Comments on: Wildcard People Search on MOSS 2007

By: Chris

Chris — Thu, 21 Jan 2010 14:47:37 +0000

We’ve expanded on this a slight bit – rather than having different text boxes for the different parts of the name we have created a new “Metadata Property Mappings ” in Share Services Search Admin that is called “searchname” and this has the “Include values from all crawled properties mapped” option checked and then mapped to many fields from the people listing, including a user editable one “Other names” so users can add common misspellings and alternative names they may have – including pre-marriage names – then we simplified the code to remove the if statements, simply to search on “searchname”.

We also have, although not told anyone, Car License plate so we can quickly find “naughty” cars that are blocking others in, or in rare cases, slipping down the car park.

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By: Chris

Chris — Fri, 23 Oct 2009 14:14:54 +0000

The other alternative is to make use of the Sharepount XML thesaurus files (loads of web pages about this) that way you get “Jim” returning “James” and loads of other misspellings that a wildcard may not get – “Cath” and “Kath” for example.

It takes a while to generate you XML file but is another alternative.

By: Leo

Leo — Thu, 23 Jul 2009 09:51:59 +0000

Nice Code. I’ve tried and its work. but how can i search with keyword last character. i.e : “eo” and the result is “Leo”

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By: Ryan

Ryan — Wed, 01 Apr 2009 03:29:20 +0000

Just had to configure it to point to the correct site since mine’s not set up as the default, and it works like a charm! Thanks for the code.

By: Michael Campbell

Michael Campbell — Thu, 05 Mar 2009 05:04:36 +0000

Great quick and easy soltuion

By: Tim Goodgion

Tim Goodgion — Mon, 08 Dec 2008 18:07:38 +0000

This is great code! However, has anyone encountered a problem where the apostrophe in a person’s last name, like O’Brien, causes an error, or no person found?

I’m researching ways to fix this. The double single quotes and the %22 doesn’t work in our farm. The same issues occurs on the Site Contact link. It breaks for a name with an apostrophe.

Any suggestions?

By: Aske

Aske — Mon, 10 Nov 2008 13:01:19 +0000

Hi Ramon – Do you by any change have a similar code for ordinary (not people search) wildcard-search in MOSS 2007?

By: paisleygo

paisleygo — Wed, 05 Nov 2008 17:30:01 +0000

Raj –
You need to remove the quotes from the search term – to get the wildcard to work

skills:C

make sure there is no space between the catgory and the term