When I add a text filter to a sharepoint page, it only gives me the option to connect the filter to a single column in a list webpart. How can I make the text filter operate like the OOB search bar that appears on a new library and search every column for the term? Do I have to create a parameter and select every column in a giant "or" statement?
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Using the Text Filter web part, we can only configure connection to get filter values from a column in another web part.
You can enable Search Box for the list web part by checking “Display search box” in Miscellaneous.
answered Dec 26, 2017 at 10:22
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Thank you, unfortunately that limits search options to just one webpart and doesn't work on non-default views. I am using the text filter for three webparts on the same page.– KatieDec 27, 2017 at 14:55
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No method to connect a Text Filter web part to multiple list web parts. You can link multiple lists as a data source using SharePoint Designer. Insert the data view with the combined data source into a SharePoint page. Then, use the build-in search in the data view for searching items in multiple lists. Dec 28, 2017 at 6:54
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I do not have a better solution, but for anyone visiting this question: you can get a parameter from the text filter and then filter every field in a list/library to that parameter in the view. Multiple webparts can use the parameter so every webpart on the page can be filtered by the same text filter.– KatieJan 8, 2018 at 20:29