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Enable scope picker for Search Input Box in SharePoint 2010

To enable the scope picker next to search input box I started off with the 2007 approach of writing a custom feature and giving it higher priority as mentioned in this MSDN article. Even after setting the search control’s DropDownModeEx property to “ShowDD” it wasn’t displaying the dropdown. After some struggle I stumbled up on the search settings option under site collection settings. As shown in the screenshot below, it gives us an option to show or hide the scope picker next to the search input box.
SP2010_ScopePicker
Hope this helps.

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Raja Ayyapusetty

Raja is a software consultant with over 9 years of experience in designing, developing and testing complex solutions using Microsoft technologies. Throughout his career he has worked primarily on SharePoint and .NET technologies. Raja has worked with SharePoint since the 2003 version and has deep understanding of its features and capabilities. Raja is also a certified Sitecore developer.

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