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Please make it easier to find the correct user to contact / share data with.
Please make it easier to find the correct user to contact / share data with.
It has now become apparent that our users have trouble when sharing data and contacting other users. If they search for John Andersson, all they see is the name and the title, they have no way of knowing which John Andersson is the correct one, those users can be in any of the five municipalities, there can also, of course, be three John Andersson in one municipality, or in one department. This is for example the case, but not limited to, when sharing information in…13 votestell us more ·
AdminSharePoint UserVoice Admin
(SharePoint UserVoice Admin, Microsoft SharePoint)
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We’d like to make sure we understood correctly. Is it correct that you’re thinking of when you’re in a dialog to pick the right person to connect with (or a dialog to share a file with a person)?
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Add the ability to search draft items and have it accurately security trimmed.
Currently draft items are not searchable in SharePoint 2013, I don't think this has changed in 2016 or online. If you have a library with half published items and half draft items, it would be very helpful to have the default behavior allow editors to search through draft items while readers only search production items.
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Library Search Results - Quick Edit Option
When viewing search results from a Document Library Search, the Quick Edit option is not an available feature. It would be great if this option was available.
12 votes -
Open file location in modern search
Sharepoint search desperately needs the equivalents of Windows' "Open file location". It's fantastic that sharepoint search shows the path of files found in Sites, but sometimes I want to see the folder the file is in, not the file itself. Surely an easy thing to implement?
Thanks
12 votestell us more ·AdminSharePoint UserVoice Admin
(SharePoint UserVoice Admin, Microsoft SharePoint)
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This article, https://support.office.com/en-us/article/What-s-new-in-search-in-Office-365-b81ab573-ec9c-4aa9-a369-b3c630f878a7, gives an overview of the search user interface and points out where to click to go to the site or folder a file is in. If you click the site link, you’ll be taken to the folder that the file is in on that site.
Let us know if this doesn’t cover what you’d like to do, or if you have ideas for making the experience even better.
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Use Display Templates when rendering results on SharePoint Home
At the top of the SharePoint Home page (_layouts/15/sharepoint.aspx) is a search box. The items shown as a result of using that search box do not respect any configured Display Templates.
12 votesthinking about it ·AdminSharePoint UserVoice Admin
(SharePoint UserVoice Admin, Microsoft SharePoint)
responded
Thanks for your feedback! We’re reviewing your suggestion. Remember, the more votes a suggestion gets, the more likely it is that we’ll do it.
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Allow immediate (re) indexing for specific items
Within search driven applications, actual values of columns within items are critical for users. Imagine a task, shown search driven in my open tasks. If user completes the task on the list, user will expect, that this tasks are not shown in the above mentioned my open tasks.
Therefore allow immediate (re) indexing for specific items (like tasks) - possibly configurable. This actually was possible with SP2010 server side code.
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Show people results in site search results
In modern search, if you have a site's search scope configured to be "Site", the result page does not include people and the people vertical is missing from the results.
/_layouts/15/search.aspx/siteall?q=<queryterm>
Would be great to have the option to show people results within the search, as well as in the instant type-ahead search.
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Export Search Results to CSV/Excel
To the Microsoft Team: Thanks for keeping up the good work while listening thru the "user voice"!
If you have to believe this, there have been at least 10 of my customers who have requested an "EXPORT to CSV" feature on the People Results page. I have seen a lot of other products having the export functionality, and would love to see this added in the SharePoint Online platform.
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custom file extension
Allow adding/removing a file type to the search index in SharePoint online
11 votestell us more ·AdminSharePoint UserVoice Admin
(SharePoint UserVoice Admin, Microsoft SharePoint)
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Thanks for your feedback! We’d like to understand better. Could you give an example of when you’d like to remove a file type?
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Crawl Document Properties for DLP
The following image contains a use case that I have provided MS support for a design change request.
The ultimate issue here is that SharePoint Online search does NOT crawl document level properties. Therefore, DLP cannot use these properties to help protect that document from leaking since DLP is reliant on the search index.
