Recently when I am searching an item through Find an Item search box in a SharePoint 2013 list, it did not give me any search result. But in the list, some items are presented with a particular keyword. Here we will see Find an item search box does not return results in SharePoint 2013/2016 or SharePoint Online.
The Find an Item in place search box, allows users to quickly search for items or documents inside the list or library in SharePoint.
o see the search results, we do not need to navigate to any other search result page. This is how the Find an Item in place search box looks like in list or document libraries.
SharePoint Find an Item List search box does not return results
To solve Find an Item List search box does not return results in SharePoint follow the below steps:
Open the SharePoint 2013/2016/Online list and then go to the List settings page. And then click on Advanced Settings.
In the Advanced Settings page, Go to the Search section and then select “Yes” in the Allow items from this list to appear in search results? radio button.
And if possible click on “Reindex List” button in the Reindex List section in the same List Advanced Settings page. Once you reindex list, we have to wait for some time.
The other thing you can try is to go to the List settings and then click on Versioning Settings. In the Versioning Settings page Select “Yes” for “Require content approval for submitted items?” in the Content Approval section. Read more on SharePoint 2013 Online content approval.
Another important thing we have to follow if the above steps does not solve the issue.
The column needs to be searchable if you want to search for content in the list or library. For this, we need to create the managed properties and map the crawled properties of the columns in the custom list. You can also check out this article for a little more information.
Apart from this, we need to make sure that the items should have been crawled and indexed properly, If you are using the SharePoint On-premises version, you can start a full crawl.
You can also read an article on SharePoint search managed properties.
You may like the following SharePoint tutorials:
- How to delete all items from SharePoint list
- How to customize a SharePoint List form
- SharePoint list permissions
- Create SharePoint list view
- SharePoint list delete title column or SharePoint list title column remove
- How to create a calculated column in SharePoint List or Library
- SharePoint list templates
Hope this SharePoint tutorial helps to solve the Find an Item List search box does not return results issue in SharePoint Online/2013/2016.
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How to rename the search box inline value “find a file” .
I want to rename the value as “KEYWORD..”
I tried to add the placeholder to that input on window load.
But after any search or click outside the search box, i get “find a file” option only