Exclude documents content results in SharePoint Online Search

Question

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

Answer 1

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

Answer 2

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