Hi,

We use SharePoint Foundation 2013 and added a Content Sources pointing to a File Shares.

We see in the logs that the folder has been crawled, but no result appears when we made a search.

Any idea ?

Thks

C

by the logs, do you mean the crawl logs?  

1. If so are you sure you are searching using the everything result source?  The default within sites is to search only that site.
2. Are you searching as someone who has NTFS security access to the file?  If not the result will be security trimmed out.

Hi Paul,

Yes I mean the crawl logs.

Oups, you are right, when I make a search, the search box tells me that I am searching on "this site".

But I don't see any way to search on everything.

Thks

For that you either need a search center or to modify the the search settings of the site collection.

Ok to to modify the the search settings of the site collection, but is it possible with SharePoint Foundation ?

I don't see where.

Thks

 

You modify it under the Search Settings link in the Site collection Administrator's Settings.  In order to use the dropdown you will need to create a Search Center.  

You should be able to search in the Search Center and find results in the document share.  Adding a Link in the Search center 'Tabs in Search Pages' list should add an entry to the dropdown in the regular site after you point it at the search center for results.  That entry in the dropdown will let you Search Every

Thanks a lot Paul, it's working and I am able to see the file shares results !

I still have a question: when the user is on the main site, he is now able to choose "Everything" instead of "This Site". I want to allow my users to directly select a Result source or a Sontent source from the basic search combo.

Is it possible with SharePoint Foundation ?

Thks

Charles

For that you create result specific result pages. I know how to do it in SharePoint server, but it requires Managed Metadata service to modify the navigation settings. That isn't available in Foundation. I'm doing some research and hope to have a Blog post with what is possible and what isn't in the next few days. I'll put a link here when its ready.

Hi Paul,

To allow my user to limit his search to a specific scope, I create a custom search page where the user can choose a seach scope. A javascript automatically concatenate a Path instruction to the search string given by the user.

Then I call the results.aspx of my SharePoint Search Center site. This page is showed on a IFrame in my main site.