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Myles Gallagher
Brass Contributor
May 09, 2018

Searching for SharePoint Modern Pages

I was looking at using a sharepoint site as a collaborative "wiki" style best practices/knowledge site (not using the old wiki system, because old sharepoint is on its way out) by encouraging editing.  After some fiddling, it doesn't appear that search is very sensible for these pages, nor is there any way to "tag" or attach any useful labels/metadata to them to aid in searching/filtering.  Search also doesn't seem to make any sense for them, and looks to only return results where words in either the title or url match(or maybe even some other unseen data).

 

Is there something I am missing here? Or are modern pages really not usefully searchable?

Modern Site Page
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  • Anonymous's avatar
    Anonymous
    May 09, 2018

    Did you try to use enterprise keywords column to tag your pages. Create a managed property and map it to crawled property keywords. Also for filtering pages based on keywords use highlighted content webpart and use managed property.

    • Myles Gallagher's avatar
      Myles Gallagher
      Brass Contributor
      May 09, 2018
      Should I then create a content type that is inherited from the site page content type, but including this new property/column?
      • Anonymous's avatar
        Anonymous
        May 09, 2018

        You could just go to Site Pages or any other library where you create all your wiki pages and add enterprise keywords column.

        1. click Library settings 

        2. In the Permissions and Management column, click Enterprise Metadata and Keyword Settings.

        3. On the settings page, in the Add Enterprise Keywords section, select the check box for Add an Enterprise Keywords column to this list and enable Keyword Synchronization.

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