Friday, October 3, 2008

Creating a Scope and Tab for MOSS Search Center -By : Scot Hillier

I found a good article from Scot About Creating a Scope and Tab for MOSS Search
Center. Here is a direct link to the Article : Click Here

Create the new Search Center Tab


New tabs for Search Center involve several different parts. First, you must create a
search page. Then you must create a search results page. Finally, you must
associate the scope with the new pages and create tabs to display them. Follow
these steps to get it all working:

1. From the Search Center page, select Site Actions>>Create Page

2. On the Create Page

- Enter HR Documents Search in the Title field
- SharePoint should automatically generate a valid page name
- Select "Search Page" from the list of available Page Layouts
- Click the Create button

3. A new page should now be visible with a Search Box web part

- Select Modify Shared Web Part from the web part's edit menu
- Expand the Miscellaneous section
- Enter HRDocumentsResults.aspx in the Target Search Results Page URL field
(you will create this page next)
- Uncheck the box labeled "Display Advanced Search Link"
- Click the OK button
- Click the Publish button at the top of the page

4. From the new page, select Site Actions>>Create Page

5. On the Create Page

- Enter HR Documents Search Results in the Title field
- SharePoint should automatically generate a valid page name
- Select "Search Results Page" from the list of available Page Layouts
- Click the Create button

6. A new page should now be visible with a several search web parts

- Select Modify Shared Web Part from the Search web part's edit menu
- Expand the Miscellaneous section
- Enter HRDocumentsResults.aspx in the Target Search Results Page URL field
- Uncheck the box labeled "Display Advanced Search Link"
- Click the OK button
- Select Modify Shared Web Part from the Search Core Results web part
- Expand the Miscellaneous section
- Enter HR Documents in the Scope field
- Click the OK button
- Click the Publish button at the top of the page

7. From the new page, select Site Actions>>View All Site Content

8. On the All Site Content page, click the "Tabs in Search Pages" link

9. On the Tabs in Search Pages list, click the New button

10. On the New Item page

- Enter HR Documents in the Tab Name field
- Enter HRDocumentsSearch.aspx in the Page field
- Click the OK button

11. From the list, select Site Actions>>View All Site Content

12. On the All Site Content page, click the "Tabs in Search Results" link

13. On the Tabs in Search Results list, click the New button

14. On the New Item page

- Enter HR Documents in the Tab Name field
- Enter HRDocumentsSearchResults.aspx in the Page field
- Click the OK button

Return to the Search Center home page and you should now see a new tab visible for
HR Documents.

Migrating Site / SubSite / Content and Content Deployment Tool from Chris O' Brien

If you came across situation like these :
* I just need to move this document library from A to B
* I just need to move these selected files (e.g. master page, page layouts, CSS

etc.) from A to B
* I just need to move this web from A to B
* I just need to move this site collection from A to B
* I just need to move these 20 list items from A to B

Then Chris O'Brien is here for rescue.
I know there are other 2 methods to accomplish the same task :

(1) Using Sharepoint designer tool to Backup and restore the site
(2) Stsadm.exe command line tool

The only thing i dint like about these two methods is the limitation of what you can migrate.
Sharepoint designer allows site migration of size with 25 MB or below. Also Both methods
want you to create an empty site before export of data.
Then I found a very handy tool for migrating my stuff from one site collection to another. This
tool designed by Chris O' Brien is so Cool, The migration of Stuff becomes so so easy. It is
a must see tool for all SharePoint Developer. The new and better 1.1 version is released
in CodePlex , This time he has Provided the Code of the Content Deployment Wizard as
well.
You Can Learn about the Product Here
You can learn on product operation Here
You can directly download the latest Version of Product as well as the source code Here

Job done with little pain ;)

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