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Search on modern communication site, url issue with "siteall" vertical
Setting scope of a teamsite to tenant wide is now available:
MicrosoftHi!
I'm working on the modern search experience. The idea is that when you search from within a site, the search is scoped to documents from within that site. We have got some feedback that user might want to do a global search for all of sharepoint when searching from a communication site.
If you click on the Sharepoint pice of the search breadcrumb you will upscope to global sharepoint search:
What do you think? When searching from a site should we do global search of all of sharepoint or should we continue doing a scoped search?
Hello,
A MS support engineer told us that we could use the breadcrumb to change the scope. I don't know exactly why we didn't noticed it ourselves. Probably because SharePoint is such a broad term. Maybe a usability test could find out if "All sites" or "All SharePoint sites" would have been better. Another potential issue is that the end user can only broaden the scope from the current site to global, but not the other way around. I assume this is why you opt for current site as default search scope.
We need the global scope because we are slowly migrating to modern sites and pages and almost all of our content is still in old site collections
Ideally it would have leveraged the settings from /_layouts/15/enhancedSearch.aspx?level=sitecol where the site admin can define the search scope for that site (collection).
For custom PowerApps forms in SharePoint lists, it was possible to reuse a traditional SharePoint setting page for a modern feature, so maybe this could be done here as well until a modern settings page is available.
Adding the option to the new Site information side bar could be another option but I guess you don't want to end up cramming all site settings in this side bar.
Our temporary solution right now is to hide the out of the box search box with suggestions and replace it with a basic custom build search box redirecting to the global scoped modern search page.
Hope this helps.
Bart