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Jim Duncan
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Jun 29, 2017

Site Classification value in SharePoint Search

Does anyone know if the Group/Site Classification value for a site is available as a Crawled and/or Managed Property so that I can use it to build a search-driven experience based on site classificat...
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Mikael Svenson's avatar
Mikael Svenson
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Jun 29, 2017
Not available last time I checked. Classification is stored on the Groups graph object and not on the SP site. So you could copy it over as an indexable prop bag value, but would be a sync job on your part. Might be better to query the MS graph instead of using SP search.
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    Jim Duncan
    Iron Contributor
    Jul 06, 2017

    Thanks, Mikael Svenson and jcgonzalezmartin.

     

    I would really like to keep this as a Search-based solution as it has worked for us to this point.

    The overall experience allows us to have a single page for internal and external users that provides quick access to the site(s) which the user has permission to access (in the case of External users, they only get one result).

     

    From what I can tell, the classification value is available to CSOM as the Site.Classification property. Is this populated from the Graph at runtime or is it an actual property on the Site object? If the latter, can it not be picked up by the Crawler so that we can map it to a Managed Property?

     

    I wonder if VesaJuvonen has any input...

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      Mikael Svenson
      Iron Contributor
      Jul 06, 2017

      I just noticed the Site.Classification myself, and saw this on the new Comm sites. And I agree it would be useful to have it exposed in search somehow - preferably without having to fix it yourself.

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