Search schema and schema management
The search schema is a crucial part of SharePoint Online’s search functionality as it defines how information is indexed and queried in SharePoint Online. With schema customization, organizations can tailor the search results for specific needs – for example, by enabling sorting or refining capabilities to specific indexed site columns.
The search schema is built on crawled properties and managed properties. Crawled properties are pieces of information that are taken from the content that is indexed, such as the value of the site column on a list item or a part of a document content on a document library. Crawled properties are created automatically when the content is crawled – for example, a value of the Salary column is linked to a crawled property called ows_Salary. All the columns with the same name are linked to the same crawled property. Managed properties are used to define how content can be retrieved, queried, or...
