Summary

This chapter leveraged the search features and configuration along with the Server OM to create a set of solutions that can be used to provide users with easy and intuitive ways to locate relevant sites.

The customizations are grouped as follows:

• Visual Studio 2010

  • Web Part: Creating a custom Web Part that can display related sites based on a keyword property.

• Browser based configuration

  • Configure Search Scopes: Create a Search Scope that automatically filters the content to show only site objects, and excludes any other type of content.

  • Search Results Page: A custom search results page that works with our custom search scope, and also includes some additional Web Parts to enhance the user's ability to find relevant sites.

  • Configure Core Results Web Part: The Core Results Web Part was configured to show our Site Directory and interactive search results.

This chapter showed how you can develop effective solutions that provide easy ways for users to find the relevant sites and resources...