Hi there everyone.
We're working on a page in our SharePoint site that will allow people to easily find and sign up for the e-Learning courses we create. Ideally we'd like users to be able to not only search by the name of the course, but also search by their job role and filter a list of courses that role will need.
I've got the course search working beautifully, but I keep running into roadblocks. First of all, a form web part can only connect to a single column, so I can't have the same search box for courses and roles. Secondly, I can't have multiple web parts connected to the same list. I tried having two lists and a form web part for each, but because it's the same list both are being filtered at once. I considered showing/hiding the appropriate list with jQuery (since I have a "reset" button that more or less just reloads the page) but the problem there is that because I can't retain the search option that was chosen when the page reloads the code has no way of knowing which list needs to be shown/hidden at any given time.
It's starting to look like the only way we can actually achieve this without SharePoint Designer is to have each search on a separate page, but if there's a way to have both in one page it would be a lot more convenient for our users.
Anyone have any ideas that we might not have considered yet?
