SharePoint Search integration

Users rely on Google's famous answer boxes for most casual queries, such as the weather forecast or answers aggregated from the top results. With this channel, you can add a similar experience to your SharePoint intranet.

We call them Answer Cards, because they are made using Adaptive Cards. And it can have a transformative effect on your SharePoint search experience:

• Create your own Adaptive Cards with live data from 3rd party apps, for example by starting off with a template

• Teach the built-in AI to recognize natural language commands users might say when they would like to see your Card

• Find all your Adaptive Cards with the Answer Card web part for SharePoint that lets you enter natural full-length questions or short commands

• Build a bank of QnA knowledge with Digital Assistant that can give further answers to SharePoint users, for example for FAQs

Combine Adaptive Cards with PnP Modern Search

See an Answer Card in-between the PnP Search box and PnP Search Results

Built as an open-source SharePoint extension that's maintained by Microsoft, PnP Modern Search is a popular replacement for SharePoint's built-in more limited search experience. It offers more granular search UI options, for example extra refiners, search suggestions and control over how results are displayed.

If you already use PnP Modern Search, the Answer Card web part can be switched into a PnP mode where it receives the search input directly from PnP's search bar.

This effectively makes the web part an additional improvement to search pages previously made with PnP Modern Search. The best thing is, if the Answer Card web part doesn't find a suitable Card to show the user, it stays completely hidden.