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Sharepoint search customization - Search-as-you-type (SayT), Find-As-You-Type(FAYT)

I was going through some case studies of search customizations in Sharepoint 2007. I stumbled upon something new!! JQuery for search in sharepoint. That is for implementing 'Search-as-you-type' (SayT) or Find-as-you-Type (FAYT) in sharepoint 2007. It looked so simple and prompted me to give it a try right away. This example uses JQuery and sharepoint web service to get the results for what you are typing. All at client side. No server side code needed. And some of the properties are configurable. Which makes it easier even after you deploy this on production. ;) I implemented it right away, below are some of the screenshots. As soon as you type 3 characters (can be configured), the JQuery will bring out all matching results. You can also use the arrow button (or mouse pointer) and choose the right result and hit enter. Steps to implement Now coming back to the steps for implementing it. It is fairly simple, and can be done in a matter of few minutes. 1. C...

SharePoint (MOSS) AssetPicker (AssetURLSelector) customization

Couple of weeks back I was asked to customize the asset picker to suit client's requirements. The requirement was something like this : there is an ASP.net application running on application server, on click of a button, it should open up the assetpicker from MOSS (SharePoint environment). After the user selects a link and clicks on "OK" button in asset picker, the selected URL must be populated in a label. The challenges faced are related to different server farms of hosted applications. asp.net application is on application server and assetpicker is on SharePoint server. Below are the steps followed to achieve the desired result. 1. CALLINGPAGE.ASPX (this is an plain asp.net application page) This page is part of asp.net application which will be hosted in application farm. This page consists of a “Browse” button on click of which the asset picker will be displayed. To achieve the desired result, we have put an iFrame in the HTML code. This iFrame will not be displayed ...