Configure modern search results to search all of your organization (rather than the current site)
Hey everyone, We heard from many of you the need to be able to change the scope of your modern search results pages. When you create a new communication site or team site in SharePoint Online today, and type into the search box, you are taken to the modern search results page. This page shows results from your current site by default, and allows you to expand the scope of your search to the hub that the current site is associated with (if there is one), or to the whole organization. But there is a desire for being able to change the behavior to always search over the whole organization, or across the hub a site is associated with, without needing an additional click, especially if the site in question will be used as a modern landing page for your organization. I'm happy to say that with the latest version of the SharePoint PnP PowerShell extensions, it is possible to run a simple command as the site owner, and make your site use the organization, or the hub scope by default. To change this setting: 1. Start PowerShell in administrator mode as you will be installing the PnP extensions. 2. Run the following commands to in this order: PS C:\WINDOWS\system32> Install-Module SharePointPnPPowerShellOnline # If you previously had installed this module, you may need to use the "-Force" parameter to install the newer version. PS C:\WINDOWS\system32> Connect-PnPOnline -Url https://contosodemosg.sharepoint.com/sites/Strategy -UseWebLogin # this will prompt you to sign into your site. Use the site owner credentials to sign in PS C:\WINDOWS\system32> $web = Get-PnPWeb PS C:\WINDOWS\system32> $web.SearchScope = 1 # 1 for Tenant, 2 for Hub, 3 for Site, 0 for default behavior PS C:\WINDOWS\system32> $web.Update() PS C:\WINDOWS\system32> Invoke-PnPQuery After running these commands, the site will start to show results from the whole organization. To go back to the default setting, run the commands again with the value provided to "SearchScope" parameter to 0. To search across the Hub, use 2 as the SearchScope value. We will be providing a way to set this setting using the UI in a future release as well. Updated in April 2020 to reflect the ability to search across Hubs.
Limiting Search Box Results to Wiki Page Library
I have created a Wiki Page Library for a knowledge base our team uses and added a search box. I would like the search box to only bring back results from the library, not the entire site, but this doesn't seem to be possible. I've looked at 'edit web part' including in the advanced section but am none the wiser.
Custom search to search pdf files in certain librarys
Hi! I have set up document system with three different document librarys. Togheter they hold about 32000 pdf documents. I have implement the custom search module on my site and created a custom search resultspage. I have redirected the search to resultspage and defined the document librarys. I have also tried to define the SharePoint result source and search terms but with no luck. I have tried many different combinations like path:https://sharepoint document url like below with no luck. The results find my document librarys, but doesnt search in them for the files. It only shows a link to the document library instead of the files. Is ther something i missing or isnt this possbile to achieve? Do I have to create a Scope? Crawl? I really dont understand those features. Please help! 🙂 {SearchBoxQuery}( (Path:http://sharepoint/sites/demo/dev/DocLib1 (FileExtension:pdf)) OR (Path:http://sharepoint/sites/demo/dev/DocLib2 (FileExtension:pdf)) OR (Path:http://sharepoint/sites/demo/dev/DocLib3(FileExtension:pdf)) )Hide Results (files and folders) from User's OneDrive when using top Search Bar
Hey All, When a user enters a keyword in the top bar of on SharePoint-based Intranet, the results show files and folders from specific people's OneDrive. Is there a way to have that NEVER show as a result when using the top search bar on any page throughout our Intranet? We're not using a custom search results page. Thanks, Scott
Search per column in libraries or lists
Hello, in our old Sharepoint 2013 we added kind of a "live search bar" under every column with a script. Is there any way to add or configure something similar in SharePoint Online? Or any Apps that would provide something like this? The search bar with KQL syntax is not very comfortable for the average PC user.
Auto-append trailing * wildcard to search for substrings in modern sharepoint
I have a modern communication site and if I search a list for 'can', it will not return Canada, or Canadian in my results. but if I search for can*, both items will be returned. I believe it is possible to program classic search to append this wildcard automatically, so I don't need to type the * every time. But does anyone know how I can achieve this with modern search? And please no one reply with, "this isn't possible". It seems to me, that if this isn't possible, why hasn't Microsoft fixed this yet? I've never seen another intranet search engine work this way. Or am I missing a simple solution to this? Any help would be greatly appreciated. It is not natural for end users to have to remember to type a * at the end of their search string, which consequently returns poor results for their searches..SharePoint Online - Guest users access to people search
Hi, I'm wondering if it is possible for guests users have access to people search in SharePoint Online. We are using search rest api to get results from people result source. I found this settings on Azure Portal (Users > User settings > External collaboration settings) Even with the most inclusive option, with a guest we can have access to people search results. I can't find any official documentation supporting the case - supporting or not guest to get people search results. Any idea? Thanks
How to set sorting for SharePoint search results
We are using a classic site in SharePoint Online. Currently there are in the default "related order", but in addition to this I would like to set the "updated by" date and time. I have received a response from Microsoft that this cannot be implemented with the standard SharePoint functionality,If anyone has experience implementing this by using the sort operator, etc., please share the procedure with us.
