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Mike Jansen's avatar
Mike Jansen
Iron Contributor
Jan 10, 2017

Sharepoint search box web part - results only current site

I thought this would be easy but I can't find is out. On a site I use the (standard) search box web part. When I use this it returns results from the whole site collection. I do not want that. I onl...
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Brent Ellis's avatar
Brent Ellis
Silver Contributor
Jan 10, 2017
Try adding this to your Change Query option under the properties of the the Search Results Web Part

Path:{Site.URL}
  • Pieter Veenstra's avatar
    Pieter Veenstra
    MVP
    Jan 10, 2017

    Hi Brent Ellis,

     

    Does that work?

     

    Isn't Site.Url using the Site of the search results web part? Therefore If all search boxes on many sites all need to lead to the same search results page then that wouldn't work. you would get results from where the search result page has been created.

     

     

    • Brent Ellis's avatar
      Brent Ellis
      Silver Contributor
      Jan 10, 2017
      Ah thx, missed that point, ya, we have always resorted to hard-coding the Paths and -Paths, and using the QueryStrings like Peter mentioned, less trouble than its worth.

      • Mike Jansen's avatar
        Mike Jansen
        Iron Contributor
        Jan 11, 2017

        Part 2 ;-)

         

        Solved it but, a bit strange, I think.

        Like mentioned I've changed the results page url like this:

        https://mytenant/sites/test/sitePages/results_test.aspx?u={contexturl}&mypath='https://mytenant/sites/test/customer500/case1'

         

        I did not do anything with the "mypath" variable anywhere. Even not in the result source.

        I'm not a big fan of solutions that suddenly work, without knowing why ;-)

         

        Can someone explane why this seems to work?

    • Mike Jansen's avatar
      Mike Jansen
      Iron Contributor
      Jan 10, 2017
      Pieter Veenstra wrote:

      Hi Brent Ellis,

       

      Does that work?

       

      Isn't Site.Url using the Site of the search results web part? Therefore If all search boxes on many sites all need to lead to the same search results page then that wouldn't work. you would get results from where the search result page has been created.

       

       

      Indeed my experience as well

  • Mike Jansen's avatar
    Mike Jansen
    Iron Contributor
    Jan 10, 2017
    Brent Ellis wrote:
    Try adding this to your Change Query option under the properties of the the Search Results Web Part

    Path:{Site.URL}

    I tried that but it takes the url of the page where the search results page is located (the root in my case) not the page where the query was issued.

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