I am migrating a site from SP2010 to SP2013. One of page contain a search result webpart. By define the querystring like this:

SearchResult.aspx?k=Scope:Hotnews

It will return only the defined scope results.

However, SP2013 no longer provide Scope. Can I perform similiar trick with querystring? I have setup a Result Source "Hotnews" on my SP2013 farm. But I don't know the syntax in querystring or is it even supported. Could you please guide me? Thanks.

Hi  Mark,

According to your description, my understanding is that you want to set the result source of your search result web part to a custom result source "Hotnews" in SharePoint Server 2013.

For achieving  your demand, you can limit search results of your search result web part as below shows:

Reference: http://techmikael.blogspot.com/2013/04/limiting-search-results-in-sharepoint.html

Also you can have a look at these blogs:

http://www.eliostruyf.com/dynamically-changing-result-source-sharepoint-2013-search-center/

http://blog.mastykarz.nl/programmatically-working-keyword-search-queries-sharepoint-2013/

http://technologybooth.blogspot.com/2013/08/keyword-query-in-sharepoint-2013.html

Thanks,

Eric

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I have no problem to setup Result source. I need a way to let user dynamic query the result source by several managed properties.

For example, we have two managed property "FoodCategory" and "CookCategory". There is a page with two dropdown menu. Users can pick a value on these two dropdownmenu and click search. It will redirect user to a URL like:

http://sp/results.aspx?FoodCategory=C01&CookCategory=C02

It is fair easy to achieve in SP2010 but I don't know how to make it in SP2013.

When I click on the refinement panel, the URL will reflect the selection like:
{"k":"1","r":[{"n":"FoodCategory","t":["\"4c303130e9b699e7b8af\""],"o":"and","m":null,"k":false}]}

It seems my solution but there is a unique ID in the string. It makes the future maintenance and deployment very difficult.

Is SP2013 have OOB method for me search with querystring?

Hi,

Did you ever find a solution?  If so, please pass it along.  Thanks.