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Jille Floridor
Jun 17, 2019Brass Contributor
No search results in big document library
Hi all I have a document library in which we uploaded an archive of some 50000 PDF documents. When searching on a document name, we get no results. Reading the documentation, I understand tha...
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Jun 17, 2019Brass Contributor
Jille Floridor
Do the original PDF files contain a title? If so, using a tool that extracts the title from each PDF file and fills the title column.
Can you split the set of documents into smaller parts (e.g. by calendar year) and use folders?
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Jille Floridor
Jun 17, 2019Brass Contributor
the PDF files do not contain a title, they only have a filename. I think I'll go ahead and create a flow for filling extra columns based on file name, but it seems strange that filename cannot be indexed in SharePoint.
- Jille FloridorJun 18, 2019Brass Contributor
Hi all
just an update on this.
We created and ran a flow that fills the title colum and re-indexed the site, but alas, no search results.
What does work, is the ability to filter on the column values in the filter pane.