How to create a REST API refinement filter?
CA–> Search Service Application–> Search Schema–> Managed Properties–> Create New Managed Properties and have the required properties . Then use this Managed properties in your REST API refinement filter that would work. We have done similar thing.
When to use a refinement filter in a query?
The set of refinement filters used when issuing a refinement query. For GET requests, the RefinementFilters parameter is specified as an FQL filter. For POST requests, the RefinementFilters parameter is specified as an array of FQL filters. The set of refiners to return in a search result.
Is there a REST API for SharePoint search?
SharePoint Search provides REST query API that can be used to access search results. In other words, SharePoint search may be as a read-only data source which provides all the data you have (list items, documents, user profiles, and Office 365 services based on SharePoint such as Planner, Groups, Project Online and others)
How to set refiner as true in SharePoint Search API?
Assuming that the BaseOfficeLocation and Skills are the userprofile OOB columns, if so first we need to set the refiner as true via search schema. once that is done do full crawl and try again. Alternate option is to first add the property as refiner via refiner webpart and check whether its working or not.
Where do I find refinement filters in SharePoint?
You can provide one or more refinement filters for a refined query by adding refinement filters to the RefinementFilters property of the KeywordQuery class. Multiple refinement filters enable you to provide multilevel drill-down into the search results]
How to design RESTful Search / filtering?
For more information take a look here. It seems that resource filtering/searching can be implemented in a RESTful way. The idea is to introduce a new endpoint called /filters/ or /api/filters/. Using this endpoint filter can be considered as a resource and hence created via POST method.
Is there a refinement filter on lookup column?
So if the lookup column was called Skills (referencing a list called Skills), and a document might have multiple values for Skills (e.g. Javascript, Python, PHP, etc.) is there a way to use refinement filters for something like that within the Rest API?