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kmktnn
Iron Contributor
Apr 15, 2019

Search Home Page of Communication Site

There are some Text and Quick Links Web Parts on the home page of communication sites,   When I search for a word that is written in those WebParts in the site top right search box, I don't find t...
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kmktnn
Iron Contributor
Jun 04, 2019

We opened a ticket #14165902 with Microsoft. It's confirmed as a design behaviour that the content of the home page of Team or Communication sites is not searchable at the site level. A hotfix request is filed with the Engineering team and they will review it. There is no ETA.

  • Vishal Seth's avatar
    Vishal Seth
    Copper Contributor
    Jul 17, 2020
    About 20K employees refuse to out their content into sharepoint sites going to other toilets instead. Only because of this limitation. No use authoring a nice site if you can't search for the content. It's been over a year on this thread. Longer on uservoice. Taking the time to reply back to let folks know that this still does not work. No hotfix was rolled out.
    • Mikael Svenson's avatar
      Mikael Svenson
      Iron Contributor
      Jul 20, 2020

      Vishal Seth this issue is only about not returning the home page of a site when you stand on that homepage and search. If you're already on the page the issue is not that large - but agree that returning the home page would still be nice.

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        kmktnn
        Iron Contributor
        Dec 23, 2020

        Mikael Svenson For me the issue is still the same.

         

        If I search from another page of the same site, I cannot find the home page content (in Text WebPart).

         

        But I know that the content is indexed because the same search from the SharePoint home page (_layouts/15/sharepoint.aspx) can find the home page.

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