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matteomessmer
Copper Contributor
Jun 16, 2023

Sharepoint search does not return all the documents I expect

Hi,

I created a site column (single line of text) for article codes and added it to my content type. Then I valorised the column for all documents (500 more or less) with their article codes, re-indexed the site and waited a couple of days.
I give an example of an article code, some of them are formatted like this: "ABCDEF 12345.01/A + Z99.123" where the initial part (ABCDEF 12345.01/A) is present in multiple article codes and only the final part (Z99.123) varies
Now the problem I am experiencing is that if I search for "ABCDEF 12345.01/A" I only find a few (4) of the documents that have this string in the article code, while using the filter on the column I can see there are many more (12).
Would anyone be able to help me understand if I have misconfigured the column or if there is a more serious problem
Thank you

      • Paul de Jong's avatar
        Paul de Jong
        Iron Contributor
        This was the most likely cause. Can you validate if all items in the list have been indexed?
        I normally do this using
        "ParentLink:"https://<tenant>.sharepoint.com/<name of list>/*"
        Also check if you use a really low rowlimit

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