Modify core search results to display custom property

Question

I am trying to modify the core search results webpart in SP2010. Ive created a managed property named: ExternalContactsCompany

I then added a <Column name="ExternalContactsCompany"/> section to the fetched properties inside the webpart properties.

Next i added the following XSL:

TEST <xsl:value-of select="externalcontactscompany"/>

All i can see is "TEST". The last part is not showing anything.

And yes, the column is filled !

Answer 1

Replace your XSLT with the following piece of code (don't forget to backup ;))

<xsl:stylesheet version="1.0" 
   xmlns:xsl="http://www.w3.org/1999/XSL/Transform"> 
<xsl:output method="xml" version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8" indent="yes"/> 
<xsl:template match="/"> 
  <xmp><xsl:copy-of select="*"/></xmp> 
</xsl:template> 
</xsl:stylesheet>

Publish the page and verify which XML is available from the search engine. If the column "ExternalContactsCompany" is not available - you do something wrong.

Answer 2

I wrote in my blog a guide to create a new crawlable property and a guide to modify the xsl that display the results list: http://salvatoredifaziosharepoint.blogspot.it/2012/04/how-to-modify-sharepoints-result-page.html