Managed Properties in FAST vs. SharePoint 2010

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11/02/2012

In SharePoint 2010 the FAST Query SSA has its own set of managed properties out of the box, which is independent of those in the SharePoint SSA. Customers often wonder how these properties are different. Here we examine all the out of the box properties of each and their differences.

SharePoint

To get a list of all managed properties for the SharePoint SSA, run the following script in a SharePoint PowerShell:

#$ssa=A reference to the SharePoint SSA

Get-SPEnterpriseSearchMetadataManagedProperty -SearchApplication $ssa | Select Name, Managedtype

This gives us the following list of 126 managed properties.

AboutMe	Text
Account	Text
AccountName	Text
AssignedTo	Text
Author	Text
BaseOfficeLocation	Text
BestBetKeywords	Text
CategoryNavigationUrl	Text
CollapsingStatus	Integer
Colleagues	Text
contentclass	Text
ContentsHidden	Text
ContentSource	Text
ContentType	Text
CreatedBy	Text
Department	Text
Description	Text
DisplayDate	DateTime
DocComments	Text
DocId	Text
DocKeywords	Text
DocSignature	Text
DocSubject	Text
DuplicateHash	Integer
EMail	Text
EndDate	DateTime
ExcludeFromSummary	Text
ExpirationTime	DateTime
FileExtension	Text
Filename	Text
FirstName	Text
FollowAllAnchor	Text
HierarchyUrl	Text
HighConfidenceDisplayProperty1	Text
HighConfidenceDisplayProperty10	Text
HighConfidenceDisplayProperty11	Text
HighConfidenceDisplayProperty12	Text
HighConfidenceDisplayProperty13	Text
HighConfidenceDisplayProperty14	Text
HighConfidenceDisplayProperty15	Text
HighConfidenceDisplayProperty2	Text
HighConfidenceDisplayProperty3	Text
HighConfidenceDisplayProperty4	Text
HighConfidenceDisplayProperty5	Text
HighConfidenceDisplayProperty6	Text
HighConfidenceDisplayProperty7	Text
HighConfidenceDisplayProperty8	Text
HighConfidenceDisplayProperty9	Text
HighConfidenceImageURL	Text
HighConfidenceMatching	Text
HighConfidenceResultType	Text
HitHighlightedProperties	Text
HitHighlightedSummary	Text
HostingPartition	Text
ImageDateCreated	DateTime
Interests	Text
IsDocument	YesNo
JobTitle	Text
Keywords	Text
LastModifiedTime	DateTime
LastName	Text
Location	Text
Memberships	Text
MetadataAuthor	Text
MobilePhone	Text
ModifiedBy	Text
NLCodePage	Integer
Notes	Text
OfficeNumber	Text
OrgNames	Text
OrgParentNames	Text
OrgParentUrls	Text
OrgUrls	Text
OWS_URL	Text
parentLink	Text
PastProjects	Text
Path	Text
PictureHeight	Integer
PictureThumbnailURL	Text
PictureURL	Text
PictureWidth	Integer
PreferredName	Text
Priority	Text
PrivateColleagues	Text
Pronunciations	Text
Purpose	Text
Rank	Integer
RankDetail	Text
RankingWeightHigh	Text
RankingWeightLow	Text
RankingWeightName	Text
Responsibilities	Text
Schools	Text
SecondaryFileExtension	Text
ServerRedirectedURL	Text
ServiceApplicationID	Text
SipAddress	Text
Site	Text
SiteID	Text
SiteTitle	Text
Size	Integer
Skills	Text
SocialTagTextUrl	Text
SPSiteURL	Text
StartDate	DateTime
Status	Text
Title	Text
UrlDepth	Integer
urn:schemas.microsoft.com:fulltextqueryinfo:cataloggroup	Text
urn:schemas.microsoft.com:fulltextqueryinfo:sourcegroup	Text
urn:schemas-microsoft-com:office:office#Description	Text
urn:schemas-microsoft-com:office:office#ows_CrawlType	Text
urn:schemas-microsoft-com:office:office#ows_ListTemplate	Text
urn:schemas-microsoft-com:office:office#Subject	Text
urn:schemas-microsoft-com:office:office#Title	Text
urn:schemas-microsoft-com:publishing:Category	Text
urn:schemas-microsoft-com:publishing:CategoryTitle	Text
urn:schemas-microsoft-com:sharepoint:portal:area:CategoryUrlNavi	Text
urn:schemas-microsoft-com:sharepoint:portal:area:Path	Text
UserName	Text
UserProfile_GUID	Text
WebId	Text
WikiCategory	Text
WorkEmail	Text
WorkPhone	Text
YomiDisplayName	Text

