Hi all,
I'm running SP2013 and using host named site collections architecture. At the moment my enterprise search centre is actually the landing site of our intranet at http://intranet.company.com. Each department is its own site collection, using host header managed path e.g. http://intranet.company.com/sites/it, /sites/hr etc.
We also have other site collections such as http://projects.company.com, http://tenant1.company.com.
I know if I do a search within the site collection of a given host header, e.g. searching within Intranet, results from IT and HR would return, and like wise searching within Projects I get everything under Projects whether it's a sub site or a site collections using host header managed path.
My question is is there a way to have results returned from multiple site collections with different host header using one search centre? I'd like Intranet search to be able to also return results from the Projects site collection, or is this not possible?
My situation is similar to the poster here: http://sharepoint.stackexchange.com/questions/83310/location-for-search-center-in-a-sharepoint-2013-implementation
According to Matthew's response, all I have to do is "in each Site Collection configure the search settings to use the "global search center"". So I point the Projects site collection to use the Intranet search centre, uploaded a test file in the project site, did a incremental crawl, checked that the Projects site search picks up the test file, went to the Intranet search centre and did the same search but nothing came back. Am I missing something?
Thank you.
- Edited by Hyde1031 5 hours 40 minutes ago