Friday, August 14, 2009

How to redirect to a custom search page from OSSearchResults.aspx search page


In SharePoint MOSS 2007, when you turn on the custom scope in site collection’s “Search Settings”, most of search results will be displayed at /SearchCenter/Pages/results.aspx. The exceptions are at the contextual search (This site, This List: Documents etc) and it always displays the search result in OSSearchResults.aspx page, which you can not customize through web parts (as you can do with /SearchCenter/Pages/restuls.aspx). This trick seems works very well (original post here):

Open OSSearchResult.aspx in layout folder, and add this block:



I added right after the stylesheet block and I guess you can remove some un-used code block since this page will not be used at all.

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