PowerShell™ for SharePoint® 2013 How-To

Create a Custom Metadata Category

Scenario/Problem: You want to create a metadata category for custom crawled properties.

Solution: Use the New-SPEnterpriseSearchMetadataCategory cmdlet.

Creating a metadata category enables you to organize your custom crawled properties. This makes managing custom search configurations easier. Creating a new category first enables you to use it when generating your crawled properties. You need to provide an Enterprise Search Service application reference, as shown in Listing 13.8.

Listing 13.8. Creating a New Metadata Category

$ssApp = Get-SPEnterpriseSearchServiceApplication-Identity 81aedaf7-704c-47f4-8173-5e99a7495ac3New-SPEnterpriseSearchMetaDataCategory -Name "Custom Properties"-SearchApplication $ssApp ...