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PNP Modern Search People - Show Department/Office as filter
Hi all,
We're using the PnP Modern Search, and I can't for the life of me get Department to show as a filter.
I have tried adding ows_Department, Department, BaseOfficeLocation, anything really to filters, and it just wont get through..
Also tried adding ows_Department as Refinablestring02, but still no luck. My users do have an attribute but I can't for the life of me target it. If I go to Sharepoint > Search > People > Type in any location they do appear as I'd like them.
How do I find out which attribute is presented as Department in my tenant?
For that managed property is the OfficeNumber If you want to get only value but you can't use it for refiners.
You have to map "People:Office" crawled property to any RefinableString*** managed property and then you could use it in refiners.
Important: It might take some time to fill RefinableString managed property which you use for existing user profile (According to my past experience it took 2 days !!!).
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You can try below default Managed Properties which worked fine for me
It will show values from below mentioned OOTB user profile properties so make sure these property contains values.
Another thing, above mentioned property would not able available as suggestion in Filter Field drop down but as it's combo box still you can enter it manually as shown below
Below is the output of search result
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kalpeshvaghela Thanks for your reply! Yes I have tried these but will give it another spin.
Where is this screenshot from? I can't seem to find a similar one in my console.Screen shot is from SharePoint User Profile and follow below steps to open it
Open your SharePoint Admin Center using URL https://{TenantName}-Admin.SharePoint.com
Go to More Feature and Click on User Profile
Click and User Profile and Search for any user
Click on Edit Profile Property and the screen shot which I shared it taken from here.
