Column validation formula for time value only input in a single line of text field.

Here is a Column validation formula for time value only input in a single line of text field:
=TIMEVALUE(TimeText)<>TEXT(TimeText;"hh:mm")

Search Refinement Panel is not so MUI after all

"Out of the box SharePoint 2010 offers a search refinement panel that works great as long as you don’t use multiple languages. After some testing with search and the refinement panel I noticed that the Managed Metadata wasn’t changing when I was switching languages."
Ventigrate offers a MUI Search Refinement Panel on CodePlex.
Read more on Timmy Gilissen's blog: http://www.moss2007.be/blogs/timmy/archive/2011/12/13/mui-refinement-panel.aspx

Select multiple Refiners via the UI with xsl & js (part 2)

Just by extending the XSL of the Refinement Panel and adding a little javascript it is possible to select multiple Refiners via the UI:

After selection of multiple Refiners:

Add the following javascript to the Search results page:

<script type="text/javascript">
function Filter(url)
{
var inputs = document.getElementsByTagName("input");
var idValues = [];
for (var i = 0; i < inputs.length; i++) {   
  if ((inputs[i].type == "checkbox") && (inputs[i].checked)) {
idValues.push((GetUrlKeyValue("r",false,inputs[i].value)).substr((GetUrlKeyValue("r",false,url)).length));
}}
window.location = SP.Utilities.UrlBuilder.replaceOrAddQueryString(url, "r", GetUrlKeyValue("r",false,url)+decodeURI(idValues.toString().replace(/\,/g,"%20")));
}
</script>

(2012-03-01) Correction: changed the boolean value in all three GetUrlKeyValue functions to false.

Extend the XSL of the Filterlink template in the Refinement Panel web part:

  <xsl:template name="FilterLink">
    <xsl:param name="Url"/>
    <xsl:param name="UrlTooltip"/>
    <xsl:param name="Value"/>
    <xsl:param name="FilterSelection"/>
    <xsl:param name="ShowCounts"/>
    <xsl:param name="Count"/>
    <xsl:param name="Percentage"/>
    <xsl:param name="Indentation"/>
    <!-- HW -->
    <xsl:param name="ManagedProperty" />
    <!-- HW -->
    <xsl:variable name="SecureUrl">
      <xsl:call-template name="GetSecureUrl">
        <xsl:with-param name="Url" select="$Url" />
      </xsl:call-template>
    </xsl:variable>
    <li class="ms-searchref-filter {$FilterSelection}">
      <xsl:if test="($Indentation = '1')">
        <span class="ms-searchref-indenticon">&#8627;&#160;</span>
      </xsl:if>
      <!-- HW -->
      <xsl:if test="($ManagedProperty = 'Author' or $ManagedProperty = 'FileExtension') and $FilterSelection != 'ms-searchref-unselected' and not(starts-with($Value, 'Any '))">
        <input name="{$Value}" type="checkbox" align="center" title="OR {$Value}" value="{$SecureUrl}" checked="yes" />
      </xsl:if>
      <xsl:if test="($ManagedProperty = 'Author' or $ManagedProperty = 'FileExtension') and $FilterSelection = 'ms-searchref-unselected' and not(starts-with($Value, 'Any '))">
        <input name="{$Value}" type="checkbox" align="center" title="OR {$Value}" value="{$SecureUrl}" />
      </xsl:if>
      <xsl:choose>
        <xsl:when test="(starts-with($Value, 'Any Result Type') or starts-with($Value, 'Any Author')) and $FilterSelection != 'ms-searchref-unselected'">
          <a href="javascript:Filter('{$SecureUrl}')"><img align="absmiddle" src="/_layouts/images/filter.gif" border="0" title="Join selected Refiners"/></a>
        </xsl:when>
        <xsl:when test="(starts-with($Value, 'Any Result Type') or starts-with($Value, 'Any Author')) and $FilterSelection = 'ms-searchref-unselected'">
          <a href="{$SecureUrl}"><img align="absmiddle" src="/_layouts/images/filteroff.gif" border="0" title="Reset selected Refiners"/></a>
        </xsl:when>
        <xsl:when test="starts-with($Value, 'Any ')">
          <img align="absmiddle" src="/_layouts/images/asterisk.png" border="0" />
        </xsl:when>
        <xsl:when test="$ManagedProperty = 'SiteName'">
          <a href="http://{$Value}" target="_blank" title="Open site in new window"><img align="absmiddle" src="/_layouts/images/SharePointFoundation16.png" border="0" /></a>
        </xsl:when>
        <xsl:when test="ddwrt:MapToIcon('', $Value) != 'icgen.gif'">
          <img align="absmiddle" src="/_layouts/images/{ddwrt:MapToIcon('', $Value)}" border="0" />
        </xsl:when>
        <xsl:when test="$Value = 'Word'">
          <img align="absmiddle" src="/_layouts/images/icdocx.png" border="0" />
        </xsl:when>
        <xsl:when test="$Value = 'Excel'">
          <img align="absmiddle" src="/_layouts/images/icxlsx.png" border="0" />
        </xsl:when>
        <xsl:when test="$Value = 'PowerPoint'">
          <img align="absmiddle" src="/_layouts/images/icpptx.gif" border="0" />
        </xsl:when>
        <xsl:when test="$Value = 'Webpage'">
          <img align="absmiddle" src="/_layouts/images/icaspx.gif" border="0" />
        </xsl:when>
        <xsl:when test="$ManagedProperty = 'Author'">
          <a href="/SearchCenter/Pages/peopleresults.aspx?k={$Value}" target="_blank" title="Search for user profile"><img align="absmiddle" src="/_layouts/images/ACA16.gif" border="0" /></a>
        </xsl:when>
        <xsl:otherwise>
          <img align="absmiddle" src="/_layouts/images/{$Value}.gif" onError="this.src='/_layouts/images/bullet.gif';" border="0" />
        </xsl:otherwise>
      </xsl:choose>
      <xsl:text> </xsl:text>
      <!-- HW -->
      <a class="ms-searchref-filterlink" href="{$SecureUrl}" title="{$RefineByHeading}: {$UrlTooltip}">
        <xsl:value-of select="Value"/>
      </a>
      <xsl:choose>
        <xsl:when test="($ShowCounts = 'Count') and ($Count != '')">
          <span class="ms-searchref-count">
            <xsl:if test="$IsRTL = 'True'">&#x200f;</xsl:if> 
            (<xsl:value-of select="Count"/>)
          </span>
        </xsl:when>
        <xsl:when test="($ShowCounts = 'Percentage') and ($Percentage != '')">
          <span class="ms-searchref-count">
            <xsl:if test="$IsRTL = 'True'">&#x200f;</xsl:if> 
            (<xsl:value-of select="format-number($Percentage, '0%')"/>)
          </span>
        </xsl:when>
      </xsl:choose>
    </li>
  </xsl:template>

