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MicrosoftConfigure modern search results to search all of your organization (rather than the current site)
Hi Rick DeFoe, we are actually working on making that happen. We hope that will be coming in the next couple of months.
Kerem Yuceturk Has there been any update to this? We are deploying our intranet and we have the scope set to just what it is out of the box which gives us results from the sites connected to our intranet hub. The problem is that it doesn't give us the people search capability. When I set the scope to include all of SharePoint, I feel like our results are cluttered up with a lot of information and even OneDrive. Will we be able to add in the people Search without all of SharePoint?
- Kerem Yuceturk
Joe Volk , Max Goss , as you pointed out promoted results/answers as well as people are only available at the organization level, and not at site and hub levels. This is due to the challenge of not being able to easily scope these entities to the sites and hubs we are dealing with. While we don't have any plans on this at the moment, I am sending your feedback to some of my colleagues to consider. We will enable some capabilities to customize the verticals in the second half of the year as well.
At the moment, building a custom results page could be one solution for meeting this scenario.
Joe Volk we are in the same situation for our Intranet deployment, We've gone down the route of tweaking the search so that it does include all of SharePoint, primarily so that people and promoted results are returned. What we really need is the ability to scope SharePoint search to a hub / collection of Hubs but have the ability to showcase People and / or promoted results.
In the latest version of SPFX I have seen a preview feature on search customisation which might help: https://developer.microsoft.com/en-us/sharepoint/blogs/announcing-sharepoint-framework-1-10-extending-sharepoint-framework-across-microsoft-365/
That being said, having more options to control search via PowerShell / UI is a must I think for Intranet deployment.
Thanks,
-Max
