I have a site which has existing for many years ...everything is working fine.
Quite recently users started reported that certain items do not show up in their search results.
even though these items do not have any custom permissions. Also all users have same permissions.. (every user belongs to the same SP Group)
Yet!! the item does not appear in search results of some people.
In order to test this, I created a new AD Account and added it to the same SP Group. Now I can browse the site and all its content using browser.
but when I search... the test account sees no results what-so-ever "no results were found for foo"
So this is very funny.
1. UserA belongs to group A and sees everything in search results
2. UserB belongs to group A and sees partial test results
3. TestA belongs to group A and sees nothing
We do not break inheritance anywhere and all items inherit their permissions from site. In advanced version settings, we say "anyone who can READ the items. "
what could be going wrong?
1. why does test account see nothing in search results?
2. why do some people do not see certain items?