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Office 365 groups and SharePoint search
Is it possible to include Office 365 group data such as documents in an Office365 goup in Search results on a SharePoint online site?
- I believe that's the problem...currently Delve cannot surface documents that are living on Private Groups (I also think Microsoft is working currently on surfacing documents that are in private Groups) and since Delve is powered by the Office Graph what means search behind the scenes that's the reason IMHO why you are not able to search for documents that belong to a private Group...just my two cents
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Pieter VeenstraI was creating a Search Result Source that included Path:https://.../Teams/ModernSite and was not seeing at all what I expected. As a site owner, I expected I could see everything. After digging, it looks like the Members do get place into the SharePoint Members group, but the Owners do not get put into the SharePoint Owners group. I saw nothing from the result source until I specifically put myself into the SP Owners group and reindexed the library. While the Modern search appears to comprehend the Office 365 groups, SharePoint search does not appear to do so and Owners added to Members for search purposes. SharePoint search still depends on SharePoint security groups. When looking to create result sources that include modern, don't rely on the Office 365 Groups.
- Ey Pieter Veenstra I have just verified that I can search Office Group Data (Files stored in the Groups document library) from SPO Search Center...is that what you mean?
jcgonzalezmartin, I'm not getting any results back in the search center either. When I search within the group site itself search seems to be working, but not from within a SharePoint site.
- Is that a private Group? In my case, I'm able to search Group documents in the search center....in the tests I did I was looking for documents stored in a public Group
- I tried it within a search result web part on my portal site by setting the query to Path:...... And that didn't work. I will try it from a search centre tomorrow.
