SharePoint Online: Search & Navigation 🔍
Microsoft SharePoint Online · Curated Video Lessons
SharePoint's search engine indexes all content across your sites, libraries, and lists — making it possible to find any document or list item instantly across your entire organisation. Understanding how search works — and how to configure it through managed properties, crawled properties, and result sources — unlocks the full power of SharePoint as a knowledge management platform. This guide covers SharePoint search architecture, managed properties, metadata navigation, and how to configure search to return exactly the results your users need.
🏛️ SharePoint Search Architecture – Managed Properties
A February 2023 tutorial on mastering SharePoint search architecture through understanding managed properties — the key concept that controls how content is indexed and searchable in SharePoint. This video explains the search architecture from the ground up: how the crawler indexes content, what crawled properties are, how they map to managed properties, and why managed properties are the lever you pull to make specific metadata searchable. Essential background knowledge for anyone who wants to configure SharePoint search beyond the default settings.
- Search Architecture
- Crawled Properties
- Managed Properties
- Index Configuration
Source: SharePoint Search Architecture Series 2023
🔄 Crawled Properties vs Managed Properties in SharePoint Search
A clear explanation of the difference between crawled properties and managed properties in SharePoint Search, and how this distinction affects what's searchable in your SharePoint environment. This video walks through how custom columns you add to lists and libraries become crawled properties after indexing, and how you map them to managed properties to make them available as search refiners, sortable columns, and search query parameters. Demystifies a complex topic for site owners and administrators.
- Crawled Properties
- Property Mapping
- Search Refiners
- Custom Columns
Source: SharePoint Search Deep Dive Series
🎯 SharePoint Search with Managed Properties
A practical tutorial on how to use managed properties when searching in SharePoint — covering how to use keyword query language (KQL) to search using managed property values, how to use managed properties as refiners in the search results page, and how to configure the search box to target specific managed properties. This video moves from theory to practice, showing real examples of how managed properties let you find exactly the documents or items you're looking for, even in a large SharePoint environment with thousands of files.
- KQL Queries
- Search Refiners
- Search Box
- Targeted Search
Source: SharePoint Search Practical Series
📂 Use Managed Properties to Search SharePoint Libraries
A tutorial specifically focused on using managed properties to get more precise search results when searching SharePoint lists and libraries — covering how to build search queries that target specific columns, how to use the search scope to limit results to a specific library or site, and how to save common searches as search alerts so you're notified when new content matching your criteria is added. Practical and immediately applicable for users who regularly search across large document libraries.
- Column-Specific Search
- Search Scope
- Search Alerts
- Precise Results
Source: SharePoint Library Search Series
🗂️ Managed Metadata Navigation Filtering in SharePoint Online
A tutorial on setting up managed metadata navigation filtering for SharePoint document libraries and lists — covering how to enable the metadata navigation feature, configure key filters using managed metadata term sets and site columns, and use the navigation tree that appears in the left panel to drill down through content by category, project, department, or any other metadata dimension. Metadata navigation is one of the most powerful ways to help users find content in large libraries without relying solely on search.
- Metadata Navigation
- Term Sets
- Navigation Tree
- Filter by Category
Source: SharePoint Metadata Navigation Series
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