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Unanswered Search scope dropdown not appearing on results page

  • Tuesday, January 31, 2012 4:30 PM
     
     
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    Basically I would like to add search scope dropdown on the results page so when users search for something they can trawl other sites without navigating away from the results page.
    But for some reason the dropdown box does not appear at all when inserted into the results.aspx but appears when inserted into the search page.
    Is this a limitation of SharePoint or is there a workaround?
    MOSS 2007

     

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  • Thursday, February 02, 2012 8:29 AM
     
     
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    Hi,

     

    How did you add search scope dropdown to the result page? The search scope dropdown is implemented in a delegate control. To customize it, you can refer to this article:

    http://blogs.msdn.com/b/sridhara/archive/2008/06/21/project-to-customize-the-small-search-control-in-sharepoint-2007.aspx

     

    Which result page are you using, OSSSearchResults.aspx or search center? Or you have created a custom result page? You can try to use search center result page, then you can add search box on it directly. Please check this:

    http://social.technet.microsoft.com/Forums/en-US/sharepointsearch/thread/0e2d8fc6-95c8-47d4-beea-8837f45896e4/

     

    Hope this helps.

     

    Thanks.

    Pengyu Zhao

    TechNet Community Support

     
  • Thursday, February 02, 2012 10:37 AM
     
     
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    I have using search center results page and I am dropping the search box directly onto it (via add web part) but when I publish the page, it does not display the dropdown box, it only displays the search box.

     

     

     
  • Friday, February 03, 2012 6:43 AM
     
     
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    Hi,

     

    If so, you should check if you set the web part property correctly.

     

    Please go to edit page>edit>modify shared web part and find the property Dropdown mode to check if it has been set to Do not show scopes dropdown. If yes, please change it to show scopes dropdown.

     

    Thanks.

    Pengyu Zhao

    TechNet Community Support

     
  • Friday, February 03, 2012 1:54 PM
     
     
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    Yes I have checked that the dropdown mode is set to 'show scopes dropdown' but this has no effect.