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We have global intranet - over 90K users, we have business units that also have their own hubs within the larger intranet-and one business unit that is using translations for some of their content as well - how do you handle search for content in other languages Another question, our homesite is a hubsite- since it is landing site for our global intranet- we have noticed that it does not act as a hubsite - in the sense that it is not limiting search to search across other hubsites that are associated to it but it is searching across all of 0365 (onedrive, teams, other sharepoint sites etc.)-this is causing user confusion so we were looking to use bookmarks to bubble up content from global intranet not sure if any advice?
- Kathrine Hammervold
Microsoft
It is correct that today we do not show answers such as Bookmarks at the site or hub site level. We are currently discussing when we can make this available at the site/hub site level, but I can not give a timeline yet - You can also change the default scope to "Hub" https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/microsoftsearch/manage-spo-search-box
- When you set a site as a home site, you are automatically scoping search to be the entire tenant. You really want search to be at the org-wide level because that is currently the only place that features like Bookmarks, Acronyms, etc. are surfaced. You may want to add a search vertical at the org level so you can limit the scope of search to just that hub that represents your official intranet.
- Kathrine HammervoldIt is possible to configure the search scope for a site to either search globally, the content in the hub site and associated sites, or just the site itself. This is a post that gives some information on how to achieve this Configure modern search results to search all of your organization (rather than the current site). This is a post that explains how https://techcommunity.microsoft.com/t5/sharepoint/configure-modern-search-results-to-search-all-of-your/m-p/447334
- For language and translations support, many query terms will "automatically" work because languages, having different words for terms, will only return documents matching the query language. If you have a lot of query terms that are common across languages, you may use filters in your search verticals to hide the translated version. You could also use Query Variables in the vertical filter KQL to match a preferred language setting.
- Great point! We recently changed our approach to this model you are using to create various hubs per region to help narrowing down search results, still we do get the other 365 items in the results as well. This is expected behavior and how the search and graph are supposed to work, making each search results unique.. It does cause some confusion to users specially when moving from a previous intranet that we could control search results. On this end, we created some additional resources to help users understand how search works and why is unique to each individual. Now, a small hiccup, when we moved from a central hub to have multiple hubs - the bookmarks can only be displayed at the organization level and not at the other regional hubs we have.. ( not cool...) so now our search results are less comprehensive but we have to educate users that they must search on the various levels to find what they need..(bummer..and not so great experience..) (Org>Regional>Site level)
- Yes - I wonder if this will improve- as we also have mutliple hubsites- thanks @aldina
