One of the requirements for the
project was to roll up data from a list that’s sorted by Name, Relevance and Last Date modified in descending order.
In previous versions of SharePoint, the out-of-the-box search results provided links to show results by relevance or modified date. Now, with SharePoint 2013, the results may be sorted by any managed property but there are a few preset values. However, by default, the sort option is not enabled. So to allow your users to sort search results, follow these simple steps:
1) Edit one of the results pages in your search center site and Edit the Search Results web part:
2) To
add the JSON go into the search results web part properties, expand the
“Settings” toggle and enable the “Show sort dropdown” option. We can get rid of
all the predefined sort orders and insert our own :
Our Query :
[{"name":"Relevance","sorts":[
{"name":"Name","sorts":[{"p":"
{"name":"Date Modified","sorts":[{"p":"
{"name":"Name","sorts":[{"p":"
{"name":"Date Modified","sorts":[{"p":"
The sort options are controlled by the JSON in the Available sort orders text box. You may modify this to add or remove sort options. Feel free to choose from any of the 600+ managed properties available out-of-the-box.
What does the JSON mean?
eg
: Sort according to Name and Location
Let’s format the
JSON to get an understanding of what’s going on here.
 |
The “name”
property is the display name that you will see in the search drop down. Even
though we’re not displaying the search drop down in our Web Part you can still
give it a meaningful name.
The “sorts”
property contains our sort order for the search results. The “p” is the managed
property name and the “d” defines whether descending order is true or false (1
is descending and 0 is ascending).
3) Click OK in the toolpane and check-in the changes of the page.
4) Perform a search. A drop-down appears above the results:
How To add a managed property
1.
Verify that the user account that is performing this procedure is
an administrator for the Search service application.
2.
In Central Administration, in the Application Management
section, click Manage service applications.
3.
Click the Search service application.
4.
On the Search Administration page, in the Quick Launch, under Queries and
Results, click Search Schema.
5.
On the Managed Properties page, click New Managed
Property.
6.
On the New Managed Property page, in the Property name
box in the Name
and description section, enter the name of the new managed
property. You can also enter a description.
7.
In the Type section, select one of the following options
for the property:
o
Text
o
Integer
o
Decimal
o
Date and Time
o
Yes/No
o
Double precision float
o
Binary
8.
In the Main characteristics section, select one or
several of the following:
o
Searchable
o
Advanced Searchable Settings (optional, if Searchable is selected)
o
Queryable
o
Retrievable
o
Allow multiple values
o
Refinable
o
Sortable
o
Alias
o
Token Normalization
o
Complete Matching
| Important : |
|
If you want to be able to use this managed property as a refiner,
you must select both Refinable and Queryable.
If you want to use this managed property for sort, you must
select Sortable
|
9.
In the Mappings to crawled properties section, click Add a mapping.
10. On the
Crawled property selection page, select a crawled property to map to the
managed property and then click OK. Repeat this step to map more crawled
properties.
11. On the New
Managed Property page, in the Mappings to crawled properties section, specify if
you want to include:
o
All content from all crawled properties mapped to this managed
property
o
Content from the first crawled property that contains a value and,
optionally, in which order.
12. In the Company name
extraction section, you can optionally select the check box to
enable company name extraction.
13. In the Custom entity
extraction section, you can optionally select the check box to
enable custom entity extraction. See Create and deploy custom entity extractors
in SharePoint Server 2013 for the procedures.
14. Click OK.
To edit a managed property
1.
Verify that the user account that is performing this procedure is
an administrator for the Search service application.
2.
In Central Administration, in the Application Management
section, click Manage service applications.
3.
Click the Search service application.
4.
On the Search Administration page, in the Quick Launch, under Queries and
Results, click Search Schema.
5.
On the Managed Properties page, find the managed property that you
want to edit, or enter its name in the Filter box.
6.
Point to the managed property that you want to edit, click the
arrow, and then click Edit/Map property.
7.
On the Edit Managed Property page, edit the settings and then
click OK.
