SharePoint language problem with search scopes groups
Thursday, October 30th, 2008When you have an english installation of SharePoint and you install the language packs (wss en sharepoint) for example the dutch language. You get the possibility to create dutch site collections. Sometimes when you create a dutch site collection you get errors with search. I didn’t see the searchscope dropdown but only the words ‘All sites’. When I searched for something I got the following javascript error:
‘options is leeg of geen object’.
The reason for this is that I couldn’t select a searchscope because they were not available. So I visited the Scopes at the site collection level here:
http://SITE_COLLECTION/_layouts/viewscopes.aspx?mode=site
There I saw that the scope display groups has an english title. English titles in a dutch site collection? That is strange so I googled and found the following:
http://patrikluca.blogspot.com/2008/02/all-sites-search-scopes-missing-in.html
After reading this I renamed the scope display groups into:
Vervolgkeuzelijst voor zoeken
and
Geavanceerd zoeken
After this change the scopes dropdown is shown and search will work!