It’s a very often requirement to create a Search Scope for document contents either in SharePoint 2007 or 2010. The steps are the same in both version, the only difference is the place where you found these settings: in MOSS 2007, you have to go to the Shared Services administration, but in SharePoint Server 2010 these settings can be found at the Search Service Application(s).
The steps of creating the ‘Documents’ scope are the followings:
- Go to the ‘Metadata Properties’ list, open the IsDocument property, and set it’s ‘Allow this property to be used in scopes’ property.
- Save the changes.
- Go to the ‘Scopes’ page and click ‘New Scope’.
- Set the title of the new scope to ‘Documents’.
- After saving and creating the new scope, add a rule with the following settings:
- Sope Rule Type: Property Query
- Property query: IsDocument = 1.
- Behavior: Include.
- Go back to the Search Administration page, and start an update for the scopes manually (‘Start update now’), or wait for the next scheduled update.
After performing these steps, your scope will be ready to be used immediately.
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