SharePoint 2010/MOSS: Searching a List and Viewing the Searched Item, all using Client Side Coding via SharePoint Designer
Its been a while wrting a technical blog post due to the reason that its been a while doing something really technical ;) and exciting and worth mentioning. Now that I have something to write so here we go. Context: Our client required an “Out-of-the-Box-Solution for SharePoint 2007, to search users stored in a custom list. Precisely a textbox and a search button was required on the interface and u pon entering the keyword in the textbox and commanding search, the user is shown the nearest search results. Then upon selecting one of the shown result set, the user is redirect to another page showing a preview of the searched user profile. Here our client explicitly asked for an out of the box solution as they were in the process of migrating to SharePoint 2010, since custom webpart could possibly becomes an additional overhead for the migration process itself. Solution Now after googling for a couple of hours, two solutions struck my mind: Simple Solution: Using ...