Once upon a time (before SharePoint Modern mode, circa 2016) we were able to create
custom display templates for search
results. This was a great option when your search query was returning a
specific Content Type and you could display the various fields in a way that
fit the content e.g. showing a red traffic light for expired content.
However when SharePoint Modern appeared on our tenants Microsoft decided not to
provide any option to customize the out of the box search, a decision that is
hard to understand.
Luckily for Microsoft and us the
M365 Community rose to the challenge and the PnP Modern Web Parts
project was born.
As of today, you can add
additional MS Search Vertical on the Site and Tenant level, and we can only
hope that one day we will be able to assign an Audience to a Vertical in order
to ensure the relevancy for the end user. (hint hint)
And NOW (public preview late Dec 22
and complete mid Jan 23) we can create custom item display templates in the shape
of Result types with associated Adaptive Cards:
Please note that the Rules is using
KQL so all the old queries you have been using for years still works !!!
And the skill set required for beautiful
looking Adaptive Cards is on my wish list for X-mas but at least I can cheat
and learn from the masters at https://github.com/pnp/AdaptiveCards-Templates
(Hey it works 😊 )