That's all folks!

Notice: The Display Language should be English, because I check for the word 'Any' in the XSL. You can/should adjust this by yourself in rows 30, 33, 36 for your preferred language.

Zip file with two webparts:
- HTML Form Web Part.dwp with navigation and the javascript;
- Refinement Panel.webpart with the extended XSL and customized categories.
Add the web parts to the Left Zone in the Search results page, and remove the original Refinement Panel web part.

References:
- See how to propagate the ManagedProperty parameter;
- Working with URLs in SharePoint 2010 JavaScripts;
- Helpful SharePoint JavaScript functions.

Select multiple Refiners in the same category (part 1)

The selection of multiple Refiners in the same category is possible out of the box.

For instance if we select the Word refiner in the Result Type category it will show us the following url:

According to the Keyword Query Syntax Reference Multiple Property Restrictions work like this: When you use multiple instances of the same property restriction, matches are based on the union of the property restrictions in the keyword query. This is functionally the same as using the OR Boolean operator.
So if we just add "%20fileextension%3D%22pdf%22" to the URL it will get us Word OR Pdf documents as a result.

The nice thing is that the XSL recognizes both refiners as selected.

Even the deselection of a selected refiner is working.
In this case, if we would deselect the Word refiner, the url is correct:
http://sp2010/SearchCenter/Pages/results.aspx?k=sharepoint&r=fileextension%3D%22pdf%22
But on the other hand if we would deselect the Pdf refiner the logic is broken. When multiple instances of the same property are used -like Word- the url is not correctly processed: the spaces (OR) are replaced by AND. This will show us no results of course.

Another example of selection of multiple refiners is with the Author category. The author can/will show us 2 names: the original author from the document property, and the one that created the document (by upload).

First we select the original author of the document.

Then we select the creator of the document.

The deselection of a selected author is working fine.

Conclusion:
So the selection of multiple refiners in the same category is possible but the UI doesn't provide the full and correct navigation for it.

In part 2 I will try to overcome this.

The Ugly, the Bad and the Good (part 4)

Part 4. Revisited

I was still not satisfied with the possibilities I came up with to get the right icon for every filter value in the Refinement panel.
I wanted to be able to add a specific icon to the Refiner values belonging to the Filter category 'Author' for instance.

Therefore I had to promote the ManagedProperty parameter, so its value would be available in the FilterLink template.

