Mix two Result Sources in Search Results Web Part

Question

This is my following scenario:

• MySite Host Site Collection with a custom page called peoplesearch.aspx
• peoplesearch.aspx has Refinement Panel, and Search Results Web Part (Search Box webpart is in the master page)
• I have a Custom List with information about people outside the company (First Name, Last Name and Phone fields)

I need to retrieve Local People Results + Results from my custom List in the same page.

I have tried many things but it seems that only it is possible to get Local People Results or SharePoint Results but not a mix of both.

I would like to avoid developing a web part that inherits Search Result WebParts and launching the 2 queries via Code and mixing them in a DataTable or something like that.

Answer 1

The real answer here is to create a result source where you for "Type" choose "People Search Results". You don't need to add

ContentClass=urn:content-class:SPSPeople

For example:

{?({searchTerms})} {?OR (({searchTerms}) spcontenttype:contact)}

will give people + results of contenttype=Contact

When testing this in the query wizard it will append contentclass for people and not show the list results, but it will work on the result page or via the query API.

For some reason this works in SharePoint Online but not on premises with SP1.

Answer 2

Check the result sources:

People:

{?{searchTerms} ContentClass=urn:content-class:SPSPeople}

Local Content:

{?{searchTerms} -ContentClass=urn:content-class:SPSPeople}

For local the minus in front of the content class excludes the people results. For people the contentclass excludes your list.

Create a copy of the people result, add your custom list with a OR to the result source and both should be visible.

Answer 3

My requirement was to mix three types of content types. I created new result source with below query.

{?{searchTerms} ContentClass=urn:content-class:SPSPeople} {?OR (({searchTerms}) ContentSource:WCFContacts)} {?OR (({searchTerms}) ContentSource:WCFAccounts)}