This is part III in my series about using TaxonomyFields in SharePoint 2010. In this part I will talk about how to search TaxonomyFields. I will show how to set up the metadata properties and how to search TaxonomyFields programmatically. This post continues on my previous posts about this subject:

Introduction

Part I: Declaration and initialization

Part II: Using taxonomyfields programmatically

Part III: Searching taxonomy fields (you are reading it!)

Managed Properties

To use our taxonomyfields in SharePoint search they need to be available in the managed properties of the farm. This works a little bit different with TaxonomyFields than with other fieldtypes. In this example I use the custom contenttype created in part I of this series and make the contained TaxonomyField “My taxonomy field” searchable using SharePoint search.

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