I added an ifilter to Sharepoint 2013 so that Sharepoint can parse Wordperfect documents. When the WordPerfect documents are returned in the Search Center, they do not have any icons associated with them. I verified that the icons are in the “C:\Program Files\Common Files\Microsoft Shared\Web Server Extensions\15\TEMPLATE\IMAGES” folder on the server.
The correct icons show when I add a WordPrefect document to a document library in Sharepoint. Why don’t the icons show up in the search center results? Do I have to add an item template to the search center?
My crawler does successfully parse the text of WordPerfect files, which makes me think that the iFilter is installed correctly. I have entered the icons into the docicon.xml file as well as adding the file type to the search.
I know that there are result types that you can set on a per site collection basis. I also know that you can use the Design Manager to edit/create display templates. I believe that the “Default Item” display template might be being used for the new ifilter I just added. That display template doesn’t show an icon (I think), because it doesn’t know anything about the file type, which makes sense. If that is the case I would have to create my own “WordPerfect” display template, which I do not know how to do. Do you think my above hypothesis could be right? Do you know how to create a Display template? I know you can just copy one and edit it, but I am unfamiliar with the syntax.
-SuperDale