Here is the complete XSL that can replace the original one. Add this via the XSL Editor of the Refinement Panel webpart:

<?xml version="1.0" encoding="utf-8"?>
<xsl:stylesheet version="1.0" xmlns:xsl="http://www.w3.org/1999/XSL/Transform" xmlns:ddwrt="http://schemas.microsoft.com/WebParts/v2/DataView/runtime">
  <xsl:output method="xml" indent="no"/>
  <xsl:param name="RefinementPanelCaption"></xsl:param>
  <xsl:param name="QueryId"></xsl:param>
  <xsl:param name="TagsCategoryId"></xsl:param>
  <xsl:param name="MetadataServiceUrl"></xsl:param>
  <xsl:param name="IsUIRightToLeft"></xsl:param>
  <xsl:param name="ApplyButtonText"></xsl:param>
  <xsl:param name="CancelButtonText"></xsl:param>
  <xsl:param name="CurrentLcid"></xsl:param>
  <xsl:param name="MoreLinkPanelIDSuffix"></xsl:param>
  <xsl:param name="IdPrefix" />
  <xsl:param name="IsDesignMode">True</xsl:param>
  <xsl:param name="RefineByHeading">Refinement</xsl:param>
  <xsl:param name="IsRTL">False</xsl:param>

  <xsl:template match="FilterPanel">
    <xsl:variable name="FilterCategories" select="FilterCategory" />
    <xsl:variable name="CategoryCount" select="count($FilterCategories)" />
    <xsl:if test="($CategoryCount &gt; 0)">
      <xsl:call-template name="FilterCategory">
        <xsl:with-param name="Categories" select="$FilterCategories" />
      </xsl:call-template>
    </xsl:if>
  </xsl:template>

