Content Search Web Part not displaying results

Question

I am trying to use the Content Search Web Part and am having trouble. My query is configured and the test result panel is returning the desired results, yet when I save the web part, nothing is being rendered on the page. I am not yet using this for Cross-site collection queries but have enabled the Cross-Site Collection Publishing feature anyways.

Other Web Part Properties:

Display Templates = { Control: "List"; Item: "Two Lines"}

Property Mappings = {Link URL: "Path"; Line 1: "Title"; Line 2: "Description"}

Settings = {Query Results provided by: "This Web Part"; Result Table: "RelevantResults"; Start displaying results from result number: "1"}

I cannot figure out why the results show up in my test query yet I get no results on the page. Any help is appreciated.

Answer 1

This appears to be a js conflict issue. One of my designers had added a js script in the custom Master Page, when he was trying to add some new functionality that he never got working.

<script src="//ajax.aspnetcdn.com/ajax/4.0/1/MicrosoftAjax.js" type="text/javascript"></script>

Removing this reference fixed the issue.

Answer 2

We need to enable a feature SearchDrivenContentFeatureId Feature id : 592ccb4a-9304-49ab-aab1-66638198bb58
You can run below acript to do the same but make sure you have SharePoint management shell and SharePoint online SDK is pre installed

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Script that enables a feature in a SPO Site

Required Parameters:

-> $sUserName: User Name to connect to the SharePoint Online Site Collection.

-> $sPassword: Password for the user.

-> $sSiteColUrl: SharePoint Online Site Collection

-> $sFeatureGuid: GUID of the feature to be enabled

#

$host.Runspace.ThreadOptions = "ReuseThread"

Definition of the function that allows to enable a SPO Feature

function Enable-SPOFeature { param ($sSiteColUrl,$sUserName,$sPassword,$sFeatureGuid) try {
#Adding the Client OM Assemblies
Add-Type -Path "\Microsoft.SharePoint.Client.dll" Add-Type -Path "\Microsoft.SharePoint.Client.Runtime.dll"

    #SPO Client Object Model Context
    $spoCtx = New-Object Microsoft.SharePoint.Client.ClientContext($sSiteColUrl) 
    $spoCredentials = New-Object Microsoft.SharePoint.Client.SharePointOnlineCredentials($sUsername, $sPassword)  
    $spoCtx.Credentials = $spoCredentials      

    Write-Host "----------------------------------------------------------------------------"  -foregroundcolor Green
    Write-Host "Enabling the Feature with GUID $sFeatureGuid !!" -ForegroundColor Green
    Write-Host "----------------------------------------------------------------------------"  -foregroundcolor Green

    $guiFeatureGuid = [System.Guid] $sFeatureGuid
    $spoSite=$spoCtx.Site
    $spoSite.Features.Add($sFeatureGuid, $true, [Microsoft.SharePoint.Client.FeatureDefinitionScope]::None)
    $spoCtx.ExecuteQuery()
    $spoCtx.Dispose()
}
catch [System.Exception]
{
    write-host -f red $_.Exception.ToString()   
}    

}

Required Parameters

$sSiteColUrl = "https://.sharepoint.com/" $sUserName = "@.onmicrosoft.com" $sFeatureGuid= "592ccb4a-9304-49ab-aab1-66638198bb58"

$sPassword = Read-Host -Prompt "Enter your password: " -AsSecureString

$sPassword=convertto-securestring "" -asplaintext -force

Enable-SPOFeature -sSiteColUrl $sSiteColUrl -sUserName $sUserName -sPassword $sPassword -sFeatureGuid $sFeatureGuid