Sharepoint refine results control only uses the current pages values

Question

I have a SharePoint refine search results control on my people search results page. Paging is on for the search results. The control only refines the current pages results.

How do I change this behaviour so that despite the core results being paged, the refine results works on all results?

Answer 1

Unfortunately it can't be done. Sorting and refining only work on the results returned for the page, as defined in the Search Core Results Web Part XSLT. It's a real shame, too. But if you never get back more than 50 hits and you have max items set to 50, you'll get what you want. :-)