  <xsl:template name="FilterCategory">
    <xsl:param name="Categories" />
    <xsl:if test="$RefinementPanelCaption != ''">
      <div class="ms-searchref-caption">
        <xsl:value-of select="$RefinementPanelCaption" />
      </div>
    </xsl:if>
    <xsl:for-each select="$Categories">
      <xsl:variable name="FilterCategoryId" select="concat(@Id,$IdPrefix)"/> 
      <xsl:variable name="TagsId" select="concat($TagsCategoryId,$IdPrefix)"/> 
      <xsl:variable name="ColumnId" select="substring(@Id,10)"/> 
      <xsl:variable name="FilterCategoryType" select="@Type"/> 
      <xsl:variable name="ManagedProperty" select="@ManagedProperty"/>
      <xsl:variable name="SSPList" select="substring-before(CustomData/AssociateTermSets, '|')"/>
      <xsl:variable name="TermSetList" select="substring-after(CustomData/AssociateTermSets, '|')"/>
      <xsl:variable name="ShowMoreLink" select="translate(@ShowMoreLink,'abcdefghijklmnopqrstuvwxyz','ABCDEFGHIJKLMNOPQRSTUVWXYZ')"/> 
      <xsl:variable name="FreeFormFilterHint" select="@FreeFormFilterHint"/> 
      <xsl:variable name="MoreLinkText" select="@MoreLinkText"/> 
      <xsl:variable name="LessLinkText" select="@LessLinkText"/> 
      <xsl:variable name="ShowCounts" select="@ShowCounts"/> 
      <xsl:variable name="DisplayName" select="@DisplayName"/>   
      <xsl:variable name="EscapedDisplayName" select="CustomData/EscapedDisplayName"/>   
      <xsl:variable name="ShowTaggingControl" select="@ShowTaggingControl"/>   
      <div class="ms-searchref-categoryname">
        <xsl:value-of select="$DisplayName"/>
      </div>
      <ul class="ms-searchref-filters" id="TopFilters_{$FilterCategoryId}">
        <xsl:choose>
          <xsl:when test="$FilterCategoryType = 'Message'">
            <xsl:for-each select="Filters/Filter">
              <xsl:call-template name="FilterMessage">
                <xsl:with-param name="Value" select="Value" />
              </xsl:call-template>
            </xsl:for-each>
          </xsl:when>
          <xsl:otherwise>
            <xsl:call-template name="Filter">
              <xsl:with-param name="Filters" select="Filters/Filter" />
              <xsl:with-param name="ShowCounts" select="$ShowCounts" />
    <!-- HW: Begin -->
    <xsl:with-param name="ManagedProperty" select="$ManagedProperty" />
    <!-- HW: End -->
            </xsl:call-template>
          </xsl:otherwise>
        </xsl:choose>
      </ul>
        <xsl:if test="$ShowMoreLink='TRUE'">
          <xsl:variable name="MoreFilters" select="MoreFilters/Filter" />
          <xsl:choose>
            <xsl:when test="$FilterCategoryId and ($FilterCategoryId != '') and ($FilterCategoryType = 'Microsoft.Office.Server.Search.WebControls.ManagedPropertyFilterGenerator')">
              <xsl:variable name="MoreDivId" select="concat('RefinementMore_', $QueryId, $FilterCategoryId)" />
              <xsl:variable name="LessDivId" select="concat('RefinementLess_', $QueryId, $FilterCategoryId)" />
              <xsl:if test="$MoreFilters != ''">
                <a class="ms-searchref-more" href="javascript:{{}}" onclick="SearchEnsureSOD();ToggleRefMoreLessFilters(this, true);">
                  <div class="ms-searchref-morelink">
                    <xsl:value-of select="$MoreLinkText" />
                    <xsl:text disable-output-escaping="yes">&amp;nbsp;</xsl:text>
                    <img src="/_layouts/images/more_arrow.png" class="ms-searchref-moreicon" />
                  </div>
                </a>
                <ul class="ms-searchref-filters" id="MoreFilters_{$FilterCategoryId}" style="display:none">
                  <xsl:call-template name="Filter">
                    <xsl:with-param name="Filters" select="$MoreFilters" />
                    <xsl:with-param name="ShowCounts" select="$ShowCounts" />
     <!-- HW: Begin -->
     <xsl:with-param name="ManagedProperty" select="$ManagedProperty" />
     <!-- HW: End -->
                  </xsl:call-template>
                </ul>
                <a class="ms-searchref-more" href="javascript:{{}}" onclick="SearchEnsureSOD();ToggleRefMoreLessFilters(this, false);" style="display:none">
                  <div class="ms-searchref-morelink">
                    <xsl:value-of select="$LessLinkText" />
                    <xsl:text disable-output-escaping="yes">&amp;nbsp;</xsl:text>
                    <img src="/_layouts/images/less_arrow.png" class="ms-searchref-moreicon" />
                  </div>
                </a>
              </xsl:if>
            </xsl:when>
            <xsl:when test="$FilterCategoryId and ($FilterCategoryId != '') and ($FilterCategoryType = 'Microsoft.Office.Server.Search.WebControls.TaxonomyFilterGenerator')">
              <xsl:variable name="IsTagsColumn" select="$FilterCategoryId = $TagsId" />
              <xsl:if test="$MoreFilters != ''">
                <a id="{$MoreLinkPanelIDSuffix}_{$FilterCategoryId}" href="javascript:{{}}" class="ms-searchref-more" onclick="SearchEnsureSOD();RenderTaggingControl('{$FilterCategoryId}', {$IsTagsColumn}, '{$SSPList}', '{$TermSetList}', '{$MetadataServiceUrl}', {$CurrentLcid}, '{$MoreLinkPanelIDSuffix}', '{$EscapedDisplayName}', {$ShowTaggingControl}, {$IsUIRightToLeft});">
                  <div class="ms-searchref-morelink">
                    <xsl:value-of select="$MoreLinkText" />
                    <xsl:text disable-output-escaping="yes">&amp;nbsp;</xsl:text>
                    <img src="/_layouts/images/more_arrow.png" class="ms-searchref-moreicon" />
                  </div>
                </a>
                <div style="display:none">
                  <ul class="ms-searchref-filters" id="MoreFilters_{$FilterCategoryId}">
                    <xsl:call-template name="Filter">
                      <xsl:with-param name="Filters" select="MoreFilters/Filter" />
                      <xsl:with-param name="ShowCounts" select="$ShowCounts" />
                    </xsl:call-template>
                  </ul>
                  <div id="TaxonomyMoreControl_{$FilterCategoryId}">
                    <input id="MetadataHiddenInput_{$FilterCategoryId}" type="hidden" />
                    <div id="TaggingControl_{$FilterCategoryId}" class="ms-taxonomy">
                        <img alt="" src="/_layouts/images/blank.gif" height="0" width="0"/>
                    </div>
                    <img style="display:none" src="/_layouts/images/RTE2FIND.gif" class="ms-searchref-taxapply" align="right" alt="{$ApplyButtonText}" onclick="SearchEnsureSOD();var link=GetTaxonomyApplyFilterUrl('{$FilterCategoryId}','{$ColumnId}');if (link!='')window.location=link;" />
                  </div>
                </div>
                <a style="display:none" class="ms-searchref-more" href="javascript:{{}}" onclick="SearchEnsureSOD();ToggleTaxonomyLessFilters(this);">
                  <div class="ms-searchref-morelink">
                    <xsl:value-of select="$LessLinkText" />
                    <xsl:text disable-output-escaping="yes">&amp;nbsp;</xsl:text>
                    <img src="/_layouts/images/less_arrow.png" class="ms-searchref-moreicon" />
                  </div>
                </a>
              </xsl:if>
            </xsl:when>
            <xsl:when test="$FilterCategoryId and ($FilterCategoryId != '') and ($FilterCategoryType = 'Message')">
            </xsl:when>
            <xsl:otherwise>
            </xsl:otherwise>
          </xsl:choose>
        </xsl:if>
      <div class="ms-searchref-catseparator">&#160;</div>
    </xsl:for-each>
  </xsl:template>

