Crawl For Search Service in SharePoint 2013

When I have a search for recent content in a SharePoint site it's not showing.



Step 1

Go to SharePoint 2013 Central Administration.

Click the Start menu then click Microsoft SharePoint 2013 Products then click SharePoint 2013 Central Administration.

Step 2

Click Manage service applications under Application Management.



Step 3

Click your Search Service Application.



Step 4

The following screen will appear.



Step 5

Click Content sources under Crawling.



Step 6

Manage Content Sources as as in the following.



Step 7

Click Local SharePoint Sites from Name Selection. Check your site collection under the Start Addresses section.



Step 8

Click the OK button.



Step 9

Click the drop down option in the Local SharePoint sites item and click Start Full Crawl for your SharePoint site.



Step 10

Click OK to continue.



Your Crawl has begun. Click the Refresh button.



Once refreshed your status will change to Crawling Full.





Once your crawl finishes the status will change to the Idle state.



Step 11

After the crawl completes go to your SharePoint site and search the content. Your latest search contents will show.



Summary

In this article we saw how to crawl for a SharePoint 2013 search service.