Create a Search Scope for a Sharepoint 2010 List or Library
Update: I’ve just recorded a screencast tutorial on creating a search scope: click here Go to Site Actions > Site Settings (make sure you’re in the root site), and click “Search scopes”. Click “New Scope” to create a new scope to load in a sub-page of the site. Nothing really needs to be set on this screen except the title. If you want this to be a default scope that shows in the normal scope dropdown, make sure and select the “Search Dropdown” box. Otherwise, everything can be set in your custom page. In the next screen you’ll see your newly created scope under “Unused Scopes”. There are no rules attached to this scope yet, so let’s go create some. Click “Add rules”. If you want this search scope to query a specific list (for instance, I wanted it to troll through the “newlist” list), enter the address of the list in the “folder” textbox. Also, if you check “require” it will designate that only this list will be searched. I’m not exactly sure how often the scopes update, but it s...