Can I change the local search settings on my SharePoint site? #M365AMA

In this episode, the #M365AMA panel discusses the following community question:

“Back in Classic SharePoint on my tenant, I was able to ask the search to look for a specific author, and it looks like in modern my search doesn’t allow that. I’m not the tenant admin. I’m wondering two things. Any chance I can change the local search settings on a specific site to enable to search for created by/modified by? Can I write a flow that checks every library in a site for a person who modified or created a document?”

Check out the discussion here:

 

Participating in this discussion were:

• Christian Buckley, RD+MVP @buckleyplanet 
• Shari Oswald, MVP+MCT @shortcutshari
• Kirsty McGrath, MVP @KirstyMcGrath13
• Sharon Weaver, RD+MVP+MCT @sharoneweaver
• Sean McDonough, MVP @spmcdonough 
• Jonathan Weaver, MVP  @j_weaver74

Some relevant notes/links shared by the team:

• For the first part of this question, you can use a KQL query: Author:<yourNameHere> orModifiedBy:<yourNameHere>
• Differences between the classic and modern search experiences in SharePoint, via Microsoft Learn [https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/sharepoint/differences-classic-modern-search]
• If you have any search questions, do what we all do – we ask Agnes 😉 [https://searchexplained.com/]