Overview
Creating managed properties (post to come, stay tuned) can be rather cumbersome work, especially if you are adding many of them.
There is, however, a way that you can by pass a lot of the work by getting SharePoint to create a managed property each time it finds a new crawled property.
- Go to the Shared Services Provider that is hosting the search server (by default it will be called ‘SharedServices1′
- Then go to Search Settings and then Metadata Properties
- Click on Crawled Properties then the SharePoint category and finally Edit Category and you should be presented with the screen below.
Crawled Property Configuration Screen
In order to create Managed Properties automatically simply check the box “Automatically genereated a new managed property for each crawled property in this category” and away you go.
Caveat
Unfortunately the names that SharePoint creates for the managed properties are not all that friendly.
SharePoint crawled properties are prefixed with an “ows_” and the auto generated managed property is prefixed with “ows”. For example, if a user creates a new column in a document library called “OrderStatus” then the crawled property will be “ows_OrderStatus” and the managed property will be “owsOrderStatus”.
Things get even worse if the crawled property has a space in it. So if you have a column called “Order Status” (with a space), then the corressponding crawled property will be “ows_Order_x0020_Status” and the managed property will be assigned the name “owsOrderx0020Status” – not that great at all. But you can always change the name of the managed property so its not a complete waste of time…
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