When does a site become a managed property?
SharePoint Server 2016 also automatically creates a managed property for the site column, and adds a mapping between the two. Only site columns that contain values automatically become managed properties when they are crawled.
How to view and edit managed properties in solutions?
You can view and edit managed properties for many other solution components, such as a web resource, process, chart, or dashboard. Next to the component in a solution select … and then select Managed properties.
How to create managed property in site column?
A managed property is then automatically created and mapped to the corresponding crawled property. The name of this property is generated by removing spaces from the site column name, and adding a suffix. The suffix that is added varies, depending on the site column type. In this example, we get the following managed properties:
Can a crawled property be removed from a managed property?
Once the managed and crawled properties are created and you have mapped the crawled property to a refinable managed property, you can remove yourself explicitly from the Site Collection Administrators group. Once you do however, my testing has shown you will no longer be able to see the original managed property in the search schema.
How is a managed property created in SharePoint?
Managed property is created by SharePoint based on crawled property of site columns. For site columns of type Managed Metadata, the following prefix is added to the site column name internal name: ows_taxId For all other site column types, the following suffix is added to the site column name internal name: OWS
How to map OWS _ sitename to a managed property?
However, you can map the crawled property ( ows_SiteName) to an already created Managed Property in SPO ( RefinableString00) as shown in the below image: You can then set an Alias ( SiteTitle) to the RefinableString00 property and use it in search just like you would use a normal Managed Property.