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How do I set up a site collection?
Specify search settings for a site collection On the site, select Settings , and then select Site settings. If you don’t see Site settings, select Site information, and then select View all site settings. Under Site Collection Administration, click Search Settings.
As a global or SharePoint admin, you can specify how search should behave for a classic site collection or a site. The shared Search Box at the top of most classic pages uses these search settings. Any settings you specify on site collection level applies to all sites within that site collection, unless you specify other settings for the site.
How to create search home page in SharePoint?
When you create an Enterprise Search Center site collection SharePoint creates a default search home page and a default search results page. In addition, several pages known as search verticals are also created.
How to make a website searchable in SharePoint?
On the site, select Settings , and then select Site settings. If you don’t see Site settings, select Site information, and then select View all site settings. Under Search, click Search and offline availability. In the Indexing Site Content section, under Allow this site to appear in Search…
How does content on a site be searchable?
By default, most content contained in a site, list, library, Web Part page, or column will be crawled and added to the search index. What’s in the search index decides what content can appear in search results both in the classic and modern search experiences.
How to add a help category to a site collection?
On the top-level site in your site collection, on the Quick Launch, click Site Contents, and then click the Site Collection Help library. Select the Help collection folder where you want to add a Help category. Click the Files tab on the ribbon, click the arrow next to New Document, and then click Help Category.
How to create a search Center site collection and enable?
To enable continuous crawls: Go to Central Administration –> Manage service applications –> Search Service Applications –> Content Sources. On the Managed Content Sources page, click the content source for which you want to enable continuous crawl. In this scenario, the content source is Local SharePoint sites. Select Enable Continuous Crawls.
How is help stored in a site collection?
Help is stored in a Help collection, a collection of HTML files, images, and other resources—such as CSS and JS files—that apply to a single product or feature. Site collection-specific Help collections are stored in the top-level site in the site collection. To add new Help to a site collection: Create a new Site Collection Help library.
As an admin, locate the site that’s missing results. Click the gear icon in the upper-right corner. Select Site Settings. Under Search, select Search and offline availability. Make sure that Allow this site to appear in search results? is set to Yes. After the setting is set to Yes, the site should be indexed during the next scheduled crawl.
This has been driving me nuts for the past 2 weeks, any help is much appreciated! This is on a single server farm (well, SQL is on a separate box), SharePoint Server 2016, I’m up to the October CU and planning on installing the December CU here in a bit.