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Hello, will you please let me know how I can customize to not to display one subsite results in the main SharePoint 2013 global Search? I know that exclude rule will remove all results but I am using Search API to return results for that specific subsite document libraries. Thats why I don't want to stop crawling/indexing content. If I exclude subsite, my custom search API also returns no result.
Please advise
The only way to exclude content from global/Microsoft Search is to set the no crawl flag which would break your Search API. Unfortunately the capability you're asking for doesn't exist outside of using permission to prevent users from accessing the content.
Hi @Shri-6058 ,
Agree with trevor's statement, if want to exclude subsite result disappear in the global search, the only way is set in "Search and offline availability"->"Allow this site to appear in search results?" -> No.
But it will also break the search API to return sub site document librarys' results.
Thanks
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Thank you so much both of you.
What if I go with a custom search box using custom template - someone explained here: https://www.c-sharpcorner.com/article/steps-to-create-custom-display-templates-in-sharepoint-2013/ but not sure if we can hookup the global search with this.
Hi @Shri-6058 ,
The custom display template is used in a search results web part which is not suitable for global search.
Thanks
Best Regards
Thank you again. So now that I cant do anything from SharePoint configuration/customization side, how about executing Search API impersonating administrator and remove as soon as the query returns result/display? Also, remove everybody's permission for the library to make sure it wont display in global search but ensure crawling/indexing is enabled. I beleieve it should work right?
Thanks
Shri
" how about executing Search API impersonating administrator and remove as soon as the query returns result/display?"
"remove everybody's permission for the library to make sure it wont display in global search but ensure crawling/indexing is enabled. "
Search is secure-based engine, so once remove the permission and executing Search API impersonating administrator it won't display related library content as the user have no permission already.
But it will also break the access for the user access library.
Thanks so much. Somehow the search result display library document with 3 lines in the global search even though they do not have permissions. To ensure I clear the index and completed full crawl. Used a new session. Upon clicking the document, it states you do not have permission but it displays in search result.
I completely removed permission for everyone.
This is strange, in general, remove permission for the library should prevent the search result, you can also try the following option:
3 ways to prevent documents from appearing in search results in SharePoint
Thank you. If I turn off the library search, it completely exclude indexing data from the library. I was trying to index and crawl document library but impersonate Search API within the application. If not, I wanted to remove at least reader level permission to exclude in the search result.
Please advise.
You need to crawl the library otherwise it won't make it into the search index.
You can remove access to the library for all users (sans Site Collection Admins which override your desired permissions) and then if you have an application which uses Application permissions (rather than Delegated), it can execute a search against that location and return results to your users. Users won't be able to access the search results directly unless you handle that again with Application-based permissions (this would not work if you needed to integrate a client app, such as Office, as part of the solution since it would be the end user accessing the document directly).
Thank you. Here is what I have done but strange behavior is happening.
This is happening for 2 subsites content. If I exclude subsite or url, it works just fine. If I crawl, people without permission can see in the search result. Any hotfix or service packs I should apply for this?
My application is simple:
currSPSite = SPContext.Current.Site.ToString();
KeywordQuery query = new KeywordQuery(currSPSite)
SearchExecutor searchExecutor = new SearchExecutor();
ResultTableCollection resultTableCollection = searchExecutor.ExecuteQuery(query);
var searchResult = resultTableCollection.Filter("TableType", KnownTableTypes.RelevantResults);
var resultTable = searchResult.FirstOrDefault();
It returns null, if I exclude search crawling. If I include crawling and removing permission for all, 'Intranet Visitor' gets global search result.
Please advise.