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How to add multiple aliases to a Managed Property in SharePoint Search?

This article explains how to add multiple aliases to one managed property in SharePoint Search Schema Management. Yes, it’s possible, just a bit unintuitive! I’ll explain the process below. Solution This seems to be another “gotcha”, that’s missing from the official documentation, but is super helpful to know when you…Continue reading How to add multiple aliases to a Managed Property in SharePoint Search?

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How to interpret SharePoint’s view count managed properties (like “ViewsLast1Days”)?

Have you ever wondered, how SharePoint’s Managed Properties for Usage & Analytics info actually work? There are all these nice properties available for getting view counts for different items in SharePoint’s search index, but they all seem to act like crazy. Plus they are sometimes pretty nonsensical… And not very…Continue reading How to interpret SharePoint’s view count managed properties (like “ViewsLast1Days”)?

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Using “DetectedLanguage” to return only localized results from SharePoint Search index

Localization and targeting of content in multilingual SharePoint installations is always an issue. SharePoint offers a multitude of ways to profile content based on user language (or other properties), but none of the solutions are foolproof. This post describes how to fetch only localized results from the SharePoint Search index,…Continue reading Using “DetectedLanguage” to return only localized results from SharePoint Search index

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Alternative Languages in SharePoint forcing the (cumbersome) use of localized Managed Properties

Localization and multilingual environments in SharePoint are an endless source of interesting issues and blog post topics. In one case, we had a tenant created originally in English, and a site collection created in Finnish. In this particular case, SharePoint somehow messed up the language settings and ended up requiring…Continue reading Alternative Languages in SharePoint forcing the (cumbersome) use of localized Managed Properties

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