How do I use refinable managed properties in SharePoint?

How do I use refinable managed properties in SharePoint?

When you’ve mapped all the refinable managed properties that you want to use, you have to do a reindexing of your list or library. For information on how to do that, see How to create a Search Center Site Collection and enable crawling of your content in SharePoint Server. By default, the Refinement Web Part is included on the search results page.

Can managed metadata be used as a refiner?

Yes, Managed Metadata is supported as a refiner. If you notice, there will 2 crawled properties created, namely ows_Departmentsand ows_taxId_Departments. The ows_Departmentsproperty contains all property values that the crawler finds, namely actual department values.

What are the benefits of managed metadata in SharePoint?

Benefits of managed metadata 1 Consistent use of metadata. The managed metadata features in SharePoint products enable you to control how users add metadata to content. 2 Improved content discoverability. 3 Metadata navigation for sites. 4 Metadata navigation for lists and libraries. 5 Increased flexibility.

What is refinement data in a search engine?

These features let the end user drill down into search results by using refinement data computed for the results. Refinement data is calculated by the index component, based on the aggregation of managed property statistics for all of the results of a search query.

How do I remove refiners from the search results page?

On the search results page, click the Settings menu, and then click Edit Page. In the Refinement Web Part, click the Web Part Menu, and then click Edit Web Part. In the Web Part tool pane, click Choose Refiners. In the Selected refiners section, select the refiners that you don’t want to display on your search results page, and then click Remove.

How to enable users to select multiple refiner values from a preview?

To enable users to select multiple refiner values, from the Display template menu, select Multi-value Refinement Item. We clicked Preview refiners again, and verified that the ContentType refiner (RefinableString04) was displayed first, and that it had check boxes that would enable users to select multiple refiner values.

How do I map a crawl to a refinable managed property?

In the Crawled property selection dialog, use the Search for crawled property name field to search for the crawled property that you want to map to this refinable managed property. In our scenario, we knew we wanted to use the site column called Internal Writer .

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