Create a Search Center in a site collection where the Office SharePoint Server Publishing Infrastructure feature is activated (Office SharePoint Server 2007)

Applies To: Office SharePoint Server 2007

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Topic Last Modified: 2016-11-14

The Search Center (without tabs) is a search-based site for users. If the Office SharePoint Server Publishing Infrastructure feature is activated in the site collection — even if the site collection already has another Search Center or a Search Center with Tabs — you can create a Search Center (without tabs). Search Center does not have built-in people search capability, but you can create and configure a Search Center to enable users to perform a people search in the site collection.

The procedure for creating a Search Center (without tabs) differs depending on whether the Publishing Infrastructure feature is activated or not activated. This article discusses the procedures for creating a Search Center (without tabs) in a site collection where the Publishing Infrastructure feature is activated.

Before you perform the procedures in this article, we recommend that you perform the following procedures to create a search scope and prepare it for use in people search:

• Create a search scope for people search (Office SharePoint Server 2007)

• Map search property metadata for people search (Office SharePoint Server 2007)

• Configure search scope properties for people search (Office SharePoint Server 2007)

• Update a search scope for people search (Office SharePoint Server 2007)

Before you perform these procedures, confirm that:

• You have read the topic Create a Search Center for people search (Office SharePoint Server 2007).

• The system is running either the Standard or Enterprise version of Microsoft Office SharePoint Server 2007.

• You have applied the Infrastructure Update for Microsoft Office Servers (or subsequent service pack). For more information, see Description of the Microsoft Office Servers Infrastructure Update: July 15, 2008 (https://go.microsoft.com/fwlink/?LinkID=121886).

Before you begin

Before you perform these procedures, you must know the following:

• The name of the display group that contains the search scope.

• The name of the search scope that you want to use as the default scope.

• The document library name and the file name of the people search results page. These must be exactly the same as the document library name and the file name that was used for the target results page when the search scope was created. If the names are not exactly the same, no results are returned when a people search is performed.

This article assumes that the search scope and display group you want to use already exist. For more information, see Create a search scope for people search (Office SharePoint Server 2007).

To view the display groups and search scope:

1. Open the top-level site of the site collection where you want to create the Search Center.

2. Click Site Actions, click Site Settings, and then click Modify All Site Settings.

3. On the Site Settings page, in the Site Collection Administration section, click Search scopes.

4. On the View Scopes page, the names of all the display groups are listed in the Title column. Locate the display group to which the people search scope is assigned.

5. The names of the search scopes appear in the Title column, under the Display Group headings. Locate the search scope that was created for the people search.

6. To view the file name of the people search results page:

   1. Point to the search scope for the people search, click the down arrow that appears, and then click Edit Properties and Rules.

   2. On the Scope Properties and Rules page, in the Scope Settings section, click Change scope settings.

   3. On the Edit Scope page, in the Target Results Page section, in the Target results page text box, view the document library name and the file name.

Create a Search Center in a site collection where the Publishing Infrastructure feature is activated

Use the following procedures in the order shown to create a Search Center in a site collection where the Publishing Infrastructure feature is activated.

You perform these procedures in the following order:

1. Create a Search Center

2. Activate site and site collection features

3. Configure the Search Center

4. Create a people search results page

5. Configure the people search results page

Create a Search Center

1. Open the top level site of the site collection where you want to create the Search Center.

2. Click Site Actions, and then click Create Site.

3. On the New SharePoint Site page, in the Title and Description section, in the Title text box, type a name for the Search Center.

4. Optionally, type information about the site in the Description text box.

5. In the Web Site Address section, in the URL name text box, type a file name for the final part of the URL for the Search Center; for example, Northwest. The first part of the URL is automatically provided. Do not type the .aspx file extension in the URL Name box; it is added automatically when the page is created.

6. In the Template Selection section, in the Select a template box, click the Enterprise tab, and then click Search Center.