FAST Search

To get a list of all managed properties for the FAST Query SSA, run the following script in a FAST PowerShell on the FAST server:

Get-FASTSearchMetadataManagedProperty | Select Name, Type | Sort-Object Name | Format-Table

This gives us the following list of 102 managed properties:

Account	Text
anchortext	Text
AssignedTo	Text
assocqueries	Text
Author	Text
body	Text
charset	Text
CollapsingStatus	Integer
Companies	Text
Company	Text
companyteaser	Text
contentclass	Text
Contents	Text
ContentSource	Text
ContentType	Text
crawledpropertiescontent	Text
crawledpropertynames	Text
Created	Datetime
CreatedBy	Text
description	Text
DetectedLanguage	Text
DisplayDate	Datetime
docacl	Text
docaclsystemid	Text
DocComments	Text
docdatetime	Datetime
DocKeywords	Text
docrank	Integer
DocSubject	Text
documentsignature	Integer
docvector	Text
domain	Text
eetitle	Text
EndDate	Datetime
fileextension	Text
Filename	Text
FilterMetaData	Integer
format	Text
HitHighlightedProperties	Text
HitHighlightedSummary	Text
hwboost	Integer
ImageDateCreated	Datetime
IsDocument	Boolean
IsEmptyList	Boolean
IsListItem	Boolean
JobTitle	Text
Keywords	Text
language	Text
languages	Text
Location	Text
locations	Text
locationteaser	Text
MetadataAuthor	Text
MobilePhone	Text
ModifiedBy	Text
notes	Text
OrgNames	Text
OWSItemURL	Text
owsmetadatafacetinfo	Text
owsSPLocationInfo	Text
owstaxid	Text
owstaxidmetadataalltagsinfo	Text
owstaxIdSPLocationInfo	Text
owstaxIdSPLocationList	Text
owstaxIdSPLocationSite	Text
OWSURL	Text
Path	Text
personnames	Text
personnameteaser	Text
PictureHeight	Integer
PictureThumbnailURL	Text
PictureWidth	Integer
Priority	Text
processingtime	Datetime
Purpose	Text
SchemaSignature	Integer
ServerRedirectedURL	Text
Site	Text
SiteId	Text
SiteName	Text
siterank	Integer
SiteTitle	Text
Size	Integer
sizelabel	Text
spdocid	Text
spsiteurl	Text
StartDate	Datetime
status	Text
teaser	Text
Title	Text
tld	Text
url	Text
urldepthrank	Integer
urlkeywords	Text
urls	Text
UserName	Text
WebId	Text
WikiCategory	Text
WorkEmail	Text
WorkId	Integer
WorkPhone	Text
Write	Datetime

Differences

So now we have a handy reference for all the managed properties. You'll notice not only that the FAST list is shorter, but there are actually a lot of changes. FAST drops and introduces quite a few of them. For a better look at how they are different, here is a Diff of the two, showing the change as you move from the SharePoint SSA to the FAST Query SSA.

