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I have a site with two webparts (search input field and search results). On each pageload it's searching for an empty string and returns all results, similar to "*".

Querytext: {SearchBoxQuery}( IsDocument:"True" OR contentclass:"STS_ListItem_GenericList")

Is there a way to show the results not until the user presses enter or the search button?

Thanks in advance!

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  • Why don't you specify If Condition if not null?
    – SharePointMan
    Apr 8, 2014 at 11:54
  • Where can i do this, what's the Syntax for my querytext?
    – mbauer
    Apr 8, 2014 at 13:24
  • Using the "?" before the {searchTerms} seems to be breaking an exact match search, for example, if I used double quotes and two search terms as "cloud computing", zero results are displayed. Anyone see this behavior?
    – JustMy2Cents
    Jun 2, 2017 at 18:16

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Try to wrap it in {? }

{?{searchTerms} (contentclass:STS_ListItem OR IsDocument:True)}
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    This worked for me as well. Is the question mark in the documentation at all? I can't seem to find it.
    – Omar Stewey
    Oct 4, 2014 at 3:25
  • Nope - you Can see it sometimes in a preconfigured webpart. You can read more about it in Mikael's awesome series: melcher.it/s/2R
    – Max Melcher
    Oct 4, 2014 at 6:56
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    Thanks Matt! Even 2 years later, you are still helping people!
    – user53667
    Apr 26, 2016 at 13:59
  • Haha - thanks for that one mate. And can call me Matt if you want :)
    – Max Melcher
    Apr 26, 2016 at 21:17
  • I'm trying to do something similar with queries...but ran into a glitch... if you try to use this syntax in the Result Sources queries... it looks like things break... I think because by default, when you build the query there, it slaps on the -ContentClass=urn:content-class:SPSPeople to the end of the query string, no matter how you type things in... have you seen that before...or know a fix?
    – Carp
    Jun 15, 2016 at 15:29
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If you set the Query Transform like, it will not load the results on page load.

{?{searchTerms} Path:https://my.sharepoint.com/sitename/Shared%20Documents}
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  • Same for me! any idea how to get this working with the "?"
    – Murtuza Husain
    Jan 9, 2019 at 15:37
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Still relevant with SP 2019 On-Prem
The filter by Content Type worked with this wrapper

    {? ContentTypeId:0x01001E2AEAE841DFF045A38B3ED40E0C46C7* {searchTerms} 
    (contentclass:STS_ListItem OR IsDocument:True)}
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