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SharePoint Online Modern Experience Search || Custom Site Column to Crawled Properties Issue
Hi Oliver,
The issue that I had regarding no crawled properties was a general Search issue in Office365/SharePoint online. Microsoft has recently fixed the issue, so it should work. (and it works for me now..)
As was already mentioned, make sure you have all contenttypes & sitecolumns provisioned in the right way. Your crawled/managed properties should appear within an hour.
Make sure that you reindex the list/library/site after you change your schema. This will force a full crawl.
Good luck!
Hi Ernst, Thanks a lot for your quick and helpfull answer! Unfortunately it is not working in my tenant.
I have setup a new website column, added it to a newly created content type, added that content type to the Document Lib, created an item which belongs to the newly creatd content type and added a value to the new field. Did the reindex library task and ... nothing apperas in SPO SearchCenter. I have checked it with the Search Query Tool (V2.8.2) and was able to see the automatic created managed property on the returned search result.
Any thoughts what I am missing?
Sorry to hear that.
Quick thoughts:
- In the Search Query Tool: is the property filled with a value?
- Is the item already crawled? Can you find it by plain text search for content?
- Important: Can you see a matching crawled and/or managed property in Central Admin?
- Remember that a lookup field doesn't get a managed property automatically- Hidden fields are not crawled
Hi Ernst, Thanks for your thoughts!
- The property is filled with the expected value in the Search Query Tool
- This (managed) property is NOT visible in the SPO SearchCenter
- The item must be crawled, since i can find it using the modern plain text search
- It is a simple text field which is not hidden
- I have also created it manually and with PNP-Powershell - Both ways are not successfull (by that i mean no crawled property is shown in the SPO SearchCenter).
I think these properties are available, but hidden, since they are coming from a modern teamsite which only uses the modern search experience.
I'm currently working with Modern Pages, inherited from Site Pages and I added extra sitecolumns to that contenttype. Works for me, so it all should work in Modern Sites / Pages.
My custom fields show up in the Managed Properties / Crawled Properties in the Search section of the SharePoint Admin Center (<tenant>-admin.sharepoint.com).
This is not the same as SearchCenter...