Friday, October 9, 2015

Add Refiners for your Site Collection(Part 1)



Here are some OOB neat Feature you could use to make your SharePoint Sites more searchable for our user.

First we need create a Content type which we could add to our Site.




For this sample I am going to put a country property in my Site Collections. In our Content Type Hub Site go to our Site Settings


Once you're in the Site Settings Page find and select the "Site content types" under the "


This will redirect to the page where all content type is created. Click on the Create to Start Creating our Content type.

Kindly put in the Name of the content type we wanted. For the "Select parent content type from" select "Document Content Type" and for the "Parent Content type" kindly select the "Basic Page".



Click OK to save your changes. Once our Content type is created we may now start adding the Site Columns we wanted. Click on the "Add from new site column" link to start adding Site Columns to our Content type.

We will be a Site Columns in our Content type.

  • Global Funding Source
This will be choice fields with the following choice

  • Funding Source1
  • Funding Source2



Click OK to save our Site Column. This will redirect you back to our newly created Content Type, for now we will save this content type to all our Site Collection. Click and select the "Manage publishing for this content type" link.

Once the page had loaded select the "Publish" and then hit save.



Wait for 10-30 minutes for the Content type to be cascaded to all our site collection(Defending of the number of Site Collection in our Farm).



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