PowerShell™ for SharePoint® 2013 How-To

Create a Custom Metadata-Managed Property

Scenario/Problem: You want to create a metadata managed property.

Solution: Use the New-SPEnterpriseSearchMetadataManagedProperty cmdlet.

Instead of crawling content to generate a managed property, you can use this search cmdlet to create a managed property entry within a search service application. This makes replicating search configurations within various environments (development, staging, production, and so on) easier. Listing 13.14 shows sample command lines.

Listing 13.14. Creating a New Metadata-Managed Property

$ssApp = Get-SPEnterpriseSearchServiceApplication-Identity 81aedaf7-704c-47f4-8173-5e99a7495ac3$category = Get-SPEnterpriseSearchMetadataCategory-SearchApplication $ssApp -Identity ...