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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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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.

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
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
  MVP
  Jan 11, 2017
  Mike Jansen,
  
  Did you check both your result source and the web part query?
  - Mike Jansen
    Iron Contributor
    Jan 12, 2017
    In advanced mode:
    
    "path:"https://banninglaw.sharepoint.com/sites/test" (FileExtension:doc OR FileExtension:docx OR FileExtension:xls OR FileExtension:xlsx OR FileExtension:ppt OR FileExtension:msg OR FileExtension:pptx OR FileExtension:pdf) (IsDocument:"True" OR contentclass:"STS_ListItem")"
    
    Nothing magic here. The result source is just the "documents" result source