How to search by content type in SharePoint?

How to search by content type in SharePoint?

Super quick blog post for you guys today. As I dive a little deeper into SharePoint 2013 search and search navigation functionality (which is pretty cool by the way) I ran into a little bug in the Query Builder when trying to create a Search Result by Content Type.

What are the search conditions for content search?

Keyword queries and search conditions for Content Search and eDiscovery 1 Searchable contact properties. The following table lists the contact properties that are indexed and that you can search for using Content Search. 2 Searchable sensitive data types. 3 Search operators. 4 Search conditions.

How is the content type specified in HTML?

It is used to encapsulate the boundaries of the multiple parts of the message. Often, the header boundary is prepended with two dashes and the final boundary has two dashes appended at the end. In a POST request, resulting from an HTML form submission, the Content-Type of the request is specified by the enctype attribute on the element.

How to use folder ID in content search?

If you just run the Get-MailboxFolderStatistics cmdlet in PowerShell to obtain a folder Id (instead of running the script in this article), a search query that uses that folder Id value will fail. You have to run the script to get the correctly-formatted folder Ids that can be used in a Content Search.

Why do I need a content type filter in SharePoint?

This is for 2 reasons: it ensures any library with content using the content type will be returned since once a content type is applied to a list/library, additional characters are appended to the end of the ContentTypeId

How to filter highlighted content by content type?

One important thing to know about filtering the Highlighted Content web part by ContentTypeId, is to ensure you are using the Contains qualifier and insert a wildcard after the end of the Id. This is for 2 reasons:

How to filter by content type in Office 365?

There are specific properties you can use to filter by content type. In a fresh new Office 365 tenant, these are the managed properties automatically generated for you relating to content types: Here’s an example of content in each of the 3 above managed properties: