Working for one my projects we were looking for a solution to only retrieve search results for a specific Content Source. In our scenario we had a External Content Type that was linked to a “FilteredEMail” view of a CRM database. We connected CRM to SharePoint in this scenario because searching in CRM for a…
At the moment we are creating a portal based on host named site collections. The root site collection needs to display the sub site collections you have access to. To give you a better understanding of what we created take a look at the following image: Every site in the above image is a host…
When you work on SharePoint project you often see solutions that are built by using the search engine of SharePoint. To perform queries against the search engine you define ‘Metadata properties’ these metadata properties need to be mapped to a column within SharePoint. Here comes the first problem when you define those properties through the…
This is a walkthrough for the configuration of SharePoint Search. Central Administration Navigate to Central Administration Shared Service Provider Select you ‘Shared Service Provider’. They are listed at the left side of you screen in the middle. Search Settings In the main window of the Shared Service Provider select ‘Search Settings’ Content Sources and Crawl…