When searching the site, notice how the keywords that we use are displayed in the address bar on the results page. For example, when we search for birthday
, we see that the value birthday
is displayed with the name k
(for keyword) in the URL:
http://olmec/share/results.aspx?k=birthday
Why is this good to know? Well, it opens up the possibilities when it comes to providing users with pre-defined searches. If we would like to provide our users with a basic way of searching for chardonnay
, we may hard-code the following URL into a link so that when the user clicks the link they are provided with chardonnay results:
http://olmec/share/results.aspx?k=chardonnay
This means that when we are displaying records in a grid view, we can program SharePoint to display the results of a field (e.g. wine type) as hyperlinks, which will use SharePoint Search to display the results.