Thursday, May 14, 2015

Search - File Shares as Content Source in SharePoint 2013 On Premises


Few things about File Share Content Source

1.Crawled files in file share system contain metadata that can be used by the search refiners in SharePoint

2.Can use SharePoint Search refiner to filer search results based on file type or author for the file shares which is supported by default.

3.Managed properties which are available for file shares contain Author,ContentType,DisplayAuthor,FileExtension,FileType,Title,IsContainer,ContentSource,Created and so on . You can use them for filtering file share content in search results or customizing your search result display template. For filtering file share content in search results based on the folder structure, you can use "Path" managed property.

 4.When end users search the document in the search site it will be displayed according to the permissions given on the files and folders , this happens automatically.

 5.Actually core content is stored on file server itself, only metadata associated with the indexed content will be stored in SharePoint. This metadata entirely different from actual metadata services.
 


 

1 comment:

  1. Ram, thanks for his post. I have a question about Path. When I add this to my refiners, it shows the entire path for each file, including the file name itself. How can I trim or change this so that I can use this as a refiner for folder structure?

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