Views Managed Property

Question

I have been trying to include the number of views in a search on a SP communications site. I believe that the ViewsRecent or ViewsLifetime managed properties would be helpful, but neither of them are refinable. Because of this, I have been trying to use a RefinableInt managed property that is refinable to create my own custom managed property to use in my search refiners. The only problem is that I can't find out which crawled properties ViewsRecent/ViewsLifetime are sorted to. 

Does anyone know which crawled properties I would have to map my custom managed property to in order to use it as one of my search refiners?

Thanks,

Seth_T

Answer 1

Hi Seth_T,

I see. However, the Viewsrecent/Viewslifetime does not have a mapped crawled property to their managed property. This normally means that the crawled property is not available for us to map to a different managed property.

A lot of the default properties in SharePoint Online are not customizable.

If you have strong requirement about this, we suggest you post your idea to our UserVoice. This is the best platform for us to hear from you and make our products and services better for you and others.

Thanks,

Rena

Answer 2

Hi Rena,

Thanks for your reply. I did consider using the highlighted content web part as that would have the recent material. However the point isn't just to display recent content. As I mentioned in my original post, I am trying to use a search web part. ViewsLifetime will be one of several refinable properties. The web part has a filtering pane which allows users to sort content by several criteria. So far I have been able to add criteria like date created and author because those are managed properties that are also refinable. I am trying to do the same with ViewsLifetime.

Seth_T

Answer 3

Hi Seth_T,

Unfortunately, no such crawled property can be used to approach your goal. Normally, the usable crawled property in SharePoint Online are from words/user profiles/metadata, no such frequency related crawled property is available to be customized in managed property.

Thanks for your understanding,

Rena

Answer 4

I wondered if that might be the case. So if that crawled property is not available, is there another one that would give similar results that I might map a customizable managed property to?

Thanks,

Seth_T

Answer 5

Hi Seth_T,

I can’t find the related crawled property for you. However, based on your descriptions, I suggest you use the highlighted content web part to do so. It can simply catch the most recent documents for you and show them automatically on the site page.

Reference: Use the Highlighted content web part. Please check if this can meet your needs.

Thanks,

Rena