Custom Search Result. Managed Property, Crawled Property and Display Created By field

Problem Description:

After users search using a custom result page, the “author” property would return the value of the Author Document Property in Word documents. e.g. for Word 2007, Click Office Button > Prepare > Properties.

The customer wanted to retrieve the Created By value from the list instead.

Our Solution:

Add a new Managed Property that will reference an out of the box Office:4(Text) Crawled Property.

Step 1 – Create a New Managed Property

1. In SSP, Search Administration, go to Search Settings > Metadata property mappings.
2. Create a new Managed property called “ItemCreatedBy“, Check the radio button – “Include values from a single crawled … specified”
3. Click OK
4. On the left navigation, select Crawled Properties > Click on Office Category
5. Heres the tricky part. As there are two Office:4(Text) properties, we need to select the correct one. Select any Office:4 property, and find the one that has Property Set ID = f29f85e0-4ff9-1068-ab91-08002b27b3d9
6. Once you have found the correct one, click Add Mapping and select our newly created manage property ItemCreatedBy
7. Run a full Crawl.

Step 2 – Customising Search Core Result

1. Go to your custom search page, and go to edit properties for the Search Core Result web part
2. Under Results Query Options, in the selected columns add a new Column Entry for ItemCreatedBy, e.g. <Column Name=”ItemCreatedBy”/> and click ok
3. Modify the XSL, the trick here is the make sure that when you reference your ItemCreatedBy, it must all be LOWERCASE, or it won’t work.  e.g. <xsl:value-of select=”itemcreatedby” />

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