Enterprise Search Property Filters

By using property filters, you can narrow the focus of the keyword search based on the following:

  • Managed properties

  • Scopes

  • Collapsed results

For information about managed properties, see Managing Metadata. For information about search scopes, see Working with Search Scopes.

<property name>:<value>
<scope name>:<value>
<collapsed results type>:<value>

Remarks

Keyword property filters have no maximum length; however, the full length of the keyword query should be less than 1024 characters.

You can specify a prefix, which includes part of a word, from the beginning of the word, for keyword property filter queries.

Keyword syntax supports querying on the full set of managed properties for any properties of a string or numeric type.

Property Filter Examples

Name Description Examples

site

The URL property.

The value specified must meet the following criteria:

  • If a URL folder name contains a space, it must be enclosed in double quotation marks (" ").

  • A URL folder name must not end with a trailing slash ("/").

site:https://www.microsoft.com

author

The author name property.

If author name contains a space, enclose the specified value in double quotation marks. (" ").

author:John

author:"John Smith"

author:DOMAIN\jsmith

duplicate

Collapsing filter. Requests duplicate items for the specified URL.

duplicate:http://<displayUrl>

scope

Compound scope. Specify the friendly name of scope.

scope:"Marketing Content"

Property Filter Validation

When the query is executed, the following items are not validated:

  • URL or site names (if a specified name does not exist in the index, no results are returned)

  • File name extensions (if the extension does not exist in the file name extension list, no results are returned)

See Also

Reference

Multiple Property Filters in Enterprise Search
Enterprise Search Keyword Syntax Inclusion and Exclusion