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Proposed Answer Your search cannot be completed because of a service error

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      Friday, May 11, 2007 8:57 PM
       
       
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      Hi,

      when I try and search on my sharepoint website I get the error

      Your search cannot be completed because of a service error. Try your search again or contact your administrator for more information.

      I have the Office Sharepoint Server Search running with an admin user and I am using the default SSP, do I need to create a seperate SSP for searching? If I look at the crawl settings the indeax status says -

      Crawling - local Office Sharepoint Server Sites Computer ranking
      Items in index - 0
      content sources 1 defined
      etc

      What settings shouls I be seeing here? any ideas?

      Thanks
       

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    • Saturday, September 01, 2007 1:31 PM
       
       
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      Is the craw stuck? Sometimes you can get away with a content index reset or a service stop and start to kick start your service. Worst case you can rebuild the SSP.

       

      You don't need a seperate SSP.

       
    • Wednesday, March 05, 2008 3:50 PM
       
       
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      I had a problem similar to this, just for reference.  Edit your original SSP and scroll down to the Index Server portion and make sure there is a server selected there.  When I stopped and restarted the service it seemed to remove it.  Once I added the server back in, the error was gone.

       

       

       
    • Tuesday, June 24, 2008 6:49 AM
       
       
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      I get this error "Your search cannot be completed because of a service error. Try your search again or contact your administrator for more information" when i try to search for a custom managed property. I have added a property with the datatype decimal and when i search i get this error.

       

      This is the property def i have specified

      <PropertyDef Name="Sample" DataType="decimal" DisplayName="Test"/>

       

      Any idea why i get this error?? Any suggestions on the workaround?

       

       

       
    • Tuesday, July 22, 2008 4:06 PM
       
       
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      I have the same problem as Ramz VM with a property added with DataType="date" ...

       

      I have tried repopulating the index and also all the other tips apart from rebuilding the SSP, this seems to be a bit excessive, because I merely added a simple property to the search ...

       

       

       
    • Friday, October 17, 2008 5:15 AM
       
       
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      ramz vm, did u find a solution?  I have the exact same issue.  thx.
       
    • Friday, September 04, 2009 9:12 AM
       
       
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      so content index reset can help? I don't want to rebuild the ssp.
      is there anyone tried it out successfully? 
      I have the same issue, when I mapped some properties to some managed properties, then the error occured. 

       
    • Monday, September 07, 2009 7:09 AM
       
       
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      Have you completed a full crawl of your content? You currently have 0 items in the index so of course you cant search...

      Go to > Shared Services Administration: SharedServices > Search Administration > Content sources > Local Office SharePoint Server sites > Start Full Crawl. After you sholuld setup a scedule for Full and Incremental Crawls...


      -Ivan



      Ivan Sanders http://www.linkedin.com/in/iasanders http://dimension-si.com/blog
       
    • Thursday, November 19, 2009 2:58 PM
       
       
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      Allen,
           You will also have to add the custom fields to the Meta Data properties section of the search settings then add them to any scopes you have set up then recrawl the sites.  I hope this helps.
       
    • Thursday, November 19, 2009 4:03 PM
       
       
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      I am writing a blog about this right now it will be up on http://blog.metrostarsystems.com/author/ross-beurmann/ at some point today it goes through the whole process of adding custom fields to the advanced search page step b step.  This should give you everything you need.
       
    • Wednesday, March 03, 2010 4:50 PM
       
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      Hello, I was able to reproduce this error and solve it.

      When quering on a custom managed property, I received the following error:

      "Your search cannot be completed because of a service error"

      I am quering on this custom managed property by calling the following URL:

      /search/results.aspx?k=MyCustomManagedProperty%3A%TESTVALUE%20%22

      It turned out that I made a mistake when configuring the "Search core results" webpart.

      Stupidly enough, I've declared my custom managed property twice in the "Selected Columns" webpart property.

      <root xmlns:xsi="http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema-instance">
      <Columns> 
      <Column Name="Title" />  
      <Column Name="MyCustomManagedProperty" />   
      <Column Name="MyCustomManagedProperty" />  
      etc.

      After deleting the second column (leaving just one) everything worked like a charm ;)

       
    • Wednesday, March 03, 2010 5:23 PM
       
       
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      Please do not propose your own posts. It's not helpful.

      Propose the good answers of other people, but wait for someone else to propose your posts.


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    • Wednesday, March 03, 2010 11:18 PM
       
       
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      Sorry, I wasn't aware of that. Hopefully my post will help someone.
       
    • Thursday, April 29, 2010 5:26 PM
       
       
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      One more person with this issue when adding a custom "Results Type" field.  I added a PDF Results type and when I filter by that result type I get the "Your search cannot be completed because of a service error. Try your search again or contact your administrator for more information." message.
       Searching for PDF's within the "Documents" or "All results" result types return PDF results.

      Thanks.