{"id":122,"date":"2020-02-17T16:20:25","date_gmt":"2020-02-17T15:20:25","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/help.metashare.com\/metashare-help-admin-manual-why-create-a-customized-search-results-page\/"},"modified":"2025-04-01T23:08:40","modified_gmt":"2025-04-01T21:08:40","slug":"why-create-a-custom-search-results-page","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/help.metashare.com\/en\/metashare\/faq\/search\/why-create-a-custom-search-results-page\/","title":{"rendered":"Why should I create a\u00a0custom search results page?"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

When searching for documents in the “Search for documents” tab in MetaShare’s start page<\/a>, users get the option to show the search results in SharePoint’s search results page, by clicking on the “Show results in SharePoint” link:
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By default, SharePoint has a standard search result page that will be used to display the search results. This standard search result page does not have any possibilities to refine documents, based on custom metadata. It will look like this:
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To get a better search experience in MetaShare and in the rest of SharePoint, the recommendation is to create a customized search results page that only shows documents (with the option to also switch to other result types, such as People, Videos, etc.) and get more relevant search suggestions by filtering down your search results using custom search refiners (e.g. Workspace, File type, Document type, etc.):
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Or you can narrow down your search suggestions by searching on specific document properties, e.g. only showing document that are tagged with “Windows information protection” as a Keyword, using a search alias for the keyword column:
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To create a custom search results page, you need to be global administrator of your Microsoft 365 tenant or a SharePoint administrator<\/a>. Contact a MetaShare partner or MetaShare support<\/a> if you need assistance in creating a customized search results page or follow the instructions under these 2 pages:<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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  1. Configure managed properties<\/a><\/li>\n\n\n\n
  2. Create a custom search results page<\/a><\/li>\n<\/ol>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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