Changing search bar on Comm site to search entire Tenant?

Can you somehow make the search bar search the entire tenant similar to the SharePoint Portal page search? I want to have my "Intranet" landing page search bar search the same across everything witho...

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Clifford Kennedy
Feb 03, 2018
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.

Anonymous

Feb 03, 2018

Thanks, this should at least give me an option if it ends up being a requirement. Thanks!

Geir-Magnus Pettersen

Microsoft

Jun 29, 2018

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.

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