When do SharePoint Site Variables (stored in Site Proerty Bag) get indexed

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When do SharePoint Site Variables (stored in Site Proerty Bag) get indexed

Rene Wagner 161

Hello,

We plan to set up a set of Search Result Sources that will make use of Site Variables stored in the site collection property bag to find content (by matching the site variable values against document/item property values. My question is how/when do the site collection property bags get indexed? I assume that the variables will be indexed the first time the site collection is crawled after it is created, correct? If, after site creation it becomes necessary to make changes to these site variables, will an incremental crawl pick up changes to these site variables when made or is it necessary to re-index the entire site collection to pick up the changes? Or is it necessary to run a FULL CRAWL of the farm (which would not be possible to do every time we make a change in our case due to the size of the farm).

Thanks

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JoyZ 18,111

@Rene Wagner ,

Per my test, after we add Property Key and index it through PowerShell as shown below:

$web = Get-SPWeb http://sp13:36043  
$web.AllProperties["SiteJulie"] = "JulieTest"  
$web.IndexedPropertyKeys.Add("SiteJulie")  
$web.Update()

Then run full or incremental crawl, we can see the crawled property from the search service application:

After that, we can create Managed Property that maps to the crawled property.

Also, if the property value is updated later, it is sufficient to run an incremental crawl on the items which have been newly created or modiﬁed since the last crawl, without re-index.

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Rene Wagner 161 Reputation points

2022-01-18T20:05:15.443+00:00

Hi Julie,

Thanks for the information. I'll test this out today. One more question (which was raised by your explanation). What we have done is configure a result source that is used on our sites which uses the following query:

{searchboxquery} (isDocument:1) (SiteDepartment:{Site.SiteDepartment})
((FileExtension <> aspx) AND (FileExtension <> html) AND
(FileExtension <> css) AND
(FileExtension <> xml) AND
(FileExtension <> xaml) AND
(FileExtension <> js))

As you can see, this query uses the value of the current site property bag variables -- e.g. the value of Site.SiteDepartment -- and searches for documents/items that have a matching value in their SiteDepartment property. I.e. we are just using the property bag variables to provide values to "search for against document properties".

Since we are not trying to search for "sites that have this value" but only documents that have a property value that matches it, there should be no reason to have to index the actual site property bag values, correct? We only need managed property values for the document properties, but not the site property bag variables, correct?

Thanks
JoyZ 18,111 Reputation points

2022-01-21T09:01:39.89+00:00

@Rene Wagner ,

The answer is no, no matter how you use the value of a site property, as long as you use it in search engines, it is necessary to be indexed.
JoyZ 18,111 Reputation points

2022-01-24T01:44:54.41+00:00

@Rene Wagner ,

Do you have any progress on this issue?

Please remember to update this thread if you need further assistance.

Answer 2

sadomovalex 3,636

you need to reindex site after added new indexed property bag (Site Settings -> Search and offline availability -> Reindex site). Check more details here: How to set an Indexed Property Bag Value.

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