Comments on: How To Configure Employee Lookup Web Part Series - Part 2

By: How To Enable People Search - How To Enable People SearchSharepoint BUZZ

How To Enable People Search - How To Enable People SearchSharepoint BUZZ — Tue, 22 Jan 2008 16:18:44 +0000

[...] lookup web part is, configuring user profile import and defining the AD data connection. While Part 2 walked the administrator thru initiating user profile import and enabling the employee lookup web [...]

By: pitbullblonde

pitbullblonde — Thu, 13 Sep 2007 17:47:06 +0000

I’m having a different issue with Employee Lookup - I get page not found when I use it - but the search tab on top works, and the search link on the left of the page works. The two that work go to:

http://ajsp01/sites/ApacheJunction/SearchCenter/Pages/peopleresults.aspx?k=corey

the employee lookup webpart goes to:

http://ajsp01/searchcenter/Pages/peopleresults.aspx?k=corey

which results in page not found. Not sure why all the search links aren’t going to the same url….When I go in to modify the web part, under the Advanced section, under Import Error Message it says ‘Canot import this web part’. This is on my portal using the collaboration portal site template.

I’ve already done the AD import, and searching for employees works fine with the search page at:

http://ajsp01/sites/ApacheJunction/SearchCenter/Pages/default.aspx

which I get to using the search link on the left or the search tab at the top of the page.

Any ideas on what caused this to happen or how to fix it?

By: Sriram

Sriram — Mon, 02 Jul 2007 22:29:54 +0000

Looks like this is not applicable to WSS 3.0 (or is it?)…

By: Wim

Wim — Wed, 06 Jun 2007 07:37:30 +0000

I need URGENT assistance. Refer to reply no 1 by Guido -
I need to setup a page or webpart that can display the following by Friday 08 June

1) Employee name & Surname
2) Telephone & fax numbers
3) E-mail address
4) Maybe add a photograph
5) If possible a “Notes” section that specifies - Years of experience, fields of practice, etc

The employee data must be filtered / pulled in from Active Directory. I have successfully setup the connection as stipulated in this article.
PLEASE if anyone can help.

Ciao!
Wim

By: sharepointbuzz

sharepointbuzz — Fri, 25 May 2007 04:43:44 +0000

Puneetn - thanks for your comment
Ryan Boyle - not sure if you have had a chance to import user profiles as on the same page you can define other properties / meta data to import. If you dont know where, leave a comment and I will get back to you ASAP

Judy Z - Just as Ryan requested, you have to make sure all groups are included. This depends on your content source definition and what OUs you are pulling in
Venkat - after following this article, word per word, are you still have problems?

Penny - creating a scrollable list or a printable list can be easily achieved as the information is in the database

By: Penny

Penny — Wed, 16 May 2007 19:41:27 +0000

Did anyone figure out how to show a scrollable list of AD users as a web part or just a list? We are successfully importing from AD and can search profiles but would like a list as well.

Thanks in advance!

Penny

By: venkat

venkat — Tue, 15 May 2007 11:31:43 +0000

Hi, the article was very useful to configure. But for me, still the web part is not working. It is saying ‘page not found’ though the page exists in my system. The target path in the web part is /searchcenter/Pages/peopleresults.aspx. Can anyone pls help me…

By: Judy Z

Judy Z — Fri, 04 May 2007 18:08:32 +0000

You write in the article that “many of the properties are not included and only the name and the email addresses were imported” - We are having trouble getting the members of an Active Directory security group to update. Are these the properties that are not included in the Active Directory update in MOSS 2007? If so, what can be done, as these are very important?

By: Ryan Boyle

Ryan Boyle — Fri, 30 Mar 2007 03:04:04 +0000

GREAT Article!!! — Helped me out tremendously!

One quick ? for you however. I need to be able to pull more information from AD when SharePoint does the import (such as Address, City, St, etc.)

Where would I set these parameters up at. Other then that I’m golden right now!

Thanks again for the great article — this was the only thing i was missing up untill 5 min ago

Boyle!

By: puneetn

puneetn — Sun, 25 Mar 2007 21:28:24 +0000

Well actually you can get prefix match OOB. Though it isnt necessarily exposed appropriately.
Say you have a managed property FirstName and you search for FirstName:phil it will bring back Phil, Philip etc.
Prefix match is not done for FirstName:”Phil” (notice the quotes which tells it that this is an exact phrase match). Unfortunately the search options UI uses the quotes which prevents prefix matches.