SharePoint Search Searchable site properties
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Searchable site properties
The table includes an example of the property:value syntax for each property and a description of the search results returned by the examples.
For a complete list of SharePoint properties that can be searched, see Overview of crawled and managed properties in SharePoint. Properties marked with a Yes in the Queryable column can be searched.
Property | Property description | Example | Search results | returned by the examples | ||
Author | The author field from Office documents, which persists if a document is copied. For example, if a user creates a document and the emails it to someone else who then uploads it to SharePoint, the document will still retain the original author. Be sure to use the user's display name for this property. | author:"Garth Fort" | All documents that are authored by Garth Fort. | |||
ContentType | The SharePoint content type of an item, such as Item, Document, or Video. | contenttype:document | All documents would be returned. | |||
Created | The date that an item is created. | created>=2021-06-01 | All items created on or after June 1, 2021. | |||
CreatedBy | The person that created or uploaded an item. Be sure to use the user's display name for this property. | createdby:"Garth Fort" | All items created or uploaded by Garth Fort. | |||
DetectedLanguage | The language of an item. | detectedlanguage:english | All items in English. | |||
DocumentLink | The path (URL) of a specific folder on a SharePoint or OneDrive for Business site. If you use this property, be sure to search the site that the specified folder is located in. | To return items located in subfolders of the folder that you specify for the documentlink property, you have to add /* to the URL of the specified folder; for example, documentlink: "https://contoso.sharepoint.com/Shared Documents/*" | For more information about searching for the documentlink property and using a script to obtain the documentlink URLs for folders on a specific site, see Use Content search for targeted collections. | documentlink:"https://contoso-my.sharepoint.com/personal/garthf_contoso_com/Documents/Private"documentlink:"https://contoso-my.sharepoint.com/personal/garthf_contoso_com/Documents/Shared with Everyone/*" AND filename:confidential | The first example returns all items in the specified OneDrive for Business folder. The second example returns documents in the specified site folder (and all subfolders) that contain the word "confidential" in the file name. | |
FileExtension | The extension of a file; for example, docx, one, pptx, or xlsx. | fileextension:xlsx | All Excel files (Excel 2007 and later) | |||
FileName | The name of a file. | filename:"marketing plan"filename:estimate | The first example returns files with the exact phrase "marketing plan" in the title. The second example returns files with the word "estimate" in the file name. | |||
LastModifiedTime | The date that an item was last changed. | lastmodifiedtime>=2021-05-01lastmodifiedtime>=2021-05-01 AND lastmodifiedtime<=2021-06-01 | The first example returns items that were changed on or after May 1, 2021. The second example returns items changed between May 1, 2021 and June 1, 2021. | |||
ModifiedBy | The person who last changed an item. Be sure to use the user's display name for this property. | modifiedby:"Garth Fort" | All items that were last changed by Garth Fort. | |||
Path | The path (URL) of a specific site in a SharePoint or OneDrive for Business site. | To return items only from the specified site, you have to add the trailing / to the end of the URL; for example, path: "https://contoso.sharepoint.com/sites/international/" | To return items located in folders in the site that you specify in the path property, you have to add /* to the end of the URL; for example, path: "https://contoso.sharepoint.com/Shared Documents/*" | Note: Using the Path property to search OneDrive locations won't return media files, such as .png, .tiff, or .wav files, in the search results. Use a different site property in your search query to search for media files in OneDrive folders. | path:"https://contoso-my.sharepoint.com/personal/garthf_contoso_com/"path:"https://contoso-my.sharepoint.com/personal/garthf_contoso_com/*" AND filename:confidential | The first example returns all items in the specified OneDrive for Business site. The second example returns documents in the specified site (and folders in the site) that contain the word "confidential" in the file name. |
SharedWithUsersOWSUser | Documents that have been shared with the specified user and displayed on the Shared with me page in the user's OneDrive for Business site. These are documents that have been explicitly shared with the specified user by other people in your organization. When you export documents that match a search query that uses the SharedWithUsersOWSUser property, the documents are exported from the original content location of the person who shared the document with the specified user. For more information, see Searching for site content shared within your organization. | sharedwithusersowsuser:garthfsharedwithusersowsuser:"garthf@contoso.com" | Both examples return all internal documents that have been explicitly shared with Garth Fort and that appear on the Shared with me page in Garth Fort's OneDrive for Business account. | |||
Site | The URL of a site or group of sites in your organization. | site:"https://contoso-my.sharepoint.com"site:"https://contoso.sharepoint.com/sites/teams" | The first example returns items from the OneDrive for Business sites for all users in the organization. The second example returns items from all team sites. | |||
Size | The size of an item, in bytes. | size>=1size:1..10000 | The first example returns items larger than 1 byte. The second example returns items from 1 through 10,000 bytes in size. | |||
Title | The title of the document. The Title property is metadata that's specified in Microsoft Office documents. It's different from the file name of the document. | title:"communication plan" | Any document that contains the phrase "communication plan" in the Title metadata property of an Office document. |