Pnpjs: sp search for a site collection and use a result source

[ssprajput]

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I want to be able to search on an internal site collection (not the root or tenant site collection as I don't have permission there but I am site collection admin on this internal site collection ) and I want to be able to specify the result source id. Actually I am using SP Proxy pointing at tenant level and configuration in my Angular project to get instance of various webs to get data. In this setting, I want to be able to search using sp.search but since the proxy is pointing to tenant site collection, I am unable to use the result source which is different than the one Proxy is pointing to.

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[koltyakov]

Hi @ssprajput!

Great description of the issue. Appreciate you've spent so much time describing your needs and reading the documentation before posting an issue marking it as a bug. Thanks!

The docs describe SearchQuery usage https://pnp.github.io/pnpjs/sp/docs/search/#search

You can provide all the variety of search params which REST Search API ever supports:

import { sp, SearchQuery } from '@pnp/sp';

sp.search(<SearchQuery>{
    Querytext: "test",
    RowLimit: 10,
    EnableInterleaving: true,
})
    .then((r) => {
        console.log(r.PrimarySearchResults);
    });

[esandeep]

So this is exactly I did in my coding as this is theer in documentation. The issue is, in this sp.search, the sp by default is an instance of the SiteCollection at root level. I use SPProxy for local development and the proxy points to contoso.sharepoint.com. This is because the app uses multiple site collections for getting and sending data so I cannot point the proxy to this app hosting site collection. So in my case, for example, if my tenant is contoso.sharepoint.com, this sp is referring to root site collection there. And my app site is under a different path for example teams/billingdev. I tried instantiating an object of a Site and realized that search is not available at Site object, I think sp in sp.search is an instance of SPRest object pointing. So if I build and deploy on site collection, it works though then it has different issue, but that is for another post. So ideally I should be able to provide an URL to sp object and force it to use my site collection and the result source that I am using exist in my teams/billing site collection. Then it would work on my local mode using SPProxy on tennat site collection as base. Without that being available, it doesn't find the result source on contoso.sharepoint.com.

[koltyakov]

That's how Search API works. You can try changing site context with new Search(webAbsUrl).
This might be helpful: https://github.com/pnp/pnpjs/issues/606#issuecomment-492262934

[ssprajput]

Thanks a bunch, This is exactly what I looking for. Not sure if I should ask it here but this is another issue. List items have multiple attachments The search result received doesn't tell the attachment file name where it found the searched term. I see some places people have used LinkOfficeChild managed property and I am trying to see if that sill works, but even then that would render all the attachment for the item without tell which attachment had the searched term.

[wobba]

@ssprajput a list item counts as one item only in search, regardless of the number of attachments. That's just a limit we've lived with for over 10 years in SharePoint and search. It's a hard technical challenge to solve in a good way. Attachments are great, but also comes with disadvantages.

[patrick-rodgers]

Going to close this as answered, thanks all!

[sandeepvootoori]

Seems like this is not valid anymore and I cannot find anything on the pnp js site.
Can someone please help me doing the same?

[wobba]

@SV932 a bit hard to understand your issue. And ask new issues as new items, don't comment on closed ones.