Searching content
Search is a core part of the SharePoint user experience. It enables users to find relevant business information and documents more quickly and easily than ever before.
For this recipe, I am going to act as a marketing manager who would like to search for our visual design guide, which I remember is called “Branding Elements.”
Getting ready
All you need is Read access to the site where you will be performing your search. The results that SharePoint returns are security trimmed, which means you will only see content that you have access to through direct or indirect permissions.
How to do it...
To perform a search within a site, follow these steps:
- Browse to any page on the site where you’d like to perform the search. In our example, I will browse to my Sales and Marketing site.
- Start typing your search keywords to see the relevant results. In this case, we will start typing
Branding Elements. We’ll notice...