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Issues with Modern Search for List items (Nothing found by modern search)
Well I guess this is the Official answer from Microsoft. I still think it is BS as this is something that should be core to search (lets just forget searching 50% or more of all results).
This behavior is a known issue and limitations with communication site
Symptom
Searching on a communication site that includes list data does not return that list data.Cause
This is a limitation of search on Communication Sites. Communication Sites currently use the Microsoft Graph for search, and there is no signals for list data at this timeResolution
Signals for List data is something that is going to be included in the product in a future release, there is no current ETA on that feature landing
MicrosoftNew search page including list items should now be deployed world wide also for sharepoint home / portal home page.
I must be missing something as I'm still encountering issues trying to use inline search for lists or search from the Hub site home page. As far as I can tell, I have everything setup properly. Would be grateful if someone could point me to some documentation I may have overlooked to ensure search is working in a modern SharePoint hub/comm/team site and lists.
It would be great if 'searching for suggestion' (before hitting enter in the search box) includes results from lists items. I only see items from pages/documents/sites currently showing up as suggestions.
You mentioned 'We are working on improving this to give you best possible relevance and a performant solution, but as said we currently do not have completeness for all items withing a hubsite in the searchbox.' Any timelines or idea on when we can see such improvements (i.e. list items getting included as part of suggestions)?
Thank you!
Sarah
Apologies for the late reply but thanks for reaching out. Turns out it was just a REALLY SLOW crawl.
- Geir-Magnus Pettersen
Are you searching from the homepage of the hubsite by hitting enter in the searchbox or do you mean searching for suggestion within the searchbox when you say inline search?
As for hubsites you should get all documents/listitems from all associated sites when searching by hitting enter from the hubsite homepage searchbox and transitioning to the search results page.
The suggestions that appear in the searchbox are currenlty not the complete set of documents/listitems for the entire hubsite. To be able to provide you with performant and fast suggestions, we are currently not able to show all complete results for the whole hubsite in the searchbox. We only show the suggestions that we think are the most relevant based on previous activities of the current user and people that the user works with. We are working on improving this to give you best possible relevance and a performant solution, but as said we currently do not have completeness for all items withing a hubsite in the searchbox.
Maybe you could send me a private message with some screenshots of where you do your search from if I misunderstood your post.
