Create Custom Search Page in SharePoint Server

1) To start full crawl navigate to following path:
Shared Service Administration: SharedServices1 => Search Settings => Content sources and crawl schedules => Full Crawl

2) To create a new scope navigate to following path:
Shared Service Administration: SharedServices1 => Search Settings => View Scopes => New Scope => “MSDN Content” (New defined scope)

Enter following information in the page:
a) Title and Description: MSDN Content
Target Results Page: Specify a different page for searching this scope
Target results page: * => msdnsearch.aspx

b) Scope Rule Type: All Content

3) To add Tab in Search page navigate to Search tab in Home page.
By default Search Centre has two Tabs -- All Sites and People.

To create a search page navigate to following path --
Home => Search tab => Site Actions => Create Page

Enter following information in the page:
a) Title: MSDN Search
b) Page Layout: (Welcome Page) Search Page
c) Press Button Create.
d) Publish page.

To create a search results page navigate to following path --
Home => Search tab => Site Actions => Create Page

Enter following information in the page:
a) Title: MSDN Search Results
b) Page Layout: (Welcome Page) Search Results Page
c) Press Button Create.
d) Publish page.


4) To set the search and search results page for new tab perform following actions:

Navigate to following path:
Home => Search => Tabs in Search Pages => Sites Actions => View All Sites Contents => Lists => Tabs in Search Pages => New => New Item

Enter following information in page:
a) Tab Name: MSDN
b) Page: msdnsearch.aspx
c) Press OK


Navigate to following path:
Home => Search => Tabs in Search Results => Sites Actions => View All Sites Contents => Lists => Tabs in Search Results => New => New Item

Enter following information in page:
a) Tab Name: MSDN
b) Page: msdnsearch.aspx
c) Press OK

5) Now if you go to following path:
Home => Search => MSDN tab

Write some search keyword in Search text and start the search, the search results will be displayed in All Sites tab.

So, to display the search results in the newly created search results page (i.e. msdnsearchresults.aspx) perform following actions:

Navigate to following path:
Site Actions => Site Settings => Modify All site Settings => Site Collection Administration => Go to top level site settings => Site Collection Administration => Search Scopes => New Display Group

Enter following information in page:
a) Title: MSDN
b) Check only: MSDN Content
c) Press OK


Navigate to following path:
Home => Search => MSDN tab => Site Actions => Edit Page => Search Box => Edit => Modify Shared Web Part => Search Box

Set following settings in it:
a) Scopes Dropdown => Show, don not include contextual scope
b) Miscellaneous => Target search results page URL => “msdnsearchresults.aspx” (newly created search result page)
c) Miscellaneous => Scope Display Group => MSDN
d) Press OK
e) Publish page

6) Now the newly created search tab is ready for use.

Search Page with new tab:


Search Result page:



Suggested Links:

1) Creating a Custom Search Page and Tabs in the Search Center of SharePoint Server
http://msdn2.microsoft.com/en-us/library/bb428855.aspx