Create Managed Property In Sharepoint 2013 Using Powershell Script

In this blog, we will learn about the default managed properties, their settings, and the default mapping between crawled and managed properties creation using PowerShell.

Managed Property

Managed properties can have a large number of settings or attributes. These attributes determine how the contents are shown in the search results.

For more details about the Properties, go to https://technet.microsoft.com/en-us/library/jj219630.aspx

Powershell Script

#Search Service Application
$category = Get - SPEnterpriseSearchMetadataCategory– SearchApplication $searchapp– Identity $_.Category
$property = Get - SPEnterpriseSearchMetadataCrawledProperty - SearchApplication $searchapp - name $_.CrawledPropertyName - Category $category - ea silentlycontinue
# If the Crawled Property is present
if ($property) {
    #Check Managed Property already exists
    $ManagedProperty = Get - SPEnterpriseSearchMetadataManagedProperty - SearchApplication $searchapp - Identity $_.ManagedPropertyName - ea silentlycontinue
    if ($ManagedProperty) {
        Write - Host - f green” Cannot create managed property” $_.ManagedPropertyName“ Already exists”
    } else {
        #Create Managed Property
        New - SPEnterpriseSearchMetadataManagedProperty - Name $_.ManagedPropertyName - SearchApplication $searchapp - Type $_.Type - Description $_.Description
        $ManagedProperty = Get - SPEnterpriseSearchMetadataManagedProperty - SearchApplication $searchapp - Identity $_.ManagedPropertyName
        # Map the Managed Property with the Crawled Property
        New - SPEnterpriseSearchMetadataMapping - SearchApplication $searchapp - ManagedProperty $ManagedProperty– CrawledProperty $property
    }
}

Conclusion

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