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In a SharePoint Search Center, search results are displayed in a Search Results Web Part. To control how the search results are displayed, two types of display templates are used: The item display template defines how each result is displayed.
How are search results displayed in search box?
In the search index, site columns are “transformed” into managed properties. Site column values are “transformed” into managed property values. On a search page, a user enters a query in a Search Box Web Part.
How to fix SharePoint search query / result mismatch?
After the query was issued, the user was redirected to our search center site collection as expected. However, after the user was redirected the URL string would still contain the correct query string but the search box and results didn’t match the query. So to demonstrate at a high level:
Why do I need to cache search results in SharePoint?
When you apply the custom template you are telling SharePoint to cache everything except search results pages. These pages are the only ones that use the “?k” argument. So that is why we designate that in the custom template. This allows you to cache all other pages for performance but to work around the search results issue.
The webpart will show up under “Imported Webparts”. Add the webpart, and re-connect the searchbox and refiner webpart to your new search result web part (you need to do this even though you remove the old webpart).
Why are my search results not showing up?
While configuring them, I set them to have the same query and result source. Expected result would’ve been the exact same result set and count. But for some reason, the Content By Search web part was returning all the pages as expected but the search results web part was only returning a subset of it.
How to change how search results look in PowerPoint?
For example, there’s a display template for PowerPoint files and another display template for Word documents. A result type says that if the search term is found in a PowerPoint file, then use the PowerPoint display template when showing that result.