Visual How Tos and Screencasts
These are the Visual How Tos that are recorded for Microsoft.
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The Search Center is a new type of site that is included by default in the site
collection when you provision a collaboration portal. Its goal is to provide users
with a customized search experience, and to replace the search box that is available
at the top of the pages in the portal. There are two editions of the Search Center:
the Search Center Lite and the Search Center with Tabs. The Search Center Lite is
typically added to site collections where the publishing features are not activated.
An example is a site collection with only team sites. The Search Center with Tabs
offers a full customization using a tab-based user interface, but it requires the
publishing features to be active. This is the case by default within collaboration
portals. This article covers two customization options that can be performed in
the Search Center with Tabs: how to add custom search pages and tabs, and, how to
replace the XSLT for the search results with a custom XSLT.
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Lists and document libraries in SharePoint sites typically have extra columns defined
for them. This custom metadata is collected by the crawler when it indexes the contents
of these containers. Administrators can expose this custom metadata to the users
who perform search queries in the Search Center. The Advanced Search page has a
property picker that can be populated with managed properties. This article explains
and illustrates how to expose managed properties to the user, and also explains
how developers can programmatically create managed properties.
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Search scopes in SharePoint Server 2007 are used to narrow the search results returned
to users executing a search query. Search scopes can be shared or locally defined.
You can use different rules in the definition of a search scope, from simply scoping
based on a content source to more complex scoping with conditions using custom metadata.
You can view search scopes in the browser with scope pickers. Scope pickers are
connected to a display group listing the scopes to be displayed.
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Think of a content source as a location containing resources that you want to crawl
or index. In Microsoft Office SharePoint Server 2007, many types of locations are
accessible by default: SharePoint sites, Web sites, network folders, Microsoft Exchange
Server public folders, and data exposed by using the Business Data Catalog. In this
how-to we'll focus on data exposed by using the Business Data Catalog, and discuss
the steps to take when creating and configuring a content source of type Business
Data. We'll also review a sample of how to accomplish the steps programmatically,
using some of the classes exposed in the new search administration API.
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