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We implemented the search on the document library having the items more than 100000 items with 8-12 metadata properties in SharePoint online as per the customer requirements, which was working fine.

Currently the search results contains items based on the content search and metadata properties. Now we need omit the items based on the content search(exclude documents content) . we need to display search results based on only meta data properties

Any suggestions will be greatly helpful

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You can do this in several ways but this is the simplest:

  1. Add a Search Results web part to a page
  2. Edit properties
  3. Click Change Query
  4. In the Property Filter dropdown select Show All Managed Properties
  5. Add your RefinableString properties one at a time separated by a space.
  6. Your Search Results web part will pull back all of the documents without having to run a KeyWord search, which I believe is what you are trying to accomplish.

Edit___________________ Even easier Click Change Query then click on the TAB labeled REFINERS

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  • Thanks for the reply. Using Display Template we can change the UI of the search results. But i need to exclude the results based on the document content.
    – TARUN
    Feb 21, 2019 at 17:49
  • You mentioned you have documents and they all have metadata. What are you trying to exclude? Which documents? Feb 21, 2019 at 17:51
  • I need to exclude the search results returned based on the content and display only results based on the meta data properties
    – TARUN
    Feb 21, 2019 at 17:52
  • Have you mapped your custom columns to Managed Properties? Feb 21, 2019 at 18:01
  • Yes Mapped to RefinableStrings
    – TARUN
    Feb 21, 2019 at 18:07
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As a workaround, You can map crawled properties(not include the context) to a managed property, then use this managed property in the query. Like this: managed property:value

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  • Thanks for the reply,My first thought was the same approach and implemented successfully. But user are reporting that this approach is not user friendly. So searching for other approaches to meet the exact requirement.
    – TARUN
    Feb 22, 2019 at 10:26
  • It's by default the search results will show the content unless you use the managed property. So I think there is no other ways to meet your requirement. Feb 25, 2019 at 10:03

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