HideScopeDD</DropDownModeEx> into the newly added Search Box web part

As shown in the below image:

Customized search box tag

Add one more tag in to the search box code, to display the default value (Enter keyword…) while the search box is empty<QueryPromptString xmlns=”urn:schemas-microsoft-com:SearchBoxEx”><b>Enter Keyword…</b></QueryPromptString>

As shown in the below image:

Customized search box tag

Output: Customized search box

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• Go site action > Site Settings
• Click on Sites and Workspaces
• Create Search site using ‘Search Center’ template (which is under Enterprise tab)
• After creating the ‘Search Center’ site, browse to the site and copy the url
• Return back the main home page, then go to ‘Site Action’ > Site Settings
• Under ‘Site Collection Administration’ section click on ‘Search settings’
• Select the radio button ‘Use custom scopes’ and paste the url of ‘Search Center’ which should end with ‘/’ (slash) (for example: if the Search Center url is like http://fivenumber/searchcenter/default.aspx, you should write only /searchcenter/) in the custom scopes textbox and then click ‘OK’
• The search control acts dynamically depends upon the user input, when user want to search the content the results will be shown in results.aspx, when the user clicks on advanced search link it will redirects to advanced.aspx

But when I type keywords to search my business data (business data is nothing but apart from content database like Adventureworks, Northwind etc.) in sharepoint site, I was unable to view the single result, though the search is configured well for sharepoint site.

I did R & D on this and came to know that we should configure the search settings explicitly in the shared service administration for business data to display the results in sharepoint results.aspx

In this post we learn how to configure search for business data.

Steps:

• Go to Shared Service home page, under Search section click on Search Settings

Shared Services Home

• In the Configure Search Settings page click on Content sources and crawl schedules

Configure Search Settings Page

• In the Manage Content Sources page click on New Content Source which create new content source

Create New Content Source

• In the Add Content Source page type Name of the content source in the appropriate box, select the content source type as Business Data, under Applications select Crawl entire Business Data Catalog to crawl all application in the Business Data Catalog, else select Crawl selected applications to crawl specific application(s) and select the application instance then click OK.

Add Content Source

• Now we are almost done, it takes some time to crawl the content source, wait for few minutes, to see the search result(s) type the keyword related to the business data in sharepoint search box, now I want to check the results and I will type Race keyword which is there in the business data and now I can see the results perfectly

Business Data Results