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APPLIES TO: 2013 2016 2019 SharePoint in Microsoft 365 You can add refiners to a page to help users quickly browse to specific content. Refiners are based on managed properties from the search index.
How to use refiners on a search results page?
To help the user quickly narrow search results to articles that are written by a particular writer, exactly like you narrowed search results when shopping for a travel book on Japan, you had to make the managed property that represents the “Internal Writer” site column refinable.
As a global or SharePoint admin, you can specify how search should behave for a classic site collection or a site. The shared Search Box at the top of most classic pages uses these search settings. Any settings you specify on site collection level applies to all sites within that site collection, unless you specify other settings for the site.
How to configure search for a site collection?
By default, queries are sent to the same search results page as the parent, but you can override this for a site collection or a site. You can also configure search navigation for a site. With search navigation, users can move quickly between different search vertical pages.
How to choose refiners in the web part?
In the Web Part tool pane, in the Refinement Target section, select the Web Part from which from which to filter search results. By default, the Search Results Web Part is selected. In the Web Part tool pane, verify that the Choose Refiners in this Web Part is selected. Click Choose Refiners.
How to configure properties of the refinement web part in?
Verify that the user account that performs this procedure is a member of the Designers SharePoint group on the Enterprise Search Center site. On the Settings menu, click Site Settings. On the Site Settings page, in the Web Designer Galleries section, click Master pages and page layouts.
How to edit the refinement web part in Excel?
Click the Settings menu, and then click Edit Page. In the Web Part, click the Refinement Web Part Menu arrow, and then click Edit Web Part. In the Web Part tool pane, in the Refinement Target section, select the Web Part from which from which to filter search results. By default, the Search Results Web Part is selected.
How to enable a managed property as a refiner?
In Central Administration, in the Application Management section, click Manage service applications. On the Manage Service Applications page, click the Search service application in which you want to enable the managed property as a refiner. On the Search Administration page, in the Quick Launch, under Queries and Results, click Search Schema.
You can apply faceted navigation only to publishing sites that use Overview of managed navigation in SharePoint Server, and for lists or libraries that have been Share a library or list as a catalog. Review the information in “Plan refiners and faceted navigation” in Plan search for cross-site publishing sites in SharePoint Server 2016.
How to search for crawled properties in SharePoint?
When you search for a crawled property, you may find two crawled properties that represent the same content. For example, a site column of type Text named Color will during crawl discover two crawled properties: ows_Color and ows_q_TEXT_Color .