Can I show all possible results in Search Result Web Part?

Question

I have a web part page with three web parts:

• Search Box
• Search Results
• Refinement

When I load the page, I get the "Nothing here matches your search" in the Search Results web part and the "We don't have any refiners to show you" in the Refinement Web Part.

What I would like is to display all possible results by default and then refine those based on user input (essentially, using search box input as just another refiner).

Answer 1

Search Results web part can be configured with pre-built queries by editing the web part properties and specifying the query. You can use * as query which attempts to return all matching results.