SharePoint: Custom Search Scopes
August 18, 2008
A reader sent me a link to SearchWinIT at TechTarget.com. The article explains how to “Create Custom Global Search Scopes in Microsoft SharePoint 2007.” The author is Natalya Voskresenskaya, and you can read the full text here. A “search scope” is a narrowing function. It’s somewhat like setting up a collection of documents and then routing specific users’ queries to that collection. The idea is that the content in the scope (“collection”) will be more appropriate. For example, the marketing department needs access to content from two departments and the documents reside in specific folders. A scope allows a user in marketing to get hits from that specific subset of content. SharePoint has other documents in its index, but the marketing person sees documents from that scope. The article does a good job of explaining the procedure to set up a scope.
Stephen Arnold, August 18, 2008
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