Add numbering to the search core results web part in MOSS 2007

Question

I am using MOSS 2007 to provide a custom search results page.

I need to display a number as part of search results which indicates the number that result appears in the whole result set.

The problem is that the XML returned by search does not contain data pertaining to the page (of results) that you are on.

I can use the value of 'id' but this only works if I do not use paged results (not ideal) because the id of the first result on the next page will revert to 1 again.

Has anyone had to address this before? Any XSLT magic I can use? Is there an additional field I can add into the search results to enable this?

Answer 1

Its been a while since i looked at this, but isnt that what the ID element in the returned XML is there for?

<All_Results>
  <Result>
    <id>1</id> 
    <rank>713</rank> 
    <title>Microsoft.SharePoint Namespace</title> 
    <author /> 
    <size>39058</size> 
    ...

Check the reference here:

http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/ms584121(office.12).aspx