Restrict kql search query to specific div in a page

[matt howell]

I'm using PnP modern search web parts but the question applies to Sharepoint search in general. I'm restricting my search to published news posts but on the new post pages, there's a "recent posts" news web part so search includes content from that web part. As an example I have posts titled "post a" and "post b". If I search for "a"  I get both posts returned because search find the "b" in the news web part.   Is there a way to refine the search query to only look at the "canvascontent" field ie the body  of the post, excluding other web parts on the page? Something like:

{searchTerms} Path: "https://xxx.sharepoint.com/sites/xxx/SitePages" RefinableString01:xxx PromotedState:2 FIELD:CANVASCONTENT

[#2 · Accepted solution]

Hello @matt howell 

to restrict the query for a specific field only, you can use {searchTerms} in your query.

Here is an example:

contentclass:STS_ListItem_WebPageLibrary IsContainer<>true RefinableString101:{searchTerms}

I have mapped the crawled property ows_CanvasContent1 to a managed property RefinableString101:

contentclass and iscontainer are only additional parameter to specific search for pages, without template folder. You can define them according to your choice.

Hope this helps.

Regards, Dave

[#3]

@David Mehr Thanks, this worked great!

Path: https://xxx.sharepoint.com/sites/xxx/SitePages PromotedState:2 contentclass:STS_ListItem_WebPageLibrary IsContainer<>true RefinableString09:{searchTerms} -ContentClass=urn:content-class:SPSPeople