Support to create crawled and managed search properties

[matsla]

Is there any plan to support to create crawled and managed search properties in scope site collection and tenant?

[jansenbe]

@matsla : There are no individual APIs to create managed/crawled properties, the only API surface we have is CSOM based and allows you to extract the search configuration of a Tenant/Site/Web into an XML file and then using a similar approach that XML file can be re-applied to a Tenant/Site/Web.

See https://github.com/pnp/powershell/blob/b85297d68b51008e06bab0901562f2a9b2a75e94/src/Commands/Search/GetSearchConfiguration.cs and https://github.com/pnp/powershell/blob/b85297d68b51008e06bab0901562f2a9b2a75e94/src/Commands/Search/SetSearchConfiguration.cs for the PnP PS implementation.

We could include something similar in the Admin library if that can help with your scenario?

[matsla]

@jansenbe yes this can help out in my scenario. I need to move search configuration on site collection level to a target site collection on a different tenant.

[jansenbe]

@matsla : this is in progress, search configuration export methods are already done at tenant/site/web level, the import parts will come soon.

[jansenbe]

@matsla : the search configuration can now be exported and imported at web, site and tenant level. Under the covers this is realized by wrapping the needed CSOM APIs, to feature wise this works the same as in PnP Framework or PnP PowerShell. Will be part of the next nightly release and just in time for version 1.7 which we'll release this week.