Comments on: SharePoint People Search – Lessons learned. Part 1: Covering the basics

By: Nemanja

Nemanja — Wed, 30 Dec 2009 07:46:25 +0000

@Waldek: Sorry, I must have misunderstood your post, when you said that the workaround remedies the problem "It doesn’t display anything unless you enter a search query.". I thought it would then allow running the search without parameters. Still, thanks, even getting the users to display this way is great.

By: Waldek Mastykarz

Waldek Mastykarz — Wed, 30 Dec 2009 06:17:35 +0000

@Nemanja: that's how SharePoint works. What would you like to change about it? What would you like to see after clicking the button and not providing any search query?

By: Nemanja

Nemanja — Tue, 29 Dec 2009 08:01:36 +0000

@Waldek: Thanks for your answer. Yes I have, and the users are displayed when I first load the page. The problem happens when I try after that to click the search button with nothing in the search box. I get a javascript pop up with the message I mentioned, and the page does not post back. It is not possible to run a serch with the search box empty.

Thanks

Nemanja

By: Waldek Mastykarz

Waldek Mastykarz — Tue, 29 Dec 2009 06:24:29 +0000

@Nemanja: I described this issue in the first part of the post. Have you tried that?

By: Nemanja

Nemanja — Mon, 28 Dec 2009 16:15:42 +0000

Hi,

Great post, thanks. Can you please help with this problem – when I try to run the search with no keywords in the textbox I get a javascript alert: \"Please enter one or more search words.\", so I can\'t try this out.

Many thanks

Nemanja

By: Waldek Mastykarz

Waldek Mastykarz — Thu, 24 Sep 2009 05:09:36 +0000

@Sean: If I had a similar requirement I would use two eb Parts: one to display the search results and the other to display all people. Additionally, if the Web Part shows all people without paging you could consider searching using JavaScript. Please not that this would allow you to look only for data available within the overview Web Part.

By: Sean

Sean — Thu, 24 Sep 2009 03:52:37 +0000

Hi Waldek,
I tried this and its working perfectly fine. But is there a way to get the search result to the top of the result page while all other people are shown under it. When I pass a search query it doesn’t return the result, rather same result page is displayed (default view). I believe this is because I set the Cross-Web query ID to ‘Query 2’ from ‘User Query’. Can this be done?

Thanks in advance,
Sean.

By: Waldek Mastykarz

Waldek Mastykarz — Tue, 12 May 2009 15:50:06 +0000

@Alonso: As far as I can tell SharePoint groups would only provide you the plumbing for user storage. The rest would be custom development.
Adding a custom property to the User Profile seems a viable solution to make this work. Of course you would have to develop some kind of interface to cover editing that property and approving membership requests. It's not something SharePoint covers out of the box.

By: Alonso

Alonso — Fri, 08 May 2009 11:43:46 +0000

Hi Waldek,

I am trying to implement some kind of Facebook using Sharepoint but I am not sure how would be the best way to implement the functionality that covers users and groups. Basically I want to have groups that any user can join, groups where a user can only join by invitation and groups where a user request to join and then the user waits until the group manager accepts the request. Then a search can be done on groups or users.

I would like to use out of the box funcitionality when possible and not use too much customization.

I was thinking of using user profiles for both, users and groups and for the groups just add a new property to the user profile saying… \"this is a group\". It\'s possible to do but then I don\'t know how to implement the search based on that extended property.

Thank you in advance.
Alonso