The workaround I have been given is to create a column in the document library where the file is stored; this allows the custom document property to populate the list column in the library upon upload. The challenge with this approach is that this column…
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Mapping administration properties
*English follows Japanese
■Title(件名)：
管理プロパティのマッピングについて
Mapping administration properties
■Description(内容):
現在の動作として SharePoint 管理センターの検索スキーマの管理にて、集計値列をマッピングすることはできないが、これをできるようにしてほしい。
Currently it is not possible to map aggregated value columns in the search schema management of the SharePoint admin center, thus I hope that this can be made possible.10 votes -
I want to exclude a specific user from the search target in "user search" of SharePoint Online
I would like to create a new account for new hires to join, but I would like to prohibit searching for pre-joining users in order to manage confidential information.
10 votes -
"Name" Column visible in Library settings
Currently there is no way to have the "Name" column visible in library settings. It would be nice if we can do changes and add the "Name" column in sharepoint library settings to have easy access.
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Modern PeopleSearch Results
When using the wildcard (*) on Modern PeopleSearch results the mouse cursor is not changed to a vingerpointer when hoovering over the name or picture of a user. The item is clickable but the because the mouse cursor does not change it is confusing for users. Please update the result page so that the mouse cursor is changed.
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Show (also) email attachments in SharePoint people search (like in Delve)
Our colleagues are used to work with SharePoint Search and do not want to use antother app for this purpose. Unfortunately people search in SharePoint doesn't bring up any Email attachments but only files stored in SharePoint or shared within OneDrive. I really hope that this is going to be changed soon...
10 votesthinking about it ·AdminSharePoint UserVoice Admin
(SharePoint UserVoice Admin, Microsoft SharePoint)
responded
Thanks for your feedback! We’re reviewing your suggestion. Remember, the more votes a suggestion gets, the more likely it is that we’ll do it.
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Remove pagination in search results
why limit search results and break them down into pages? You cannot quickly access pages with a higher number, nor do you know how many search results there are - giving you no indication whatsoever of the amount of pages I might have to trawl through.
Pagination in people search results is especially frustrating.
10 votesthinking about it ·AdminSharePoint UserVoice Admin
(SharePoint UserVoice Admin, Microsoft SharePoint)
responded
Thanks for your feedback! We understand your concern and are reviewing your suggestion. Remember, the more votes a suggestion gets, the more likely it is that we’ll do it.
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Hidden Search Box on upper right of the site page
Please make Search Box which on upper right of the site page can be hidden, otherwise user can use search function without authorization.
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Verb Stemming When Searching Sharepoint Sites
When searching a Sharepoint site, you currently must use the exact verb form used in the page you are looking for or the page will not appear in your search results. For example, if you search "Turning off x" by the article is titled "Turn off x", you will not see the article "Turn off x" in your search results.
Stemming the verb in the search would allow less precise searches to still return the expected results; a user seeking help would not think to search for the exact verb form used in a help article they have not found…
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Retrieving logs of search contents, search execution count etc from SharePoint Online sites
*English follows Japanese
■Title(件名)：
SharePoint Online サイト内の検索内容、検索実行数のログ取得
Retrieving logs of search contents, search execution count etc from SharePoint Online sites
■Description(内容):
SharePoint Online サイト内で、以下のような情報を取得できる機能を実装して欲しい
・ 検索日時
・ 検索ワード
・ 検索回数
・ 検索ワードがヒットした回数
・ 検索ワードがヒットしなかった回数
Please implement a feature that can acquire the following information within the SharePoint Online site
- Search date
- Search keywords
- Number of times search was done
- Number of times search keywords were found
- Number of times search keywords were not found9 votes -
External Users should be able to Search Pages and Documents
External Users can not search for Documents and Pages - only Images and Lists/Libraries - on shared Sites.
Please Add Pages and Documents to their Search Results as well.9 votes
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