Improved search experience in Dynamics 365 / PowerApps

To enable the new search experience, we need to turn on the relevance search on that environment.

Login to the admin portal and environments section

https://admin.powerplatform.microsoft.com/environments

Navigate to Settings -> Features and turn on the Relevance Search

This places the search bar in the header, making it easy to access while navigating across different pages.

With Relevance search turned off à

On clicking the search icon à we are navigated to the categorized search page.

The search result for the term “alex” with Relevance Search on–

Even before we can enter our query in the search box, the search box displays the recent terms (seems like max 3) used for search along with recent records (seems like max 6) accessed.

Provides increment search or real-time suggestions while we are tying the search term

Get all the details here

And must-read article on the new search experience à

https://jukkaniiranen.com/2020/11/make-your-power-apps-search-experience-more-relevant/

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