7. In the Permissions section, select one of the User Permissions options.

8. If the Navigation Inheritance section is available, select whether you want the same top link bar as the parent site.

9. If the Site Categories section is available, select any appropriate category or categories for the Search Center.

10. Click Create. The Search Center opens.

11. If you selected Use unique permissions in the Permissions section, the Set Up Groups for this Site page opens. You can set up permissions for any or all of the three levels of access in the appropriate sections: Visitors to this site, Members of this site, or Owners of this site. You set up permissions for members of an existing user group by selecting Use an existing group; for example, Approvers.

    Alternatively, you create a new group and add users to it by selecting Create a new group, naming the groups, and then typing all of the user names in any of the permissions groups.

    Click OK when finished. The Search Center opens.

Activate site and site collection features

1. Open the top-level site of the site collection where you created the Search Center.

2. Click Site Actions, click Site Settings, and then click Modify All Site Settings.

3. On the Site Settings page, in the Site Collection Administration section, click Site collection features.

4. On the Site Collection Features page, in the Name column, locate Office SharePoint Server Search Web Parts, and look in the Status column. If the Status for this feature is not set to Active, click the Activate button. The Status changes to Active.

5. In the Name column, locate Office SharePoint Server Standard Site Collection features, and then look in the Status column. If the Status for this feature is not set to Active, click the Activate button. The Status changes to Active.

6. Open the Search Center you created in the procedure Create a Search Center.

7. Click Site Actions, and then click Site Settings.

8. On the Site Settings page, in the Site Administration section, click Site features.

9. On the Site Features page, in the Name column, locate Office SharePoint Server Standard Site features, and then look in the Status column. If the Status for this feature is not set to Active, click the Activate button. The Status changes to Active.

Configure the Search Center

1. Delete the Search Box Web Part:

   1. Open the Search Center that was created in the procedure Create a Search Center.

   2. Click Site Actions, and then click Edit Page. The Search Center opens in edit mode.

   3. In the Search Box Web Part, click edit, click Delete, and then click OK.

2. Create the People Search Box Web Part:

   1. Click Add a Web Part in the zone you want; for example, in Top Zone or Bottom Zone. The Add Web Parts dialog box opens.

   2. In the Add Web Parts box, in the Suggested Web Parts section, select People Search Box, and then click Add.

3. Configure the People Search Box Web Part:

   1. In the People Search Box, click edit, and then click Modify Shared Web Part. The People Search Box list appears.

   2. If you want to change the settings for the Scopes Dropdown option, expand the Scopes Dropdown option in the tool pane, click the Dropdown Mode drop-down list, and then select the appropriate option. If you want users to select from all the search scopes in the display group that is assigned to this page when users do a people search, point to the Dropdown Mode list, and then click Show scopes dropdown. If the display group assigned to this page contains only one scope or if it is not intended that users select different scopes, we recommend that you use the default setting Do not show scopes dropdown.

   3. Expand the Miscellaneous option.

   4. Click in the Target search results page URL text box. An ellipsis button (…) appears.

   5. Click the ellipsis button. The Text Entry — Webpage Dialog box opens.

   6. Replace the file name in the list with the exact document library name and file name that was given to the target results page when the search scope was created — for example, PeopleSearchDocumentLibrary/PeopleSearchResultsPage.aspx — and then click OK.

      Important

      If the document library name and search results page file name are not exactly the same, no results are returned when a people search is performed.

   7. In the People Search Box list, in the Miscellaneous section, click in the Scope Display Group text box. An ellipsis button (…) appears.

   8. Click the ellipsis button. The Text Entry — Webpage Dialog box opens.

   9. Replace the name in the list with the name that was given to the display group when the display group was created, for example, Contoso Display Group, and then click OK.

   10. Make any other changes as needed in the People Search Box list, and then click OK.

4. Click Exit Edit Mode to save the changes. The Search Center opens.

Create a people search results page

1. Open the Search Center you created in the procedure Create a Search Center.

2. Click Site Actions, and then click Create.

3. On the Create page, in the Web Pages section, click Web Part Page.

4. On the New Web Part Page page, in the Save Location section, in the Document Library box, if the Document Library text box reads “None Available”, you must create a document library:

   1. Below the Document Library box, click the Document Library link.

   2. On the New page, in the Name and Description section, in the Name box, type the document library name that was used when the search scope was created; for example PeopleSearchDocumentLibrary.

