SPS 2003 - Searching - Hiding Document Lists

[dlongnecker]

Is there a way to hide the "List Items" from being searched in a specific site?

In one of our sites, there the document library structure has folders that are very close to the names of the documents they contain. When searching for a document, it displays all of the "list items" first and the documents below that. This has been quite confusing for our users and it was requested that the List items be hidden from the search.

Can this be removed by editing the page or is there a setting that can remove it ONLY for this site?

Thanks in advance!

-David


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David R. Longnecker
Web Developer
CCNA, MCSA, Network+, A+
Management Information Services
Wichita Public Schools, USD 259

 

[Thomas2000]

Hello,

Are you running WSS or SPS? In WSS you have by default very limited options configuring the search. With the Portal you should be able to include and exclude content to be indexed.

Regards,
Thomas

 

[ChaserNL]

In WSS you could hide the list item results by editing the search result page... it did it some time ago there is an article or post on this somewhere, just search for it!

 

[Thomas2000]

And if I had read the heading for the post I would not have had to ask if WSS or SPS was used since it is stated there! (sorry 'bout that!)

I have been configuring my search a bit for our SPS environment, however it is not populated with many documents yet only indexing intotal some 5000 documents (incl. SPS pages etc.)

But with a bit of configuring it should be possible to exclude certain parts with out to much work.

Regards,
Thomas

 

[ChaserNL]

LoL i missed it too.. but then again some people use SPS 2003 as SharePoint Services 2003

 

[dlongnecker]

ChaserNL/Thomas2000-

To catch a few things: Yeah, SPS2003 = SharePoint Portal Server. Sorry about that. Just used to SPS over time.

I've hunted around on how to edit the search results page to no avail (hence why I posted), so far... I'll keep looking. Everytime I hit the results page, the FP2003 icon greys out and searching the site makes it appear that the search results are either a) standardized and modifying the search_results.aspx file (if I can find it) would modify EVERY site in the Portal or b) dynamically created by the application.

Either way, I'll keep searching.

Thanks!



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David R. Longnecker
Web Developer
CCNA, MCSA, Network+, A+
Management Information Services
Wichita Public Schools, USD 259

 

[ChaserNL]

Ill take a look for u i know its out there i have done it before so... but i am going to set up a sharepoint server this evening for my compagny and tommorrow i have a day of but ill see if i can find something!

 

[ChaserNL]

I found the page... delete little bits at a time:

C:\Program Files\Common Files\Microsoft Shared\web server extensions\60\TEMPLATE\LAYOUTS\1033\searchresults.aspx

I'll try to fin the original post.. i believe you needed to leave the placeholders in place...

 

[dlongnecker]

ChaserNL-

Yeah, that's the page I anticipated, however, as stated above, the templates will affect all sites in the portal. Our hundreds of other sites would be quite upset if we change how the search pages filter information. I'll give it a shot on a development server and see how it works...

-David

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David R. Longnecker
Web Developer
CCNA, MCSA, Network+, A+
Management Information Services
Wichita Public Schools, USD 259

 

[ChaserNL]

It should have an effect on all none ghosted pages that being propably all search results pages..