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Modern Document library: Search box gone?
Hello,
this morning I noticed that on all site collections the search box in modern document libraries is gone and instead the unified search bar is shown across the top. However, this does not work. Nothing from either the current site or Office 365 globally can be searched through this bar.
Could this be associated to roadmap-id https://www.microsoft.com/de-ch/microsoft-365/roadmap?filters=&filters=&searchterms=34273
Has anyone noticed the same appear in their tenant?
Thanks!
I opened a support case with Microsoft and the support agent was bewildered as well. We gathered Screenshots and Fiddler logs. To my surprise today everything has reverted back to normal but only for classic team sites. On modern team sites I can still see the new searchbox but in modern document libraries the old searchbox at the top left has returned. At least it's working.
And we determined that this is a preview feature at the moment and only users that, in the M365 admin center under organizational profile, ar enabled for "Targeted release for selected users" will see that feature. I was relieved to learn that as only a few select of our users have gotten confused by that hiccup.
So for the most part, all good now. Thanks for chiming in.
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I'm noticing this as well. I tried to add a comment on this uservoice post, but I'm not sure if it's the right one.
To Microsoft: Having users search library content at the top breaks design concept of hierarchy, especially if we have a mega menu right below it. If we could keep the search box that was on the left of the library, and have the top search for all of Sharepoint/Office 365, that would be amazing. Otherwise we're really going to be in a bind, design and user wise. I'm really hoping for a fix before this roles out to everyone on the tenant.
To shed some more light on our specific situation: currently, we have our own sharepoint-wide search in a custom extension that sits below that section on the page, but it will be confusing with two different searches stacked on top of each other. Our options are to either hide ours or hide Microsofts (via yucky CSS overrides), but hiding Microsofts would also prevent users from searching libraries.
Conversely, we would love to use Microsoft's solution, but it needs to be global for all sites and library pages (and should also have the ability to search for people as well).
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We had the same thing happen earlier this week. The search box did not return results from our document library. I just went to check it again and now it has changed. The search box up top is now replaced with a SharePoint logo, which I don't recall being there, and the search box has returned to the normal position! On another SharePoint page the search box is still at the top, but that is not a document library. This drives me crazy when a feature appears and then disappears. Had this happen with sticky headers in our document library. One day it's there and the next it's gone.
I opened a support case with Microsoft and the support agent was bewildered as well. We gathered Screenshots and Fiddler logs. To my surprise today everything has reverted back to normal but only for classic team sites. On modern team sites I can still see the new searchbox but in modern document libraries the old searchbox at the top left has returned. At least it's working.
And we determined that this is a preview feature at the moment and only users that, in the M365 admin center under organizational profile, ar enabled for "Targeted release for selected users" will see that feature. I was relieved to learn that as only a few select of our users have gotten confused by that hiccup.
So for the most part, all good now. Thanks for chiming in.
We reverted back as well.
Hi Deleted,
We have the same thing in our tenant. It's a bother for our List users who are used to the List specific search box.
The search box from the main site will return the results but also returns related non-List content. Pinning List columns to the Filter pain is the only work around we could offer.
I don't mind the change but our end-users are not big fans of it.
Norm
- I think you might be right because I'm seeing the search box in the top navigation bar...have you tried to search there and test if it only returns items in the document library?
jcgonzalezmartin , if stay on Home page it returns results correctly (quite quick test). If stay on document library it returns any results from entire sharepoint, but not what we have in a document library.
