Where do the search results come from in SharePoint?
A result source specifies where your search results can come from. For example, in our scenario, we did not want search results to come from all sites within the SharePoint farm, but only from one specific site within the farm. The default result source in a Search Center returns search results from the complete SharePoint Server farm.
How to configure the search results web part?
If you want search results from the complete SharePoint Server farm, you can go to the next article in this series, Plan to use refiners on a search results page in SharePoint Server. But, if you want search results from only a subset within your SharePoint Server farm (in our scenario, one specific site), you should create a result source.
How does search service work in SharePoint Server?
When you create a Search service application, the search system automatically creates and configures one content source, which is named Local SharePoint sites. This preconfigured content source is for crawling user profiles, and for crawling all SharePoint Server sites in the web applications with which the Search service application is associated.
Why does SharePoint search not show HTTPS URLs?
Once https is the default URL, I changed SharePoint search content source to crawl https URLs. However it does not work with http://mysite or https://mysite, because I always need use sps3://mysiteURL to crawl my site based on the instruction from Microsoft.
Which is the default search source in SharePoint?
SharePoint Server provides 16 pre-defined result sources for the classic search experience. The pre-configured default result source is Local SharePoint Results. You can specify a different result source as the default.
What to do if SharePoint find a file returning no results?
I recommend to verify the things below: Check the permission of the user to see if the user has permission to view the documents. Do a full crawl in Search Service Application to see if the issue still occurs. Check the Advanced settings of the library to see if the items from this document library are allowed to appear in search results.
Is there a way to find a file in SharePoint?
The Search This Site and enterprise Search Center both return results. However the “Find a File” search box for lists and libraries returns no results whatsoever. As a test, I performed a fresh farm install on a different server and it still doesn’t function. If at first you don’t succeed, ask an MVP.