How To Extend Wildcard People Search on MOSS 2007

Ramon Scott just posted on his blog on how to perform wildcard people search on MOSS 2007.  His script example, shows how to search for First Name and Last Name.  After reading some of the comments, many were wondering how to implement search on additional search fields.

That’s when I remembered, I had a similiar solution for a client last year; so I figured I’d show you how to extend the wildcard people search in MOSS 2007 to include additional fields other than First Name and Last Name.  At the end of this article, I have included the full script that you can copy into a content editor web part and enable your company to perform wildcard people search.

By the way, if you haven’t already, check out my article on how to enable people search in MOSS 2007.

Helpful Functions

For this example, I have included a drop down list containing the Division / Business Unit the user is part of,  their Job Title, and any additional Keywords you’d like.   As an added bonus, the drop down list for Division / Business Unit is prepopulated from a list library column that you can specify using the function RepopulateList.  It takes three parameters:

(”DivisionDropdown”, “”, “{868c5154-983d-4e0e-be08-b905e975edd9}”, “ows_LinkTitle”)

• controlName - name of the input control you’d like to populate.  In this case,we have our drop down list name and id parameter set to DivisionDropdown
• siteName - the directory of the site where owssvr.dll can be found.  If this is a root site, set it to “”
• lookupListName - the GUID of the list
• textField - the name of column that you would like to retrieve data from

function PeopleSearch()
{
var oKeyword = document.getElementById(”KeywordInput”);
var oFirst = document.getElementById(”FirstNameInput”);
var oLast = document.getElementById(”LastNameInput”);
var oDivision = document.getElementsByName(”DivisionDropdown”);
var oTitle = document.getElementById(”JobTitleInput”);

if(oKeyword == null) {return;}
if(oFirst == null) {return;}
if(oLast == null) {return;}
if(oDivision.length <= 0) {return;}
if(oTitle == null) {return;}

var sKeyword = oKeyword.value;
var sFirst = oFirst.value;
var sLast = oLast.value;

// Build URL so peopleresults.aspx can understand - code emitted
}

function RepopulateList(controlName,siteName,lookupListName,textField)
{
var listEl = document.getElementsByName(controlName);
if(listEl.length > 0)
{
listEl(0).innerHTML = “”;
var opt = document.createElement(”OPTION”);
listEl(0).options.add(opt);
opt.innerText = “”;
opt.value = “”;

//get the list
var reqstring = siteName + “/_vti_bin/owssvr.dll?CS=109&XMLDATA=1&RowLimit=0&List=” + lookupListName;
var req = new ActiveXObject(”MSXML2.XMLHTTP”);
req.open(”GET”,reqstring,false);
req.send();
//load response in XML Document
var doc = new ActiveXObject(”MSXML2.DOMDocument”);
doc.loadXML(req.responseText);
var data = doc.documentElement.childNodes(1);
for (i=0;i<data.childNodes.length;i++)
{
var optionText = data.childNodes(i).attributes.getNamedItem(textField).value;
var opt = document.createElement(”OPTION”);
listEl(0).options.add(opt);
opt.innerText = optionText;
opt.value = optionText;
}
}
}
</script>

<select id=”DivisionDropdown” name=”DivisionDropdown” class=”ms-input” style=”width: 207px”><option value=”"></option></select>
<script language=”javascript” type=”text/javascript”>
if(typeof(RepopulateList)==”function”){RepopulateList(”DivisionDropdown”, “”, “{868c5154-983d-4e0e-be08-b905e975edd9}”, “ows_LinkTitle”);}
// Change bolded text above to GUID of your list
</script>

UPDATE:  I have also noticed that Patrick Tisseghem wrote about a similiar solution on how his blog titled Filtered Lookup Lists in SharePoint.
Download file - Wildcard People Search on MOSS 2007 Extended