searching in subsites

[theprowler]

Hi,
I've got a simple question: is it possible to search a document in a subsite? If yes, how?

Or search works only in the current site you are?

I'm trying to find documents (and other stuff) in subsites of a parent site but search doesn't return any result. It works fine when i search documents that belong to the current site instead.

Please help!

P.S. I'm using Sharepoint Portal Server 2003

Thanks

 

[Thomas2000]

Hello,

Yes with SPS it is possible to search for documents in a subsite. But you need to have access to those subsites aswell, search results will only be shown from the sites that you have access to.

But if you are at a WSS subsite and do a search I beleive it is using the simple search and only searches the specific subsite, but once the query has been executed and you are at the serach result page you should be able to see a link that looks something like Search "yourword" on "your portal name"

Did I make any sense? I just got back from a 3 weeks vacation and is not yet in "working mode"

Regards,
Thomas

 

[ChaserNL]

I all ready feared u left us Thomas. its good to have u back, how was you vacation?

Greetings

 

[theprowler]

Exactly Thomas, seems sharepoint uses the "simple search" like you said to search only in the current subsite.

I can also search from the portal because i'm an administrator but other users can't.

Thanks for the reply.