I hate digging through XLS stuff and customizing the search looked like a pain to me. But thanks to this guy's post I can customize fast and with a high quality. A bloody shame that the penny didn't drop before to use SP Designer for this. His presentation started me thinking and I just did some customizations, see below screenshot. This is all done by just replacing the XLS stylesheet.
Read his presentation but make sure you do this first:
- create two Enterprise Search Centers (tabbed).
Use one Search Center to get the raw code and use the other Search center to test your XLS.
Some ideas I have are:
- linking a profile Longitude and Latitude field to a Google Static map;
- Skype call and chat button;
- Conditional formatting;
- Add a Youtube profile video.
This is great stuff!