  <xsl:template name="Filter">
    <xsl:param name="Filters" />
    <xsl:param name="ShowCounts" />
 <!-- HW: Begin -->
 <xsl:param name="ManagedProperty" />
 <!-- HW: End -->
    <xsl:for-each select="$Filters">
      <xsl:variable name="Selection" select="Selection" />
      <xsl:choose>
        <xsl:when test="($Selection = 'Selected')">
          <xsl:call-template name="FilterLink">
            <xsl:with-param name="Url" select="Url" />
            <xsl:with-param name="UrlTooltip" select="Tooltip" />
            <xsl:with-param name="Value" select="Value" />
            <xsl:with-param name="FilterSelection" select="'ms-searchref-selected ms-searchref-removable'" />
            <xsl:with-param name="ShowCounts" select="$ShowCounts" />
            <xsl:with-param name="Count" select="Count" />
            <xsl:with-param name="Percentage" select="Percentage" />
            <xsl:with-param name="Indentation" select="Indentation" />
   <!-- HW: Begin -->
   <xsl:with-param name="ManagedProperty" select="$ManagedProperty" />
   <!-- HW: End -->
          </xsl:call-template>
        </xsl:when>
        <xsl:when test="($Selection = 'Implied')">
          <xsl:call-template name="FilterLink">
            <xsl:with-param name="Url" select="Url" />
            <xsl:with-param name="UrlTooltip" select="Tooltip" />
            <xsl:with-param name="Value" select="Value" />
            <xsl:with-param name="FilterSelection" select="'ms-searchref-selected'" />
            <xsl:with-param name="ShowCounts" select="$ShowCounts" />
            <xsl:with-param name="Count" select="Count" />
            <xsl:with-param name="Percentage" select="Percentage" />
            <xsl:with-param name="Indentation" select="Indentation" />
   <!-- HW: Begin -->
   <xsl:with-param name="ManagedProperty" select="$ManagedProperty" />
   <!-- HW: End -->
          </xsl:call-template>
        </xsl:when>
        <xsl:otherwise>
          <xsl:call-template name="FilterLink">
            <xsl:with-param name="Url" select="Url" />
            <xsl:with-param name="UrlTooltip" select="Tooltip" />
            <xsl:with-param name="Value" select="Value" />
            <xsl:with-param name="FilterSelection" select="'ms-searchref-unselected'" />
            <xsl:with-param name="ShowCounts" select="$ShowCounts" />
            <xsl:with-param name="Count" select="Count" />
            <xsl:with-param name="Percentage" select="Percentage" />
            <xsl:with-param name="Indentation" select="Indentation" />
   <!-- HW: Begin -->
   <xsl:with-param name="ManagedProperty" select="$ManagedProperty" />
   <!-- HW: End -->
          </xsl:call-template>
        </xsl:otherwise>
      </xsl:choose>
    </xsl:for-each>
  </xsl:template>

