Programmatically create, modify and delete search scope display group in SharePoint 2010

In this article we will be seeing how to create, modify and delete scope display group using c# in SharePoint 2010.

Create scope display group:

In the SharePoint site you can create a new display group for the scope and associate the scope with the group.

Through UI you can go to Site Actions => Site Settings =>Site Administration => Search Scopes => Display group => Create a new display group.

The same thing can be achieved using c# code.

using System; using System.Collections.Generic; using System.Linq; using System.Text; using Microsoft.SharePoint; using Microsoft.Office.Server; using Microsoft.Office.Server.Search.Administration;

namespace SearchScopeDisplayGroup {

class Program  

{

static void Main(string[] args)       

{           using (SPSite site = new SPSite("http://servername:1111/"))           

{

using (SPWeb web = site.RootWeb)               

{

SearchContext searchContext = SearchContext.GetContext(site); Scopes scopes = new Scopes(searchContext); ScopeDisplayGroupCollection displayGroupColl = scopes.AllDisplayGroups; ScopeDisplayGroup displayGroup = displayGroupColl.Create("CustomDisplayGroup","Custom Display Group", new Uri(site.Url), true); displayGroup.Add(scopes.GetSharedScope("CustomSiteScope"));                   

displayGroup.Add(scopes.GetSharedScope("CustomScope"));                                       

displayGroup.Default = scopes.GetSharedScope("CustomScope");                  

displayGroup.Update();                   

}          

}       

}

} }

Modify scope display group:

Here we will be modifying the existing display group using C#.

using System; using System.Collections.Generic; using System.Linq; using System.Text; using Microsoft.SharePoint; using Microsoft.Office.Server; using Microsoft.Office.Server.Search.Administration;

namespace SearchScopeDisplayGroup {

class Program { static void Main(string[] args)

{           using (SPSite site = new SPSite("http://servername:1111/")) { using (SPWeb web = site.RootWeb) { SearchContext searchContext = SearchContext.GetContext(site); Scopes scopes = new Scopes(searchContext);                   ScopeDisplayGroup displayGroup = scopes.GetDisplayGroup(new Uri(site.Url),"CustomDisplayGroup");                  

displayGroup.Name = "CustomDisplayGroupNew";                  

displayGroup.Description = "Custom Display Group New";                   

displayGroup.Remove(scopes.GetSharedScope("CustomScope"));                  

displayGroup.Add(scopes.GetSharedScope("BNew"));                    

displayGroup.Update();             

}           

}       

}  

} }

Delete scope display group:

using System; using System.Collections.Generic; using System.Linq; using System.Text; using Microsoft.SharePoint; using Microsoft.Office.Server; using Microsoft.Office.Server.Search.Administration;

namespace SearchScopeDisplayGroup

class Program  

{

static void Main(string[] args)      

{          

using (SPSite site = new SPSite("http://servername:1111/"))         

{

using (SPWeb web = site.RootWeb)              

{

SearchContext searchContext = SearchContext.GetContext(site);

Scopes scopes = new Scopes(searchContext);

ScopeDisplayGroup displayGroup = scopes.GetDisplayGroup(new Uri(site.Url),"CustomDisplayGroup"); displayGroup.Delete();                                

}           

}     

}   

} }