      Important

      If the document library name is not exactly the same in the search scope and in the Document Library text box, no results are returned when a people search is performed.

   3. Optionally, type information about the document library in the Description text box.

   4. In the Navigation section, select whether to display the document library on the Quick Launch.

   5. Click Create. The Document Library page opens.

   6. Click the browser’s Back button twice to return to the New Web Part Page page, and then click the browser’s Refresh option.

5. On the New Web Part Page page, in the Name section, in the Name text box, type the file name for the search results page that was used when the search scope was created; for example, PeopleSearchResults. Do not type the .aspx file extension in the Name box; it is added automatically when the page is created.

   Important

   If the file name is not exactly the same in both the search scope and in the Name text box, no results are returned when a people search is performed.

6. In the Layout section, in the Choose a Layout Template box, select a template to use for the search page.

7. In the Save Location section, in the Document Library box, select the name of the document library in which you want to store the search pages, and then click Create. The people search results page opens in edit mode.

Configure the people search results page

1. Create the People Search Box Web Part and People Search Core Results Web Part:

   1. On the search results page you created in the procedure Create a people search results page, click Add a Web Part in the zone you want; for example, in Top Zone or Bottom Zone. The Add Web Parts dialog box opens.

   2. In the Add Web Parts box, scroll down to the Search section, select People Search Box, and then click Add.

   3. Click Add a Web Part in the zone you want. The Add Web Parts dialog box opens.

   4. In the Add Web Parts box, scroll down to the Search section, select People Search Core Results, and then click Add.

      Note

      If you want the People Search Box and People Search Core Results to be in the same zone, in the Add Web Parts box, scroll down to the Search section, select People Search Box, select People Search Core Results, and then click Add.

2. Configure the People Search Box Web Part:

   1. In the People Search Box, click edit, and then click Modify Shared Web Part. The People Search Box list appears.

   2. If you want to change the settings for Scopes Dropdown, expand the Scopes Dropdown option in the tool pane, click the Dropdown Mode drop-down list, and then select the appropriate option. If you want users to select from all the search scopes in the display group that is assigned to this page when users do a people search, click the Dropdown Mode drop-down list, and then click Show scopes dropdown. If the display group that was assigned to this page contains only one scope or if it is not intended that users select different scopes, we recommend that you use the default setting Do not show scopes dropdown.

   3. Expand the Miscellaneous option.

   4. Click in the Target Search Results Page URL text box. An ellipsis button (…) appears.

   5. Click the ellipsis button. The Text Entry — Webpage Dialog box opens.

   6. Replace the file name in the list with the exact file name that was given to the target results page when the search scope was created — for example, PeopleSearchResultsPage.aspx — and then click OK.

      Important

      If the file names are not exactly the same, no results are returned when a people search is performed.

   7. In the People Search Box list, in the Miscellaneous section, click in the Scope Display Group text box. An ellipsis button (…) appears.

   8. Click the ellipsis button. The Text Entry — Webpage Dialog box opens.

   9. Replace the name in the list with the name that was given to the display group when the display group was created — for example, Contoso Display Group — and then click OK.

   10. Make any other changes as needed, and then click OK.

3. Configure the People Search Core Results Web Part:

   1. In the People Search Core Results box, click edit, and then click Modify Shared Web Part. The People Search Core Results list appears.

   2. Expand the Miscellaneous option.

   3. Click in the Scope box. An ellipsis button (…) appears.

   4. Click the ellipsis button. The Text Entry — Webpage Dialog box opens.

   5. In the list pane, type the name of the scope you want to use as the default scope — for example, Contoso People Search Scope — and then click OK.

      Important

      The name of the scope must be the exactly the same as the scope assigned to the display group that was used in the procedure Configure the Search Center.

   6. In the People Search Core Results list, click OK.

4. Click Exit Edit Mode to save the changes. The search results page opens.