SharePoint 2013: Search- Displaying results from “Local SharePoint Results” and from “local People Results”

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Scenario

If a user makes a generic search for (eg:-India) then search results should display results from “SharePoint Results” as well as displays all the users who have the userprofile location field set to “India”

 

Prerequisite

 

A custom field “LocationUser” needs to be created as part of userprofile accustom property attribute.  And update few of the user profiles with data for column “LocationUser”  and do a full crawl..

Required Configuration

Create a Query rule to pull results from “People Results” and promote the same. As shown in the below diagram in the Query rule set the query test as {?owstaxIdLocationUser:{SearchBoxQuery}}

Where owstaxIdLocationUser is the user profile ‘custom property” which we added via central admin