Hiding Types and Objects from the Homepage Search

each customer uses ad and activate differently — for example, some may rely heavily on ad contacts, while others may not use them at all to hide ad contacts or other object types from appearing in the home page search, follow these steps steps open {{activateadministrator}} navigate to resources > configuration > search locate the defaultcategories parameter and remove "cont" from the comma separated list if the parameter doesn’t exist, create it with a type of string the default value is serv,artl,grpr,dlgs,task,fold,wsit,wlst,wgrp,role,user,comp,cont,mbrs this includes all object types in the search restart iis for a consistent user experience, you may also want to edit homepage1 under resources > configuration > web and remove the searchselectitem for contacts (or other excluded objects) from the search dropdown list