Can you search across multiple SharePoint sites?

Can you search across multiple SharePoint sites?

To search multiple sites, you need a search center. Or, send queries to _layouts/15/osssearchresults. aspx instead of using the results page settings as the parent in site or site collection level.

How do I search a SharePoint subsite?

Click on the Navigation link under the Look and Feel group in the site settings. Check the box for ‘Show subsites’. Click OK.

How do I create a search in SharePoint?

Specify search settings for a site collection

1. On the site, select Settings.
2. Under Site Collection Administration, click Search Settings.
3. To specify a Search Center, in the Search Center URL box, type the URL of the Search Center site.

How do I find all sites and subsites in SharePoint?

To display all subsites within a site collection, you need to use the Get-SPWeb cmdlet with the Identity parameter. If you provide only the site collection URL, Get-SPWeb returns only the site collection web object. Therefore, you need to provide a wildcard path, as shown in Listing 8.11.

How do I get to advanced search in SharePoint?

To display the Advanced Search page, click the Advanced link next to the Search box on the search results page or on a Search Center site.

How do I do a wildcard search in SharePoint?

For wildcard to work in SharePoint…

1. You have to start with the first few letter of the word.
2. The wildcard character in SharePoint is “*“.
3. You can use SharePoint wildcard search with both Options (global search and library-level search)

How do I search for a word in SharePoint?

How to Search For Files in SharePoint

1. Click into the Search Box in the top right-hand corner of your SharePoint Site.
2. Type the text/keyword you are looking for.
3. Hit Enter.

How do I change search settings in SharePoint?

On the search administration page, select Search Center Settings. In the Search Center URL box, enter the URL of the Search Center site. Example: http://companyportal/searchcenter/pages. Select OK.

How do I enable search in SharePoint?

On the List Settings page, under General Settings, click Advanced settings. In the Search section, under Allow items from this document library to appear in search results, select Yes to include all of the items in the list or library in search result.

What is get-SPWeb?

Description. The Get-SPWeb cmdlet returns all subsites that match the scope given by the Identity parameter. Additionally, if the Regex parameter is provided, the Identity parameter is treated as a regular expression and any subweb with a URL provided in the given scope that matches the expression is returned.

What is subsite in SharePoint?

Any site you create in SharePoint is a subsite since it will reside under some other site in your site hierarchy. The only site that is a true site and not a subsite is the very top site of the site collection since it does not appear under any other sites.