SharePoint Search Service Application recovery + WCF Endpoint

Wed, 17 Jan 2018 11:58:09 +0000

I recently had some fun and games trying to fix a broken SharePoint Search Service Application. Although I’m not entirely what caused the issue (other than, you know, SharePoint) although it may be to do with changing the Farm Passphrase but one way or another it was, fooked.

I opted to just delete it and create a new one. This didn’t go well. A new application was created, but it, also, was dead.

As many people have found, Central Admin and Remove-SPServiceApplication have a habit of doing entirely nothing when it comes to remove broken Search Applications.

SharePoint 2010 + Search within document sets

Mon, 05 Mar 2012 15:15:43 +0000

I could play a game of “state the obvious” and say that SharePoint 2010 search is powerful. It’s really an incredible beast - and that’s even without any FAST goodies in there. But something that isn’t obviously supported OOTB but seems there’s a few people out there trying to do - search within folders, or in my case, Document Sets. SharePoint search was already configured and, actually, I could search within document sets, by doing a site wide search and then using the refinement panel (on the left hand side of a search result page in a search center) to narrow it down to my document set. What I wanted to do was perform this search directly from a search box.

As you use the refinement panel, you’ll notice that the URL changes, as you stack up the filters, and as it happens, that’s all that’s required is a properly crafted URL:

<br /> http://yoursite/_layouts/OssSearchResults.aspx?k=[searchterms] <strong>site:"http://yoursite/yourlibrary/yourdocset"</strong>

Note the highlighted part - you can restrict your search results to a specified document set (or folder) by supplying the URL in to the site: refinement option/filter.

With that bit taken care of, the challenge was to get a searchbox that would do this dynamically - i.e., craft the URL properly to apply the filter and direct through to the search results page properly. It’s possible using a standard search box and the trusty old Content Editor.

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SharePoint Search Service Application recovery + WCF Endpoint

SharePoint 2010 + Search within document sets