Hi all, I want to show pages from a different site collection using the highlighted content with a filter on Content includes the words to only show articles with specific content. This works just fine if the pages are created in the same site, but when I use All sites as my source, it appears that the filters don't work (there are plenty of results, but no filtering) Has anyone else experienced this? Is it a bug, or is there some kind of work-around?

Hi John_Sanders, any chance you can turn off near duplicate trimming in the highlight web part is well? Either change the default behavior or give us an option. The near duplicate trimming in SP search is just not a good thing- and seems to ignore Title all together for modern pages at least. Create multiple articles as modern pages, give them unique titles but write the same content in all, and only one will roll up. Again, thanks to Elsa Naumann for bringing this to my attention :)

Clearly a bug in the code which generates the KQL filter. It's a logical error where the code is not adding () around the content type id filter, messing up interpretation of AND and OR in the final query. So a proper boolean error. Should be reported.

Thanks to Elsa Naumann who noticed the issue with () and contenttypeid has been fixed. Guess stuff happens in the dark :-D The query is however not optimized adding unneeded OR's - but who cares right? :)

The better option would be for the web part not to trim on default. If people want to trim, that could be a future expert setting. In my opinion the default is wrong (as it is in old wp's as well, and it's one of the most common fixes for "I don't find my item in search result", as it's been incorrectly trimmed away. My wish is that you now have a chance to do the right thing and change the default behaviour as it's wrong. And if you do, I will do praise post to your honor :D My old post on the issue: http://www.techmikael.com/2013/12/duplicate-trimming-in-sharepoint-2013.html MarcDAnderson's more recent post on the matter: http://sympmarc.com/2017/01/09/sharepoint-online-search-isnt-displaying-what-i-expect-part-1-trimmed-duplicates/

Ok, I'm getting a similar behaviour. You should probably try using the RefinableString Managed Properties and see if that works better for you.

Modern Pages - Highlighted content not filtering search results for pages in other site collections

Mikael Svenson
Steel Contributor
Jan 03, 2017
Clearly a bug in the code which generates the KQL filter. It's a logical error where the code is not adding () around the content type id filter, messing up interpretation of AND and OR in the final query. So a proper boolean error. Should be reported.
- Mikael Svenson
  Steel Contributor
  Jan 04, 2017
  I've reported it so we'll see what happens.
  - Mikael Svenson
    Steel Contributor
    Jan 16, 2017
    Thanks to Elsa Naumann who noticed the issue with () and contenttypeid has been fixed. Guess stuff happens in the dark :-D
    
    The query is however not optimized adding unneeded OR's - but who cares right? :)
Pieter Veenstra
MVP
Jan 03, 2017
Hi Elsa Naumann,

You can select 3 scopes.
* this site
* This site collection
* All sites

This site will indeed only select from the current site
This site collecction picks data from the current site collection
The All sites option however is giving you exactly what you want. Data from all sites

I then set a filter

Now my documents with the word business in the title field are shown.

Can you give some more detail on the kind of filters that you are using?
- Elsa Naumann
  Brass Contributor
  Jan 03, 2017
  Hi Pieter Veenstra and thank you for your quick reply.
  
  This approach works really well when the scope is "This site" or rather, the pages are in the same site. But when I do the same as below, with the "All sites" scope (as I know the pages I want to highlight are in a different site collection) the filters don't refine the results as accurately, for example titles not including the defined word are not excluded.
  - Pieter Veenstra
    MVP
    Jan 03, 2017
    Hi Elsa Naumann,
    
    How do you do a not contains? The sdtandard filter options don't have this.
    
    I'm assuming that you are using a Maneged property filter here and then select "Doesn't contain" filter. This would now use the search engines managed properties. Yoju will find the same sisues as with search web parts. The problem might not be the web part.
    
    Could you try on a traditional team site to use a search results web part?
    
    In the past I've seeen issues with title fields.
    
    https://veenstra.me.uk/2016/06/30/office-365-making-the-title-field-sortable-in-content-search-and-search-results-web-parts/
    
    I would recommend yusing one of the RefinableStringXX properties instead.

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