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Changing search bar on Comm site to search entire Tenant?
Hi Deleted - unfortunately today you cannot change the search scope natively within the site setup. However, I saw some time back a similar question was posed and the workaround suggested was to create a SPFx search box client side web part to redirect from modern Site Page to classic search results page. Here is the article explaining how it's done: https://blog.velingeorgiev.com/sharepoint-framework-react-search-box-client-side-web-part
By no means is it the clean modern look and feel, but it may unblock you until the modern experience ships.
Hi Deleted - unfortunately today you cannot change the search scope natively within the site setup. However, I saw some time back a similar question was posed and the workaround suggested was to create a SPFx search box client side web part to redirect from modern Site Page to classic search results page. Here is the article explaining how it's done: https://blog.velingeorgiev.com/sharepoint-framework-react-search-box-client-side-web-part
By no means is it the clean modern look and feel, but it may unblock you until the modern experience ships.
- Thanks, this should at least give me an option if it ends up being a requirement. Thanks!
Geir-Magnus PettersenMicrosoft
Its correct that you can not set the default scope to global for a teamsite/commsite currently. Please also see this thread that is discussing around the same issue: https://techcommunity.microsoft.com/t5/SharePoint/Scoping-of-search-in-team-site-communication-sites/m-p/210905#M19278
As a possible mitigation, instead of redirecting to the classic search you could redirect this url:<YOURTEAMSITE>/_layouts/15/search.aspx?q=<startquery>
This should take you to your upscoped search results page.