How to display search result of a multiple line of text column

Hi @l z ,

Through the description, you want to display search result of a multiple line of text column with site owner permission and now the results are missing.
There are two approaches for you.

1. Create a new site column. This can be done with the site owner permission
2. If you are willing to grant the user with site collection administrator permission, you can keep using a list column and create a new managed property.

Site column:
First go to Site Settings>Web Designer Galleries>Site column ,to create a new site column and the type is “multiple line of text”:

Then add it to your list:


Then it will be crawled and mapped automatically and a few moments later you can go to search the content you want.

List column:
First try to create a new list column and make sure the type is “multiple line of text”:

Then go to Search Admin to create a new managed property:
How to find the admin center url:
https://social.technet.microsoft.com/Forums/ie/en-US/acf07cd6-1cc7-40c9-a449-1b0c2fe3b36a/sharepoint-online-admin-center-url?forum=sharepointgeneral
How to create a managed property:
https://mstechtalk.com/create-multiline-text-field-searchable/
At last like this:

After that you can find your content.
How search works in SharePoint Online and some other troubleshooting tips you might be interested in:
https://techcommunity.microsoft.com/t5/microsoft-sharepoint-blog/introduction-to-sharepoint-online-search/ba-p/170708

Hope my clarification is clear. Please feel free to post back if you need further assistance on this issue.

Best regards,
Yanting Lu

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