Rajeev Pentyala – Technical Blog on Power Platform, Azure and AI

Other day, we got a requirement to hide the ‘Search’ control from our Custom portal.

Its very easy to achieve by changing a configuration.

Steps to hide Search control:

• Go to Portals ->Site Settings ->Search/Enabled record
• By default the ‘Value’ will be ‘true’, to hide the ‘Search’ change to ‘false’

• Save
• Refresh the browser and you should not see the ‘Search’ control

What if you are still seeing the ‘Search’ control:

Sometimes for some reason (Mostly due to caching), you wont see the change immediately.

In this case you can either reset portal/clear the server side cache by following steps below.

Reset the Portal:

• If the change is not taken place for all users you might want to reset the portal.
• Resetting the portal is not feasible option especially when your portal is being tested, as the end users will experience a snag for sometime.
• But if the Portal is in Development phase and you can reset from your ‘D365 Admin Center’
  • Go to ‘Admin Center’ -> Applications
  • Select your Portal application and click ‘Manage’

• Select ‘Portal Actions’ -> Reset

Clear Server Side Cache:

• You can force the portal to refresh its cache immediately.
• To clear the server-side cache, sign in to the portal with Administrator web role
• Navigate to the URL as follows : <Your_portal_URL>/_services/about
  • (i.e., You need to append /_services/about end of your portal URL)
• Select Clear Cache.
• Refer this for article more details

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