Select a default Search Center tab for people search (Office SharePoint Server 2007)

Applies To: Office SharePoint Server 2007

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Topic Last Modified: 2016-11-14

If you use Search Center with Tabs to display search results to users, you can customize which Search Center tab is selected and displayed by default when the Search Center opens.

Before you perform this procedure, confirm that:

Important

You must be an administrator on the Search Center site to complete this procedure.

To select a default Search Center tab

Use this procedure to select a default Search Center tab to be displayed when the Search Center with Tabs opens.

Select a default Search Center tab

  1. Open the Search Center with Tabs in the site collection where you want to select the default Search Center to appear when users open the Search Center with Tabs.

  2. Click Site Actions, and then click Edit Page.

  3. On the Search Center with Tabs, click Edit Tabs. The Tabs in Search Pages page opens.

  4. Click Actions, and then click Change Order.

  5. On the Tabs in Search Pages: Change Item Order page, in the Item Order section, renumber the Search Center tabs in the Position from Top column to the order in which they are to be displayed to users. The Search Center tab numbered 1 will be the default Search Center displayed to users when they first open the Search Center with Tabs.

  6. Click OK when it is finished.

  7. The Search Center with Tabs opens in Edit mode.

  8. Click the Search tab. Click either Publish or Check In to Share Draft, depending on the site permissions and workflow. The Search Center with Tabs opens.