Here’' I’ll show a solution which can load up to whatever limit is set at the SSA or tenant (which by default is 500) on the initial load of the CSWP. I will use the same approach as I did when configuring the OSSSearchResults.aspx page in How to do a light weight search center using osssearchresults.aspx (part 2/3).
The limit of 50 is hard coded in the CSWP server side – see my original post for details.
First I’ll set the CSWP to show 42 items. I use the magic number 42 as a trigger to know when to load 500.
This means if you have multiple CSWP’s on a page, only the ones set to 42 will be expanded to 500. (The other way to identify a CSWP is to set the Alternate Error Message field, and use that as your id.)
Next up click Change query to launch the query builder, pick the Settings tab, and check the Async option.
Now the CSWP is primed for action. All you need is to add some script to your page. You can either add this in a script web part, attach via pagelayout/master page, or hook it up as a custom user action on the page. Any thing goes as long as the script is on the page before search is triggered.
You can find the complete script at my github repo, which includes register of the changeMaxResults function in the page lifecycle.
// Author: Mikael Svenson - @mikaelsvenson // techmikael.blogspot.com "use strict"; (function () { function changeMaxResults() { var magicNumber = 42; var newMax = 500; ExecuteOrDelayUntilBodyLoaded(function () { SP.SOD.executeFunc("search.clientcontrols.js", "Srch.ScriptApplicationManager", function () { var scriptManager = Srch.ScriptApplicationManager.get_current(); for (var queryGroupName in scriptManager.queryGroups) { var queryGroup = scriptManager.queryGroups[queryGroupName]; if (queryGroup.dataProvider) { var currentCount = queryGroup.dataProvider.get_resultsPerPage(); if (currentCount === magicNumber) { queryGroup.dataProvider.set_resultsPerPage(newMax); // set the query to retreive 500 items per page var searchControls = queryGroup.displays; for (var i = 0; i < searchControls.length; i++) { if (searchControls[i] instanceof Srch.ContentBySearch) { searchControls[i].set_numberOfItems(newMax); // set CSWP to show 500 items per page break; } } } } } }); }); } }());
Here’s a zoomed out screenshot to illustrate that you get more than 50.