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People Finder for SharePoint Foundation 2010
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 Overview

 

​Connected Systems’ Search People for Microsoft SharePoint Foundation 2010 gives you the ability to search contacts within your organisation.

Our fast and flexible people search will import from your Active Directory accounts and contacts to give you a cost effective personnel directory in SharePoint Foundation 2010. With support for photos, you’ll be able to search for colleagues easily and quickly and see what they look like.

SharePoint Foundation 2010 customers now have the opportunity to have a rich and fast people searching facility that can be deployed and configured to support any deployment.

The aims of the Connected Systems Search People Feature for SPF 2010 are to improve on the SharePoint platform by:

  • Leveraging current database infrastructure
    • Only one SQL table required.
    • Support for existing SQL infrastructure or deployed as standalone data store.
  • Easy import of people data
    • Active Directory accounts and contacts supported
    • LDAP query driven support
    • Fast upload of AD accounts or contacts
    • Runs as a SharePoint Timer Job Service on a scheduled basis to refresh people content.
  • Flexible look & feel options
    • XML results returned allow flexible formatting.
    • XSLT results driven web parts.
    • Additional attributes like photos supported
  • Easy configuration and management
    • Fully integrated with Central Administration facility
    • Timer Job synchronisation process

The Connected Systems Search People Feature for SPF 2010 adds significant value to Microsoft SharePoint Foundation 2010 by allowing users to locate their colleagues, their contact details and a photo of each user against their profile data.

 

 Feautures

 

The following feature comparison shows the differences between the Connected Systems People Finder and SharePoint Server 2010 People Search.

Feature Our Product SharePoint Foundation 2010 SharePoint Server 2010

Import Accounts and Contacts from Active Directory

X N/A X
Import runs as Timer Job X N/A X
XML results returned allow flexible formatting X N/A X
Photo support X N/A X
Profile Page support X N/A X
Support for multi-scope search dropdownin Master Page X N/A X
 

 Usage

 
People Finder can replace the Search control in your Master Page to support the selection of both Information and People Search Scopes. This is configure through theSite Actions | Site Settings | Site Administration, select “CS People Search settings”.
 
This supports the setting of the default dropdown selection, the People Search results page and the Information Search results page.

Create Search Pages

Three pages need to be created to perform the People Finder function.
  1. People Finder search page, this page contains the single field search web part.
  2. People Finder advanced search page, this page contains the advanced search web part with multi-field web part.
  3. The Results page, this is the page that both the web parts (search and advanced) and the site search control will use to display the results set.
 

People Finder – Search page

A People Search landing page needs to be created in much the same way a Search Center site is provisioned when installing the SharePoint Search features. The People Finder Search web partsends the search query to the results page. It is the results page web part that actually performs the People Finder query and returnsthe results.
 

People Finder-Advanced Search page

 

People Finder – Results page

A Results Search landing page needs to be created withthePeople Finder Core Results web partadded.This pagedisplays the results of the Search query bypassing in the parametersfrom the People Finder web part.
 
The People Search Finder Core Resultsweb part supports a few configuration settings:
  • Debug mode: This returns the XML viewable in the web part. This make the debugging of XLST a lot easier and shows to configurator what is being returned from the People Finder Service.
  • Search String: This allows for features like “LimitResults” to be passed in to limit the return records up to a particular limit.
  • Results XLST String: This is to support a custom XSLT string and allow for the output to be fully customised.
This is a sample Resultspage. Please note that the photos are displayed beside the names.

User Profile Details page

Once the search results have been returned, selecting a user/contact displays the following user profile page with user details.
 

 Preview

 

 

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