Use Search Banner to help employees find Forms and Templates right at the top of the page.
To use this banner add this app to any of your SharePoint sections:
Configuring search
When you first add the Search Banner, go to web part properties and click on the button titled Add/Remove Source Libraries as shown below:
Now, you can set one or more libraries from current or another site, like this
Users must have access to the site which you’ve picked to pull data from.
If your libraries have folders, they will show up below the search box like this:
You can add files directly to the root of the chosen document library or to the corresponding folder.
Search Banner will automatically pick up files for your employees to find.
Styling your banner
You can chose what welcome message shows up in the banner by setting Banner Heading web part property:
To set the searchbox placeholder text, change the Searchbox Prompt web part property:
To change the background color or a gradient, update the properties below:
You can resize the height of the banner by changing the Banner Height web part property:
You can change the background and the height of the banner along with colors of category buttons like this:
Do you have more than 5,000 documents in your library?
Due to limits in SharePoint Online, if you have more than 5,000 items in your document library you’ll have to split them in separate libraries for the Search Banner to pick them up.