I've gone through quite a few steps to extend my Enterprise Search center (based on template of same name) beyond All sites and People. I got a file share on a disk of my Sharepoint server machine that I've configured for crawl and I've configured a scope called "FileSystem". I'm now able to get results limited to files on this subset of my server.
I'm not sure what step(s) I would need to enable the OPENing of any selected file in the search results. Clicking on an entry just does nothing.
The client machine I am running on has all Office 2010 applications installed so if pointing to a Word .docx file, why won't the selected file open.
Similarly, if selecting a .txt file, why doesn't it open in either IE9 or in Notepad? If the file cannot be opened, how can the "search results" from a file system be useful to an end-user? Example follows:
I feel I am missing something quite basic to make this happen but I cannot think of what I have overlooked. Thanks in advance for reading this far.
John