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This is the final post in a series about creating a robust search U.I. for SharePoint. We have successfully captured each search query submitted through our U.I. and stored them into a normalized schema in our database. So the final question is: “How do we use this information to provide search suggestions to our users?”. [...]

This is a continuation of a series about creating a robust search U.I. for SharePoint. We’ve created our U.I. elements and embedded them into the master page. We’ve also implemented JQuery and connected our U.I. to a web service to populate our auto completion. The next questions is: “How do I populate it the auto [...]

This is a continuation of a series about creating a robust search U.I. for SharePoint. Connecting the U.I. to Search Results We now have our user control embedded on the master page of our site. First we should have the U.I. forwarding the user to the search results upon clicking “Search” or submitting a query. [...]

Probably the greatest out-of-the-box offering from the SharePoint product is search. However, the U.I. for search within SharePoint sites leaves a bit to be desired. The various site templates place the search box in areas on the page, I felt, weren’t prominent enough. Plus, I wanted to offer things like suggestions when searching for people [...]