  <xsl:template name="FilterLink">
    <xsl:param name="Url"/>
    <xsl:param name="UrlTooltip"/>
    <xsl:param name="Value"/>
    <xsl:param name="FilterSelection"/>
    <xsl:param name="ShowCounts"/>
    <xsl:param name="Count"/>
    <xsl:param name="Percentage"/>
    <xsl:param name="Indentation"/>
 <!-- HW: Begin -->
 <xsl:param name="ManagedProperty" />
 <!-- HW: End -->
    <xsl:variable name="SecureUrl">
      <xsl:call-template name="GetSecureUrl">
        <xsl:with-param name="Url" select="$Url" />
      </xsl:call-template>
    </xsl:variable>
    <li class="ms-searchref-filter {$FilterSelection}">
      <xsl:if test="($Indentation = '1')">
        <span class="ms-searchref-indenticon">&#8627;&#160;</span>
      </xsl:if>
   <!-- HW: Begin -->
      <xsl:choose>
        <xsl:when test="starts-with($Value, 'Any ')">
          <img align="absmiddle" src="/_layouts/images/asterisk.png" border="0" />
        </xsl:when>
        <xsl:when test="$ManagedProperty = 'SiteName'">
          <a href="http://{$Value}" target="_blank" title="Open site in new window"><img align="absmiddle" src="/_layouts/images/SharePointFoundation16.png" border="0" /></a>
        </xsl:when>
        <xsl:when test="ddwrt:MapToIcon('', $Value) != 'icgen.gif'">
          <img align="absmiddle" src="/_layouts/images/{ddwrt:MapToIcon('', $Value)}" border="0" />
        </xsl:when>
        <xsl:when test="$Value = 'Word'">
          <img align="absmiddle" src="/_layouts/images/icdocx.png" border="0" />
        </xsl:when>
        <xsl:when test="$Value = 'Excel'">
          <img align="absmiddle" src="/_layouts/images/icxlsx.png" border="0" />
        </xsl:when>
        <xsl:when test="$Value = 'PowerPoint'">
          <img align="absmiddle" src="/_layouts/images/icpptx.gif" border="0" />
        </xsl:when>
        <xsl:when test="$Value = 'Webpage'">
          <img align="absmiddle" src="/_layouts/images/icaspx.gif" border="0" />
        </xsl:when>
  <xsl:when test="$ManagedProperty = 'Author'">
    <a href="http://sp2010/SearchCenter/Pages/peopleresults.aspx?k={$Value}" target="_blank" title="Search for user profile"><img align="absmiddle" src="/_layouts/images/ACA16.gif" border="0" /></a>
        </xsl:when>
        <xsl:otherwise>
          <img align="absmiddle" src="/_layouts/images/{$Value}.gif" onError="this.src='/_layouts/images/bullet.gif';" border="0" />
        </xsl:otherwise>
      </xsl:choose>
      <xsl:text> </xsl:text>
   <!-- HW: End -->
      <a class="ms-searchref-filterlink" href="{$SecureUrl}" title="{$RefineByHeading}: {$UrlTooltip}">
        <xsl:value-of select="Value"/>
      </a>
      <xsl:choose>
        <xsl:when test="($ShowCounts = 'Count') and ($Count != '')">
          <span class="ms-searchref-count">
            <xsl:if test="$IsRTL = 'True'">&#x200f;</xsl:if> 
            (<xsl:value-of select="Count"/>)
          </span>
        </xsl:when>
        <xsl:when test="($ShowCounts = 'Percentage') and ($Percentage != '')">
          <span class="ms-searchref-count">
            <xsl:if test="$IsRTL = 'True'">&#x200f;</xsl:if> 
            (<xsl:value-of select="format-number($Percentage, '0%')"/>)
          </span>
        </xsl:when>
      </xsl:choose>
    </li>
  </xsl:template>

  <xsl:template name="FilterMessage">
    <xsl:param name="Value"/>
    <xsl:param name="FilterSelection"/>
    <li class="ms-searchref-filtermsg">
      <span class="ms-searchref-filterlink ms-searchref-msg">
        <xsl:value-of select="Value"/>
      </span>
    </li>
  </xsl:template>

  <xsl:template name="GetSecureUrl">
    <xsl:param name="Url"/>
    <xsl:choose>
      <xsl:when test="$IsDesignMode = 'True'">
        <xsl:value-of select="$Url" />
      </xsl:when>
      <xsl:otherwise>
        <xsl:value-of select="ddwrt:EnsureAllowedProtocol($Url)" />
      </xsl:otherwise>
    </xsl:choose>
  </xsl:template>

</xsl:stylesheet>

The result is a Refinement Panel with icons, where a hyperlink is added to the icons of the Filter categories 'Site' and 'Author':
- Site: Open site in new window
- Author: hyperlink to a people search results page with a TOP Federated Results webpart, that includes the local people search and an internet people search via the api of linkedin, pipl, etc.
Replace the url in row 253 with the url of your own search center.

Example of custom refiner with custom icons (with same file name as the value).

Wish list:
- Display avatar of the authors: due to the lack of e-mail address and MD5 encoding this is difficult to achieve;
- Show user profile on hoover with javascript/jQuery: be my guest. => There is a solution for this in SP2013/Online made by Elio Struyf: People refinement made easy by adding profile pictures.

I managed to make it possible to select multiple Refiners via the UI, just by extending the XSL of the Refinement Panel and adding a little javascript.

The poor man's interface (use case 1)

How to connect from SAP to SharePoint to show related documents

Use case:
In SAP we have the registration of objects, and we want to link relevant documents or forms to these objects. Instead of the options SAP DMS, Web Dynpro or Adobe forms, we want to make use of SharePoint for this purpose.
So related documents are stored in SharePoint. But how to get to them, how to upload them and link them to the SAP objects?

