Customize SharePoint Services 3.0 search results

· sharepoint services 3

This post is from 2008 and kept as an archive. What it describes may have changed since.

To customize the layout of your WSS search results page you just need to edit the file searchresults.aspx located in
C:\Programme\Gemeinsame Dateien\Microsoft Shared\web server extensions\12\TEMPLATE\LAYOUTS
or
C:\Program Files\Common Files\Microsoft Shared\web server extensions\12\TEMPLATE\LAYOUTS

Look for the SearchWC:CoreResultsWebPart tag and add the attribute OnPreRender="PreRender_Handler"
On the top of the page add the following code-snipped:
<script type="text/javascript">mce:0</script>

I used this to add a link to the results parent folder. Unfortunately you have to handle this with regular expressions.
Perhaps there is a better way, but I did not find any.

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