Search by content type using Search API in REST

Question

I have two content types, softs ct and softs ct page having parent content types item and page .

I managed to display results from custom list which is having softs ct but it doesn't display results from softs ct page.

I have tried with ContentType:'softs*' but it only shows results from one content type. How can I get from both content types?

Here is my search query

var query = appweburl + "/_api/search/query?querytext='ContentType:softs*'&selectproperties='Title,DueDate,ExpiryDate'&sortlist='LastModifiedTime:descending'";

Answer 1

Are you sure that your softs ct page results have been crawled?

Also, you might want to try using the OR operator to specify both ContentTypes on a Result source and then reference it on your URL:

{{searchterms} ContentType:A OR ContentType:B}

var query = appweburl + "/_api/search/query?querytext='ContentType:softs*'&selectproperties='Title,DueDate,ExpiryDate'&sortlist='LastModifiedTime:descending'&sourceid='40f080a5-da63-4dce-b33a-fdad0dc83d1c'";

You can also try adding SPContentType to your refinementfilters:

var query = appweburl + "/_api/search/query?querytext='yoursearchterm'&selectproperties='Title,DueDate,ExpiryDate'&sortlist='LastModifiedTime:descending'&sourceid='40f080a5-da63-4dce-b33a-fdad0dc83d1c'&refinementfilters='SPContentType:(%22Download%22)'";

You might need to specify a QueryTemplatePropertiesUrl on that URL:

QueryTemplatePropertiesUrl='spfile://webroot/queryparametertemplate.xml'

More on that on Waldek's post.

You might find this tool useful:

https://sp2013searchtool.codeplex.com/