Get all seach scopes for current site collection

In this article we will be seeing about search scopes in SharePoint 2010.|

In this article:

• Add namespaces
• Get search context
• Get all scopes
• Skip default scopes
• Add scopes in dropdown

Get all the search scopes:

Add following namespaces.

using Microsoft.Office.Server;
using  Microsoft.Office.Server.Search.Administration;

Use following method to populate all scopes of current site collection in dropdown.

private void GetScopes()
{
SPSecurity.RunWithElevatedPrivileges(delegate()
{
using (SPSite site = new SPSite(SPContext.Current.Site.ID))
{
// Get the search context object.
SearchContext context = SearchContext.GetContext(site);
Scopes scopes = new scopes(context);
foreach(Scope scope in scopes.GetSharedScopes())
{
// Skip following default scopes
// Global Query Exclusion - Everything that should be omitted from all search by default
// Rank Demoted Sites - Sites whose rank will be demoted in click - distance calculation.

if(scope.Name != "Global Query Exclusion" && scope.Name !="Rank demoted Sites")
// Show scopes in dropdown
ddlscopes.Items.Add(scope.Name);
}
}
});
}

Lookup field dropdown position issue

I was trying to create a custom webpart that will display a form to submit data in a list. The list had few lookup fields.

Whenever, I click on that image it displays us with a drop-down containing all the values, but the funniest part is you can select a particular item either by double click or by selecting it once and clicking it else where on the page or by tabbing system of the keyboard. But I want it work like a normal drop-down selection in other words just with a single click and also the control should be closer to other controls from usability perspective.

To fix this issue. you need to set InDesign ="true";

 Ex.BaseFieldControl webControl = field.FieldRenderingControl;

webControl.ID = string.Format("ctrl_{0}_{1}", field.InternalName, pplCount);


webControl.FieldName = field.Title;

webControl.ItemContext = SPContext.GetContext(HttpContext.Current, lstReqData.DefaultView.ID, lstReqData.ID, lstReqData.ParentWeb);

webControl.RenderContext = SPContext.GetContext(HttpContext.Current, lstReqData.DefaultView.ID, lstReqData.ID, lstReqData.ParentWeb);

webControl.ControlMode = SPControlMode.New;

webControl.ListId = lstReqData.ID;

webControl.InDesign = true;

 If you are using form field you can set it by following changes in aspx page

<SharePoint:FormField runat="server" InDesign="true" ID="myFieldId" ControlMode="New" FieldName="myFieldName" />