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Tyler Bankston
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Dec 13, 2017

Communication Site - Highlighted Content > Pages > Managed Property Empty

We are building a communication site and using the Highlighted Content web part. We have built our own content type of "HP Site Page" with the Site Page parent. We have created 2 custom columns calle...
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JHerschel
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Jun 20, 2018

The Site Columns you created, can they be choice? or do they NEED to be managed metadata.  I am not seeing them as well in my dropdown, probably need for search index to complete...thanks

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Susan_Hanley
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Jun 20, 2018

If you make them Choice columns, you will need to map them to an existing managed property. If you use managed metadata, you won't need to do that.

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    JHerschel
    Iron Contributor
    Jun 20, 2018

    Thanks.  I must be missing something...

     

    I created a 1) Site Choice Column, 2) a Site Managed Metadata column, as well as a 3) choice column to the Site Pages list and I have a grayed out Managed Property Name (same as Tyler Bankston) when I tried to filter by Managed Property in the Highlighted Content webpart.  I waited 6 hours, so I don't think its due to the site not being crawled/indexed...

    If I go to Site Settings > Site Collection Admin > Search Schema, I cannot find the any of the columns I created to 'map them to an available managed property in the search schema'.

    I also did the following:

    • add values to those columns in the Site Pages
    • went into the List Settings > advanced settings > re-index this list
    • The pages are published
    • I am a site collection administrator

    Do I need to use new content types?  Can I just use the Page Content type?

    I followed the ppt slide pages 41-44 to try to map any of the columns I created, but cannot see them when I go to the Search Schema page. 

     

     

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        JHerschel
        Iron Contributor
        Jun 21, 2018

        Thank you Devendra Velegandla.  Everything started working this morning and per your post, a few other users who had search issues said it was resolved for them, so I believe my issue was related ad I was not able to filter to find my column (mapping properties) and my drop down was grayed out even when I put something in the text box above...so maybe those were reliant on Search?

         

        Thank you Susan_Hanley as your posts/powerpoint helped me with what were trying to accomplish and will be great if we set up an audience targeted column for news...

        Thanks!

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      Devendra Velegandla
      Brass Contributor
      Jun 21, 2018

      JHerschel You can try to force a full index using below PS script which might help to show the crawled properties https://www.techmikael.com/2014/02/how-to-trigger-full-re-index-in.htmlre-indexhttps://www.techmikael.com/2014/02/how-to-trigger-full-re-index-in.html

       

       

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      Susan_Hanley
      MVP
      Jun 20, 2018

      Did you also use the values and assign them to existing pages? Nothing will appear unless you have actually used the properties and assigned them to existing pages. The content type doesn't matter. There is currently an issue with indexing so it could be that this same issue is causing your content not to show up - but you need to use the columns first.

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        JHerschel
        Iron Contributor
        Jun 21, 2018

        NEVERMIND!!! I see the columns showing up when I try to map a property this am.  For some reason, the past few days, when I go to Map property, and look for columns I created to map, they were not in the list...wonder if Search is related?  that must have been the missing piece...stay tuned

         

         

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