Configure Enterprise Search in SharePoint 2013

This article explains how to configure an enterprise search in a SharePoint 2013 site. Look at the following points.

Step 1

Go to  theSite Contents Menu.

Site Contents

Step 2

Click new subsite under Subsites.

new Subsite

Step 3

On clicking new subsite, the following screen will appear.

click new Subsite

Step 4

Enter the name of the Title and select Enterprise Search center template in the Enterprise selection.

Enterprise selection

Step 5

Click the Create button.

Create button

Step 6

The following screen will appear.

Search

Step 7

Copy the URL and paste in Notepad.

Step 8

Go to the Site Settings Menu.

Go to Site Settings

Step 9

Click Search Settings under the Search Menu item.

Search Menu item

Step 10

The following screen will appear.

Search Settings

Step 11

Paste the URL into the search center URL TextBox. The URL will be in the following format.

URL text box

Step 12

Uncheck the "Use the same results page settings as my parent" checkbox and check "Send queries to a custom results page URL" item. The URL looks as in the following:

Url looks

Step 13

Click the OK button.

Click Ok button

Step 14

Just go and check “Use the same results page settings as my parent” is selected from the subsite search site settings.

site settings

Summary

In this article we saw how to configure enterprise search in a SharePoint 2013 site.

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