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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.

 

 

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    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.

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      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?

      • Pieter Veenstra's avatar
        Pieter Veenstra
        MVP
        Jan 11, 2017

        Mike Jansen,

         

        Did you check both your result source and the web part query?

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    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

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