Legend:

In SharePoint SSA but not FAST Query SSA

In both

New in FAST Query SSA

AboutMe

Account

AccountName

anchortext

AssignedTo

assocqueries

Author

BaseOfficeLocation

BestBetKeywords

CategoryNavigationUrl

body

charset

CollapsingStatus

Colleagues

Companies

Company

companyteaser

contentclass

ContentsHidden

Contents

ContentSource

ContentType

crawledpropertiescontent

crawledpropertynames

Created

CreatedBy

Department

Description

description

DetectedLanguage

DisplayDate

docacl

docaclsystemid

DocComments

DocId

docdatetime

DocKeywords

DocSignature

docrank

DocSubject

DuplicateHash

documentsignature

docvector

domain

eetitle

EndDate

ExcludeFromSummary

ExpirationTime

FileExtension

fileextension

Filename

FirstName

FollowAllAnchor

HierarchyUrl

HighConfidenceDisplayProperty1

HighConfidenceDisplayProperty10

HighConfidenceDisplayProperty11

HighConfidenceDisplayProperty12

HighConfidenceDisplayProperty13

HighConfidenceDisplayProperty14

HighConfidenceDisplayProperty15

HighConfidenceDisplayProperty2

HighConfidenceDisplayProperty3

HighConfidenceDisplayProperty4

HighConfidenceDisplayProperty5

HighConfidenceDisplayProperty6

HighConfidenceDisplayProperty7

HighConfidenceDisplayProperty8

HighConfidenceDisplayProperty9

HighConfidenceImageURL

HighConfidenceMatching

HighConfidenceResultType

FilterMetaData

format

HitHighlightedProperties

HitHighlightedSummary

HostingPartition

hwboost

ImageDateCreated

Interests

IsDocument

IsEmptyList

IsListItem

JobTitle

Keywords

LastModifiedTime

LastName

language

languages

Location

Memberships

locations

locationteaser

MetadataAuthor

MobilePhone

ModifiedBy

NLCodePage

Notes

OfficeNumber

notes

OrgNames

OrgParentNames

OrgParentUrls

OrgUrls

OWS_URL

parentLink

PastProjects

OWSItemURL

owsmetadatafacetinfo

owsSPLocationInfo

owstaxid

owstaxidmetadataalltagsinfo

owstaxIdSPLocationInfo

owstaxIdSPLocationList

owstaxIdSPLocationSite

OWSURL

Path

personnames

personnameteaser

PictureHeight

PictureThumbnailURL

PictureURL

PictureWidth

PreferredName

Priority

PrivateColleagues

Pronunciations

processingtime

Purpose

Rank

RankDetail

RankingWeightHigh

RankingWeightLow

RankingWeightName

Responsibilities

Schools

SecondaryFileExtension

SchemaSignature

ServerRedirectedURL

ServiceApplicationID

SipAddress

Site

SiteID

SiteId

SiteName

siterank

SiteTitle

Size

Skills

SocialTagTextUrl

SPSiteURL

sizelabel

spdocid

spsiteurl

StartDate

Status

status

teaser

Title

UrlDepth

urn:schemas.microsoft.com:fulltextqueryinfo:cataloggroup

urn:schemas.microsoft.com:fulltextqueryinfo:sourcegroup

urn:schemas-microsoft-com:office:office#Description

urn:schemas-microsoft-com:office:office#ows_CrawlType

urn:schemas-microsoft-com:office:office#ows_ListTemplate

urn:schemas-microsoft-com:office:office#Subject

urn:schemas-microsoft-com:office:office#Title

urn:schemas-microsoft-com:publishing:Category

urn:schemas-microsoft-com:publishing:CategoryTitle

urn:schemas-microsoft-com:sharepoint:portal:area:CategoryUrlNavi

urn:schemas-microsoft-com:sharepoint:portal:area:Path

tld

url

urldepthrank

urlkeywords

urls

UserName

UserProfile_GUID

WebId

WikiCategory

WorkEmail

WorkId

WorkPhone

YomiDisplayName

Write

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