One of the things that I always tell people when talking about search is to make sure that you expose your custom properties for search.
By custom properties I am referring to any of the following:
- Fields in lists (particularly fields that have been created specifically for the organization)
- Custom metadata attached to documents
- Custom content types
If you look in this blog you see the steps necessary to take crawled properties and map them to managed properties, thereby exposing them to be used in search.
What you can do by creating Managed Properties is:
- Expose them for advanced search: Allow users to specify these properties as parameters to searches.
- Create Scopes: Create scopes from these managed properties
- Display in Search Results: Display in results of searches
- Alter relevancy ranking: Change the weighting of how much the property influences end results.
Im going to be talking a lot about Managed Properties so stay tuned!
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