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. :)