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I'm trying to do something that should be fairly simple, but after countless hours of Googling I cannot come up with a solution.

Basically I want to have a search box on my top level site, which allows the user to search through all of the document libraries on all of the sub-sites of my root site. I'm using the online version of sharepoint.com (Office365)

My structure is as follows:

root (search box will be here)
|--SubSite1
| |--Document Library 1
| |--Document Library 2
| |--Documebt Library 3
|--SubSite2
| |--Document Library 4
| |--Document Library 5
|--SubSite3
| |--Document Library 6
| |--Document Library 7
| |--Document Library 8
| |--Document Library 9
|--SubSite4
| |--Document Library 10
| |--Document Library 11

... et cetera. I think in total there will be about +- 100 subsites, and an average of 5 document libraries per subsite.

The idea of the root site search is just to provide the user with a quick "catch-all" search through all of the available documents.

Is this possible at all with the Search and Search Result Web Parts? I feel like this is kind of a basic requirement so it should be do-able to create it without doing anything fancy, but after not having found any good information I'm starting to feel a bit lost. :)

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By Default search should bring you results across all Sites (the users has Access to). Or you did somehow scoped the results to current Site

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  • Interesting. I didn't change anything. I just signed up for a trial account ate Sharepoint.com and started experimenting there. EDIT: even if I use the default search on a sub site to search for a filename it does not return anything. Maybe I need to set some setting to include document library files in search results? For example searching for Document Library names or folder names inside the Document Library seems to work.
    – Joachim Seminck
    Aug 21, 2015 at 10:45
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    I guess it does seem to work but it needs about 15 minutes to be updated due to the search crawl setup.
    – Joachim Seminck
    Aug 21, 2015 at 11:24

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