Solution:
With some modest customization of SAP it is possible to present an option (under the button) to open a browser with a constructed url based on the metadata from SAP. For example: http://sp2010/objectinfo/default.aspx?ObjectID=obj000333
The first part of the url is static:"http://sp2010/objectinfo/default.aspx?ObjectID=", and the ID of the SAP object is added: "obj000333".
This url will connect to the default page of a Document Center site in SharePoint.

What should the user experience be like?
First of all we want to show a selection of documents and pictures based on the ID of the SAP object. This can be done with the help of a Query String (URL) Filter webpart that gets the value of the Query String Parameter: ObjectID. Then we connect to send the filter values to the Documents and Pictures webpart.

We should also be able to add new documents or pictures to the libraries and have the object ID added to them automatically after upload. With the help of javascript we are able to store the Object ID and current user ID as session variables, so the values can be used after upload to modify the properties of the (new) documents and pictures. This is one of the Off-The-Shelf scripts that I have described in an earlier post.

Finally we want to show an input box with the Object ID as default value, and the manual input can be used to change the filter value on the spot.

When the documents are stored in more than one location it's better to fire a search query from SAP.
Add the ObjectID as managed property to your search administration, so it will be indexed and can be used as keyword in the search query.
The url should be like: http://sp2010/SearchCenter/Pages/results.aspx?k=ObjectID%3A%22obj000333%22

Return to the context of the contextual search

The contextual search is integrated in the standard search center of SharePoint 2010. So we have one search experience, that can be modified.
The scope of the contextual search is added to the search query url by the parameters cs (contextual scope: This Site/This List) and u (url of the site/list).

The masterpage of the search center doesn't provide any navigation. And other portals are not part of the navigation within the Home site. But it would be nice to be able to go back to where we started the search, no matter where we came from. This can be done with some simple Html and javascript.
Add a HTML Form Web Part to the left zone of the search results page and paste the following code into the source editor:

<br/>&#160;&#160;&#160;<a href="/"><img class="ms-rtePosition-4" alt="Go Home" src="/_layouts/images/hhome.png" border="0"/></a>&#160;<font color="#0072bc"><a href="/">Go Home</a>&#160; </font><a href="#" onClick="javascript:window.location.replace(GetUrlKeyValue('u'));"><img class="ms-rtePosition-4" alt="Go Back" src="/_layouts/images/back.gif" border="0"/></a>&#160;<a href="#" onClick="javascript:window.location.replace(GetUrlKeyValue('u'));">Go Back</a><br/><br/>

This results in two options: go home, or go back to the context.
When there is no context, you will return to the default page of the search center.

The Ugly, the Bad and the Good (Part 3)

Part 3. The Good

Different ways to get the right icon for every filter value in the Refinement panel.

After exploring the possibilities in XSL I came up with this hybrid approach:
- Look for Result Type icons in the docicon.xml file on the server;
- Look for icons with the same name as the filter value in the images folder;
- Several when-statements for specific matches;
- Default icon if there's no match.

Add via the XSL Editor the following rows to the <xsl:template name="FilterLink">:

<xsl:if test="($Indentation = '1')">
  <span class="ms-searchref-indenticon">&#8627;&#160;</span>
</xsl:if>
<!-- Begin -->
  <xsl:choose>
 <!-- for the Any of every category -->
 <xsl:when test="starts-with($Value, 'Any ')">
   <img align="absmiddle" src="/_layouts/images/asterisk.png" border="0" />
 </xsl:when>
 <!-- for Site -->
 <xsl:when test="starts-with($UrlTooltip, 'http://')">
   <img align="absmiddle" src="/_layouts/images/SharePointFoundation16.png" border="0" />
 </xsl:when>
 <!-- for Result Type - will only work for original values, like Pdf, Zip -->
 <xsl:when test="ddwrt:MapToIcon('', $Value) != 'icgen.gif'">
   <img align="absmiddle" src="/_layouts/images/{ddwrt:MapToIcon('', $Value)}" border="0" />
 </xsl:when>
 <!-- for Result Type with custom value -->
 <xsl:when test="$Value = 'Word'">
   <img align="absmiddle" src="/_layouts/images/icdocx.png" border="0" />
 </xsl:when>
 <xsl:when test="$Value = 'Excel'">
   <img align="absmiddle" src="/_layouts/images/icxlsx.png" border="0" />
 </xsl:when>
 <xsl:when test="$Value = 'PowerPoint'">
   <img align="absmiddle" src="/_layouts/images/icpptx.gif" border="0" />
 </xsl:when>
 <xsl:when test="$Value = 'Webpage'">
   <img align="absmiddle" src="/_layouts/images/icaspx.gif" border="0" />
 </xsl:when>
 <!-- find your own added icons with same name as the filter value, or else default icon  -->
 <xsl:otherwise>
   <img align="absmiddle" src="/_layouts/images/{$Value}.gif" onError="this.src='/_layouts/images/bullet.gif';" border="0" />
 </xsl:otherwise>
  </xsl:choose>
  <!-- space -->
  <xsl:text> </xsl:text>
<!-- End -->
<a class="ms-searchref-filterlink" href="{$SecureUrl}" title="{$RefineByHeading}: {$UrlTooltip}">
  <xsl:value-of select="Value"/>
</a>

