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michael meza
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Apr 25, 2018
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Results Display to show Checked out user

Hello again everyone! I am now 4 weeks into learning how to do SharePoint dev and moving along well. Thanks to all the questions that have already been answered here.   Here is one i have not seen....
  • paulpascha's avatar
    paulpascha
    Apr 26, 2018

    It is possible to see checked out documents with Search. A Crawled Property ows_CheckoutUser exists which you can use in your query and Display Template to achieve your results.

     

    The blog below describes part of the approach. 

    https://www.c-sharpcorner.com/UploadFile/396c42/retrieve-checked-out-documents-from-the-whole-site-collectio/

     

    After the steps described in the blog you should take additional steps to modify the Display Template for the search results in order to display the name of the user in your search result...

     

    Hope this helps!

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Anonymous
Apr 26, 2018

As far as I know it is not possible to see checked out documents with Search. 

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    paulpascha
    Bronze Contributor
    Apr 26, 2018

    It is possible to see checked out documents with Search. A Crawled Property ows_CheckoutUser exists which you can use in your query and Display Template to achieve your results.

     

    The blog below describes part of the approach. 

    https://www.c-sharpcorner.com/UploadFile/396c42/retrieve-checked-out-documents-from-the-whole-site-collectio/

     

    After the steps described in the blog you should take additional steps to modify the Display Template for the search results in order to display the name of the user in your search result...

     

    Hope this helps!

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