SP13: Seach Results and Folders

Question

Objective:

To create a new Results Source to pull only a certain list of documents in a search.

Solution:

Create a new result source and add the path URL for the specific document library. Then add the new result source to the search box query.

Problem:

The problem is the documents are in folders and when I create the new result source it's creating two problems. The first problem is the Result Source is not recognizing the URL. It recognizes up to the site name and nothing afterwards. So I cannot point to the specific library. The second problem is that the document library is full of folders. Is this problem? I created a view without the folders present - it is still not working. Not sure if you can point to views using Result Source

Can anyone help me?

Answer 1

Stop using PATH and use Content Types. It makes requirements like this a breeze.

1. Create a new content type based on Document.
2. Assign the content type to the library.
3. Optionally remove the Document content type
4. Assign the documents in the library to your content type
5. Crawl the content
6. Find the content with a result source ContentType=MyContentType