SharePoint 2013 Enterprise Search and Document ID service

Question

Hello,
as I understand search scopes are now deprected in SharePoint 2013 and I cannot add any new custom search scopes.
My problem is that on the document ID settings page, where I can choose the search scope, I can only see the deafult "All Sites" search scope.
Is there any way to add custom search scopes in SharePoint 2013, or make my default document ID provider use result sources insted of search scopes?
Any suggestions would be greatly appreciated!
Thank you.
Dimitar

Answer 1

Hi Dimitar,
Document IDs help you manage your documents by providing an easy way to track items regardless of their location. Even if a document is moved to another site, renamed or copied, it retains its Document ID. You can use the Document ID to easily locate it.
Document ID’s are automatically assigned to uploaded documents and this ID will follow the item throughout its whole life cycle. Consequently, Document ID should be unique among all sites, so that it won’t duplicated when documents moved among sites.
Document ID Lookup Search Scope allows a specific search scope to be used to look up documents using their IDs. The default search scope is “All sites” as you see, it means if you search certain document id, you are searching it among all
sites. If you would like to custom search scope for it, I’d recommend you create custom result source for it in Search Service Application. Although it is workaround, it might be more flexible and easier to achieve.
Here are some good articles for build search result sources in SharePoint 2013 for your convenience:
http://blogs.technet.com/b/tothesharepoint/archive/2012/10/09/build-a-specialized-search-experience-in-minutes-with-sharepoint-2013.aspx
http://techmikael.blogspot.com/2013/04/limiting-search-results-in-sharepoint.html
Regards,
Rebecca Tu
TechNet Community Support