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Display Site Pages Similar to Doc Library
Hello Ukiman1014
the control and setting in the highlighted content web part are limited.
For a fully customized web part view, i recommend the PnP Modern Search Web Parts. In there, you can customize the query, sort and visualization from your web parts.
Here are more information: https://microsoft-search.github.io/pnp-modern-search/
Regards, Dave
Hello Ukiman1014
good to hear. You have more guidance in the scenario tutorial: https://microsoft-search.github.io/pnp-modern-search/scenarios/
When it not help, come back here, we will try to help you 😉
Regards, Dave
DaveMehr365 I am struggling a bit right off the bat. I have an existing "Category" column in my Site Pages. I only want PnP Search to display a list of pages with a specific category. In the https://microsoft-search.github.io/pnp-modern-search/scenarios/set-up-managed-properties/ it says that in order for anything to be filtered by the search, it must be a managed property. The column was originally just created by clicking "Add New", not going to Site Columns and clicking "Create", as stated in the instructions. So it seems that I need to create a new column as per the instructions and then go through and set that column to match the values of my original column. Is that correct?
It seems strange to me that columns created in the usual manner aren't available to search, because they're not considered Managed Properties. Am I missing something?
Hi Ukiman1014
every column, site and list, will be crawled as "Crawled Property", but only site columns will be automatically added to "Managed Properties". For your list column a Crawled Property is created, but not a Managed Property.
If necessary, you can set the managed properties so that the properties are available as a refinement, can be used in the queries, etc.
In your case
Map your list column to an existing RefinableStringXX property, after that you can use your mapped RefinableStringXX in your search. In the default RefinableStringXX properies are the settings active, to use it in search scenarios.
I prefer
1. use site columns - with a unique prefix, and withoud spaces or special characters
2. use sharepoint search admin center for search administrations (it's also possible to do it on site level, but in big environments it can become confusing)
Hope this helps.
Best, Dave
DaveMehr365, I have this working pretty well, but I'm running into an issue that might be a limitation.
There is a repository of site pages that I need to display in the order of a date field, "Date Published", which I created and made a managed property. (I can't sort by the built-in date created or modified fields, or I would have just used the highlighted content web part.)
I can't seem to get PnP Search Results to sort by that field. I can see the field, "DatePublishedOWSDATE", in the list of fields to filter, but it doesn't display in the list of fields for sorting. I've tried to manually enter it in, including the managed property it's mapped to, "RefinableDate00", but that gives an error.
Is there some special way to get it to sort by a managed property date field? Or is sorting only limited to RefinableString fields? If so, how can I sort by a custom date field? Basically, the page is a copy of the contents of a weekly newsletter, so the "Date Published" field is when the content was originally sent out, not when the page was created.