How to setup Synonymous based search in SharePoint 2013
Scenario
Currently
we have achieved synonyms based search query and got relevant search results in
SharePoint 2013
Ex.
if I search for Vacation, Day Off, Holidays, Shutdown, as a keyword in
SharePoint Enterprise search, Holidays.xlsx file need to show in the search
result.
Solution
We
have to use a thesaurus file to specify synonyms for a single word or multiple
words that occur in queries. The query is expanded based on the entries in the
thesaurus. We have to create and maintain the thesaurus file in a system
external to SharePoint 2013 before we import it into SharePoint 2013 to make
the synonyms available to the search system.
Note : We can deploy only one
treasure in a single SharePoint farm
Format : csv file
Csv file format
Key,Synonym,Language
Holidays, Vacation,en
Holidays, Day Off,en
Holidays, Shutdown,en
Holidays, Ferien,de
Holidays, Freier Tag,de
Holidays, Herunterfahren,de
How to import csv to SharePoint Farm using Powershell
$searchApp = Get-SPEnterpriseSearchServiceApplication
Import-SPEnterpriseSearchThesaurus -SearchApplication $searchApp -Filename <Path>
