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How to make property bag values indexed and searchable in?
To make a property bag value searchable, we must explicit set the property bag values to be indexed by the Search crawler. To do this, we simply set the Property bag values to indexed using the SharePoint PnP PowerShell.
Property Bags are simple Key-Value pairs which are available on any SharePoint Web object that is persisted. These are primarily used to store certain properties and configurations for a SharePoint site.
What are the variants of a property bag?
The typical variant types are: The property bag is a pretty simple animal but sometimes it can produce unexpected results. When that happens it helps to be able to see what the property bag contains when testing your script. Here’s a sample script which creates a property bag and displays the dataitem to the screen:
How to add a key to a property bag?
Below are the different ways of setting a property bag and making it indexed. In the above code, a key called “customSiteType” is added to the property bag first.
When to stop using the property bag approach?
If you require a solution that is not security trimmed, the Property Bag approach does not work. The right answer is to use a SharePoint list, I prefer to use a custom content type as well. Then I add the list to every site I want to classify and let the site manager handle the rest.
Site catalog search security trimming. Here there are two camps: What is the Property Bag? Well, every object in the SharePoint API has a Properties property. It is a hash table or table of key/value pairs where a developer can read and write custom values. There are a lot of properties on the SPWeb object used by SharePoint.
When did Microsoft stop using the property bag?
Yes, years, because we have been “solving” this “problem” since SharePoint 2003. You’d think Microsoft would have come up with an answer for this by now, but nope, not for lack of trying, but no. OK, in no particular order the requirements are: