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Sep 04, 2022

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Keyword Search in SharePoint 2016/Online

Hello, I want to key word search in office document in SharePoint 2016 or SharePoint Online. I tried following code, but it is searching from all the site collections instead of site which I giv...

Sep 06, 2022

Here is the updated script:

$SiteURL ="https://contoso.sharepoint.com/sites/KeywordSearch1/"

$keyword="(('Keyword 1') OR ('Keyword 2')) PATH:$SiteUrl"

$currentTime=$(get-date).ToString("yyyyMMddHH");
$outputFilePath="D:\Kalpesh\Scripts\results-"+$currentTime+".csv"

## Connect to SharePoint Online site
 Connect-PnPOnline -Url $SiteURL -UseWebLogin
 Write-Host "Site connected sucessfully" -ForegroundColor Green
## Executes an arbitrary search query against the SharePoint search


#$results=Submit-PnPSearchQuery -Query $keyword  -All -TrimDuplicates $False // here it will export 10 items in search result
$results = Submit-PnPSearchQuery -Query $keyword -All -TrimDuplicates:$false -SelectProperties @("Path","SPWebUrl","UrlDepth","Filename")
 
## Get the results in the hash table
$hashTable=@()
foreach($resultRow in $results.ResultRows)
{
    $obj=New-Object PSObject
    $resultRow.GetEnumerator()| ForEach-Object{ $obj | Add-Member Noteproperty $_.Key $_.Value}
    $hashTable+=$obj;
    $obj=$null;
}

## Export to CSV
$hashtable | export-csv $outputFilePath -NoTypeInformation -Force
 Write-Host "Result exported sucessfully" -ForegroundColor Yellow

You can use multiple key word in query like "(("Keyword 1") OR ("Keyword 2")) and so on". Reference link: https://social.msdn.microsoft.com/Forums/office/en-US/da8ffae4-e715-4a35-bdc7-5c598ac1e057/how-can-i-search-multiple-keywords-with-space-in-sharepoint-2010-?forum=sharepointdevelopmentprevious

Even if we provide SelectedProperties in command, few fixed column's value will return anyway e.g. DocId, Rank, SiteId. You can update your loop where you are preparing hash table to remove those columns from csv.

Regarding Document Library path, as per my knowledge there no managed property or crawled property which can give document library path, here you need to do some string operation using UrlDepth (which is the depth of the URL i.e. split URL by "/") and SPWebUrl values.

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Iron Contributor

Sep 05, 2022

Hello Kalpeshvaghela

Thank you very much!!

It is working for filename, but not working for contents. I want to do search in Word and Excel files.
Secondly I need only SharePoint Site, DOcumentlibrary path and filename.

I also noticed that If I used following , it is throwing error.

$results=Submit-PnPSearchQuery -Query $keyword  -All -TrimDuplicates $False

How to search mutiple keyword in excel or word documents?

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kalpeshvaghela

Iron Contributor

Sep 06, 2022

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Here is the updated script:

$SiteURL ="https://contoso.sharepoint.com/sites/KeywordSearch1/"

$keyword="(('Keyword 1') OR ('Keyword 2')) PATH:$SiteUrl"

$currentTime=$(get-date).ToString("yyyyMMddHH");
$outputFilePath="D:\Kalpesh\Scripts\results-"+$currentTime+".csv"

## Connect to SharePoint Online site
 Connect-PnPOnline -Url $SiteURL -UseWebLogin
 Write-Host "Site connected sucessfully" -ForegroundColor Green
## Executes an arbitrary search query against the SharePoint search


#$results=Submit-PnPSearchQuery -Query $keyword  -All -TrimDuplicates $False // here it will export 10 items in search result
$results = Submit-PnPSearchQuery -Query $keyword -All -TrimDuplicates:$false -SelectProperties @("Path","SPWebUrl","UrlDepth","Filename")
 
## Get the results in the hash table
$hashTable=@()
foreach($resultRow in $results.ResultRows)
{
    $obj=New-Object PSObject
    $resultRow.GetEnumerator()| ForEach-Object{ $obj | Add-Member Noteproperty $_.Key $_.Value}
    $hashTable+=$obj;
    $obj=$null;
}

## Export to CSV
$hashtable | export-csv $outputFilePath -NoTypeInformation -Force
 Write-Host "Result exported sucessfully" -ForegroundColor Yellow

Hope it will helpful to you and if so then Please mark my response as Best Response & Like to help others in this community

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Iron Contributor
Sep 06, 2022
Hello Kalpeshvaghela,

Thank you very much. It is working like charm.

I also tried to search like below to filter on *.xlxs with some keyword, it is not working. AM I missing anything
$keyword="(('microsoft') OR ('*.xlsx')) PATH:$SiteUrl"

Is there any url, where I can see what else property are available to add in search result
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- kalpeshvaghela
  Iron Contributor
  Sep 06, 2022
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  If you want to find out document using OR condition then below should be query which will return all the document where "Keyword 1" and "Keyword 2" word is there in content and also return all the excel document irrespective of content of the document
  
  $keyword="(('Keyword 1') OR ('Keyword 2') OR (FileExtension:'xslx')) PATH:$SiteUrl"
  
  If you want to find out document using AND condition then below should be query which will return only excel document where "Keyword 1" and "Keyword 2" word is there in content
  
  $keyword="(('Keyword 1') OR ('Keyword 2')) AND (PATH:$SiteUrl) AND (FileExtension=xlsx)"
  
  Hope it will helpful to you and if so then Please mark my response as Best Response & Like to help others in this community
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    Iron Contributor
    Sep 06, 2022
    Thanks.
    
    Last question I asked earlier also
    Is there any url or article, where I can see what else property are available to add in search result or where I can learn to pass keyword ?
    
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