The result is this pimped up Refinement Panel:

Try it yourself.

Of course it's possible to add separate templates for every category, but that is too much work for now. Maybe later... See Part 4.

The Ugly, the Bad and the Good (Part 2)

Part 2. The Bad

Add your own icons with the same name as the refiner value to the images folder.

Only one extra row of XSL is needed to do the trick: find and show the icon with the filter value in the Refinement panel.

Add via the XSL Editor the following rows to the <xsl:template name="FilterLink">:

<xsl:if test="($Indentation = '1')">
  <span class="ms-searchref-indenticon">&#8627;&#160;</span>
</xsl:if>
<!-- Begin -->
  <!-- find your own added icons with same name as the filter value, or else default icon  -->
  <img align="absmiddle" src="/_layouts/images/{$Value}.gif" onError="this.src='/_layouts/images/bullet.gif';" border="0" />
  <!-- space -->
  <xsl:text> </xsl:text>
<!-- End -->
<a class="ms-searchref-filterlink" href="{$SecureUrl}" title="{$RefineByHeading}: {$UrlTooltip}">
  <xsl:value-of select="Value"/>
</a>

But there must be a smarter way to get the standard icons that are already available. The sequel continues with Part 3.

The Ugly, the Bad and the Good (Part 1)

Part 1. The Ugly

Let's bring back the icons in the Refinement Panel of the Search results, as with the Faceted Search in MOSS 2007.
Within the Refinement Panel we have the value of the filters available. By extending the XSLT with a lot of when-statements we are able to select the belonging icon from the images folder at the file system of the server.

Add via the XSL Editor the following rows to the <xsl:template name="FilterLink"> between Begin and End comment:

<xsl:if test="($Indentation = '1')">
  <span class="ms-searchref-indenticon">&#8627;&#160;</span>
</xsl:if>
<!-- Begin -->
<xsl:choose>
  <xsl:when test="contains($Value, 'Any')">
    <img align="absmiddle" src="/_layouts/images/asterisk.png" border="0" />
  </xsl:when>
  <xsl:when test="$Value = 'Word'">
    <img align="absmiddle" src="/_layouts/images/icdocx.png" border="0" />
  </xsl:when>
  <xsl:when test="$Value = 'Excel'">
    <img align="absmiddle" src="/_layouts/images/icxlsx.png" border="0" />
  </xsl:when>
  <xsl:when test="$Value = 'Webpage'">
    <img align="absmiddle" src="/_layouts/images/icaspx.gif" border="0" />
  </xsl:when>
  <xsl:when test="$Value = 'Adobe PDF'">
    <img align="absmiddle" src="/_layouts/images/icpdf.gif" border="0" />
  </xsl:when>
  <xsl:otherwise>
    <img align="absmiddle" src="/_layouts/images/bullet.gif" border="0" />
  </xsl:otherwise>
</xsl:choose>
<xsl:text> </xsl:text>
<!-- End -->
<a class="ms-searchref-filterlink" href="{$SecureUrl}" title="{$RefineByHeading}: {$UrlTooltip}">
  <xsl:value-of select="Value"/>
</a>

Of course this is quite an ugly solution due to the fact that you need to add rows for 'every' result type that you might expect.
But it's a quick win and looks very nice. And because of the otherwise-statement, every filter gets at least an icon and no red cross or so.

Here is an example of the result:

In Part 2. we will look at the possibility to use the value of the filter to compose the filename of the icon. In this way we don't need all the when-statements. As you might think, this is the Bad one.

Get back to where you once belonged

My first post will be about getting back the icons where they once belonged:

Next to the Search Refiners in SharePoint 2010,
as with the Faceted Search in MOSS 2007.

Search Refiners (SharePoint 2010)

Faceted Search (MOSS 2007)

At Poleposition

Ready, steady, GO!

At last my contribution to a better SharePoint for the world.

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