Creating an advanced search on a list

If you ever wanted to have an advanced property search on a SharePoint list – your worries are now over.

Almost all SharePoint lists views supports having a filter-combo box above them. Only you have to show the toolbarin order to use it and it hides the filter boxes by default.

here is a little javascript code snippet that will force the list web part always show the filter combo boxes and thus providing property-based search on your list.

All you have to do is add a content editor web part to your page and add this javascript to its source editor:

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<script>
function NewSubmitFormPost(url)
{
if( url.indexOf("?") > 0 )
url += "&";
else
url += "?";
url += "Filter=1";
OrgSubmitFormPost(url);
}

var OrgSubmitFormPost = SubmitFormPost;
SubmitFormPost = NewSubmitFormPost;

if( window.location.href.indexOf("Filter=1") < 1 )
window.location.href = window.location.href + "?Filter=1";

</script>

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This little code bit sure saved me some long development hours...
:)