PowerShell™ for SharePoint® 2013 How-To

Create a Metadata Mapping

Scenario/Problem: You need to map a crawled property to a managed property.

Solution: Use the New-SPEnterpriseSearchMetadataMapping cmdlet.

To be able to use new search fields within SharePoint, you must map the crawled properties to managed properties. You can use the variables generated in the previous sections to map the two together using the New-SPEnterpriseSearchMetadataMapping cmdlet. Listing 13.17 shows sample command lines.

Listing 13.17. Creating a New Metadata Mapping

$ssApp = Get-SPEnterpriseSearchServiceApplication-Identity 81aedaf7-704c-47f4-8173-5e99a7495ac3$crawledproperty = Get-SPEnterpriseSearchMetadataCrawledProperty-SearchApplication $ssApp -Name "ows_NewField"$managedproperty = Get-SPEnterpriseSearchMetadataManagedProperty ...