Communication sites - no search results on titles of Hero webpart

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Hi all,When I search for&nbsp;a title set/saved in the Hero/Quick Link webpart, I get no results in de search center. Is this normal SP behaviour?&nbsp;

chriswebbtech · Answer

Can you elaborate please. Not quiet sure what you mean :). Screenshot helpful. thanks!

rob oudejans · Answer

You're right. Here some screenshots.&nbsp;1. The title of this tile in the Hero webpart is "issue".2. When I search this word, SP doesn't find the title and give it as a result.

chriswebbtech · Answer

Web parts are not data and therefore not indexed, you won't get results from that. You need to link to a page called issue or something similar then you would get a result for that destination.

rob oudejans · Answer

Thanks for your reply and I understand the choice Microsoft have made. BUT....For example, when I use the Quick link webpart in a Intranet and one item refers to an external application, a user can't find anything with search about this app. Am I correct?

beau cameron · Answer

The properties of those web parts are contained within the web part. The contents of a page is contained within CanvasContent1. This property is not indexed by SharePoint because it yields unfavorable results from the search center.&nbsp; You could create a new managed property for this and have it be searchable, but you won't like the results in the search center, because the return value is going to be a bunch of HTML.&nbsp;If you want to classify pages, the best way to do that is to use the Page Details.&nbsp;

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