Map search property metadata for people search (Office SharePoint Server 2007)

Applies To: Office SharePoint Server 2007

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Topic Last Modified: 2016-11-14

When you build a search scope for people search, you map the search property metadata to enable the people search to focus on selected information from the content index.

Before you perform this procedure, confirm that:

• You have read the topic Create a search scope for people search (Office SharePoint Server 2007).

• The system is running either the Standard or Enterprise version of Microsoft Office SharePoint Server 2007.

• You have applied the Infrastructure Update for Microsoft Office Servers (or subsequent service pack). For more information, see Description of the Microsoft Office Servers Infrastructure Update: July 15, 2008 (https://go.microsoft.com/fwlink/?LinkID=121886).

To map the search property metadata

Perform these procedures in the following order to check the search property metadata mappings and change them as needed.

Check the existing search property metadata mappings

1. On the Shared Services Administration Home page for the Shared Services Provider, in the Search section, click Search settings.

2. On the Configure Search Settings page, in the Crawl Settings section, click Metadata property mappings.

3. On the Metadata Property Mappings page, in the Use in scopes column, ensure that all of the properties that you want to use in the search scope are set to Yes. Also, in the Mappings column, the properties to be used in the search scope for people search must be prefixed with People:.

Change search property metadata mappings

1. To modify the settings for a property, in the Property Name column, point to the property that you want, click the down arrow that appears, and then click Edit/Map Property.

2. On the Edit Managed Property page, in the Mappings to crawled properties section, select one of the following:

   • Include values from all crawled properties mapped Select this option if you want values from all crawled properties to be mapped for a given document. A query for a property in a document in which all crawled properties are mapped returns a result if any of the crawled properties that are mapped match.

   • Include values from a single crawled property based on the order specified Select this option if you want only a single value mapped. When multiple crawled properties are mapped to a managed property, the one that is selected is the first in the list that has a value for a given document. You can reorder the list by using the Move Up and Move Down buttons.

3. Click Add Mapping. The Crawled property selection — Webpage Dialog box opens:

   1. In the Select a category list, click People.

   2. In the Select a crawled property list, click the property that you want to crawl. To search for a property in a long list, in the Crawled property name text box, type the name of the property that you are searching for, and then click Find.

      Note

      Do not prefix the property name with the category name People:. The category name is added automatically.

   3. Click OK.

4. In the Use in Scopes section, select Allow this property to be used in scopes, and then click OK.

   Repeat these steps to add mappings as needed.

See Also

Concepts

Manage metadata property mappings (Office SharePoint Server)