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Christian Pieper
Copper Contributor
Jan 31, 2018

display specific data from contact list depending on user search input

Hello everybody,

i'm quite new to SharePoint and looking for a way to solve my Problem:

 

We have a Contact List for different applications. Each of the applications has several components (each component has a separate contact Person). Some applications have some of the same components.

 

Now i want a search box where the users can search for an application name and get .all of the application belonging components and their corresponding contacts as result. I don't want to Show the filtered entries in the contact list itself, i'd like to Show the results in a separate Webpart.

 

My first Problem here is that some applications share the same components, so i guess i have to create 2 lists in the beginning (one for the applications and one for the components) to link the components to multiple applications?

 

Second Thing is to Show the results in a separate Webpart. There are several search Webparts, which one fits the most here?

 

I would really appreciate any Kind of help!

 

Thanks in advance

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  • SharePoint onprem I'm assuming based on 2013 label?
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        This is a pretty good article that talks about web part connections which is what you can use to connect a search / selection webpart to pass data to your data to do the filtering.

        https://support.office.com/en-us/article/Connect-data-in-Web-Parts-54A36FDA-019C-49B3-AD33-0CD94BF70C1E