Hello everyone, today we discuss about SharePoint search functionality, different way to search a files and tricks about searching. So lets starts…
Search is one of the core feature of Office 365 or SharePoint online 2013. In SharePoint search be perform across multiple sites for quickly access things.
In SharePoint 2013 search functionality can be customized in different ways.
There are numerous other changes to Search in SharePoint 2013 are:
- Query Rules
- Result Types
- Result Sources
- Site Collection Search Schema
- List or Library on demand full crawl
Tricks for rapid Searching
Here we discuss about some cool searching tricks for bulk search result.
- Keyword Query Language query :
A KQL query contain two things:
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Free text-keywords—words or phrases
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Property restrictions
You can combine KQL query elements with one or more (OR, AND,NOT) of the available operators.
If the KQL query contains only operators or is empty, it isn’t valid. KQL queries are case-insensitive but the operators are case-sensitive (uppercase).
Table 1. Valid property restriction syntax
Syntax Returns author:”Will Smith” Returns content items authored by Will Smith. filetype:docx Returns Microsoft Word documents. filetype eq: pdf, ppt, mp4, audio, video files etc filename:book.xlsx Returns content items with the file name book.xlsx. title:’Test’ Returns content with the title name Test. -
- Search with operator Ex: author:”Will Smith” OR author:”Ron Smith” Here search result gives both authors result
- Wildcard search: Another cool feature for searching is wildcard search with ‘ * ‘ operator. Suppose you have to search all videos which start from ‘develop’. So here we start with few letter of word ‘dev*’
You need to add asterisk (wildcard character) after the first few letters, not before. For example, dev*, not *dev
For more info read my article based on SharePoint searching
- Sample search term query’s of result search web part
- How to create custom result type in SharePoint 2013?
Reference:
MS Search KQL Query
