Making the Mobile Phone Number visible in Search

The below steps can be used for any of the information synchronized from Active Directory but I found the Mobile Phone field to be the most common one.

With the mobile phone populated in Active Directory we want to make it visible from the users profile page and from the people results page.

To make it automatically visible from the users public profile then you will need to edit the ‘Person.aspx’ page on the SharePoint Servers file system.  This is not a recommended practise but if you have a limited number of SharePoint Web facing Servers and the process of the change is fully documented then in a controlled environment this works fine.

The file is located normally in: C:\Program Files\Common Files\Microsoft Shared\Web Server Extensions\14\TEMPLATE\SiteTemplates\SPSMSITEHOST

Modifying the Person.aspx page which can be completed in notepad if no other development tool is available simply requires the following line in red added:

<div style="padding-left: 20px;" class="ms-contactcardtext3" id="ProfileViewer_ValueWorkPhone">

                <SPSWC:ProfilePropertyValue PropertyName="WorkPhone" dir="ltr" runat="server"/>

 </div>

<div style="padding-left: 20px;" class="ms-contactcardtext3" id="ProfileViewer_ValueCellPhone">

                <SPSWC:ProfilePropertyValue PropertyName="CellPhone" dir="ltr" runat="server"/>

 </div>

<div style="padding-left: 20px;" class="ms-contactcardtext3" id="ProfileViewer_ValueOfficeLocation">

Once the file is saved then ensure a copy is updated on each Web facing SharePoint Server.

Modifying people search to include the mobile phone number is through a more recognized way of editing the web part.  This is carried out following the below guidelines and as it is stored in the Database becomes available all over the farm.

Find the PeopleResults.aspx in the Search Center

Edit the page,

Edit the People Search Core Results webpart,

Expand Display Properties,

If enabled then uncheck ‘Use Location Visualisation’

Edit the Fetched Properties XML (SharePoint bug in that can’t expand to see all XML)

Add:      <Column Name="MobilePhone" HitHighLight="true"/>

Then in ‘XSL  Editor’ add the following lines in red around the existing lines in blue:

<xsl:variable name="haswph"       select="string-length(workphone) &gt; 0"/>

<xsl:variable name="hasmph"       select="string-length(mobilephone) &gt; 0"/>

 <xsl:variable name="hasonum"      select="string-length(officenumber) &gt; 0"/>

Plus:

      <xsl:if test="$haswph">

        <li id="PhoneField">

          <xsl:apply-templates select="hithighlightedproperties/workphone" />

        </li>

      </xsl:if>

      <xsl:if test="$hasmph">

        <li id="PhoneField">

          <xsl:apply-templates select="hithighlightedproperties/mobilephone" />

        </li>

      </xsl:if>

      <xsl:if test="$hasonum">

        <li id="OfficeField">

          <xsl:apply-templates select="hithighlightedproperties/officenumber" />

        </li>

      </xsl:if>

The results are we now see the mobile phone number displayed in search results.