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SharePoint Search on a Specific SharePoint List/Library.

There are times when we need to perform search on specific SharePoint List/Library. One of the possible solution that I found was as below.
Add a column to your SharePoint List/Library, I would suggest you to create a site column and add it to your SharePoint List/Library. This will allow you to all the same column to other List/libraries also.
Now open central administrator > Application Management > Manage Service Applications > Search service Application > Content Sources.
Start full crawl, this will get the created site column to the crawl.
Once the crawl is completed, in the left pane you can see Metadata Properties, click it.



You will see below screen. Now click new managed property. Below screen will be loaded.



Enter property name and click on Add mapping. This will open below screen. Find the site column crawled property that you created and map it with the name. That’s it your Meta property is now mapped with your crawled property.





Next create a “Basic Search Template” that will be used to perform the search. When this is created a basic search page gets displayed. Click on the “Advanced Search”. On this page, edit the “advanced search webpart” to include this new property that you have created in Search Administration. When you click edit webpart, it displays you properties of the web part you can change. Add you’re created Meta property to each category and click save.




Go to Advance search and choose the new property from the drop down below and choose equals the default value of your site column that you created some time ago. Perform you search. You should see results coming from that 1 single document library.

Thanks & regards,
Keyur Pandya

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