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How to add custom fields to content search?
In our case, each Content document is a PDF of a contract and we created a Lookup field in Content to associate the PDF to the contract object. However, there is no way to see all the associations and hence hyperlink clickthru from a listing of Content to its related Contract. This is needed badly.
How to create a custom search result layout?
You can design the result layout for a custom vertical using the search layout designer. You can start designing the layout by choosing templates offered in the layout designer and using them if they fit your requirements. Or you can choose to edit these templates in various ways to fit your requirements.
How to add custom fields to Salesforce content?
Suggestion: Make Salesforce Content more consistent with rest of Salesforce and allow any or all custom fields to appear in the search results list. Rationale: If you’re adding custom fields to Content records, then you have a good reason to want to capture and hence report on this ‘custom’ information.
How to show snippets in search result layout?
ResultSnippet is the system property that acts as a placeholder property for the snippets generated for each Connector result. To show the snippets on the result layout, the ResultSnippet system property must be mapped to an appropriate field, for example Description, in the search result layout.
Is there a way to customize search results?
It doesn’t include any if statements, and hit highlighting is not applied. Here’s what you should do: Open the item display template that belongs to the result type for which you want to customize search results. In our Search Center scenario, this was TechNet content.
To display a custom icon for classic search results, here’s what you should do: Add the custom icon to a SharePoint Server library. Open the item display template that is referenced from the result type for which you want to display a custom icon. On a search page, enter a query that will trigger the new result type.