Sharepoint Calculated Column With Multiple Lines Of Text

You can use the following formulas to manipulate text, such as combining or concatenating the values from multiple columns, comparing the contents of columns, removing characters or spaces, and repeating characters. Change the case of text. To change the case of text, use the UPPER, LOWER, or PROPER function. Feb 02, 2012 Hi. I am using SharePoint 2010. I have a list with below columns: Column Name Data Type. 1) Description multiple lines of text. 2) Status Single line of text. I need to create a calculated column by concatenating these 2 columns. But when I try to create a calculated column, I am not able to see 'Description' column in the 'Insert Column' section. Jan 09, 2017 Step 2: Create a new “multiple lines of text” column. Unless you have it already, go ahead and create a new column (List Settings Create a Column) In the example below, I am setting up a column on a Task List web part, so I can track Task comments. Make sure to choose Multiple lines of text for the column type.

This is one of the challenges to SharePoint search content on a list from multiline field. Multi line text field cannot be indexed as it’s an Unsupported Column Type.

Indexing the field is separate from search crawling which is needed for search result. Make sure the column has a managed property which allows a column to be searchable, retrievable and quarriable.

I noticed an issue on a list with over 10000 lists items where content for multiline text was not working on list search page and not showing the required outcome whereas it shows the required result on the site search. So I believe that in a SharePoint list, multiple line content search do not working properly if list view threshold is over 5000 items.

Steps to Create Managed Property

First you need to create a site column and then create a Managed Property

1 – First create a site column for multi-line text field by going to site settings –> Web Designer Gallery –> Site Columns –> Create

2 – Create the site column and add it to a content type or SharePoint list.

3 – Add atleast one list item to the list, its important so it can create the crawled property for the body column. Now run full crawl on the list.

4 – Now go back to Site Settings –> Site Collection Administration –> Search Schema and click on New Managed Property.

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5 – Now select the add mapping properties

6 – Leave “Text” selected, also check Searchable, Queryable and Retrievable.

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7 – You can map multiple properties against this managed property to make sure you are fetching all the relevant columns.

8 – The crawled property is different depending upon what you named it. My column was called Body, so I found it under “ows_body”, “Body”, “ows_Body1” and “ows_Body_1”. I added multiple properties because I used body field in multiple lists.

9 – Now you can start the list index or wait for some time so search crawl can run automatically.

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Adnan is two time SharePoint MVP (Most Valuable Professional) with over 12 years of extensive experience with major expertise on SharePoint Server, Office 365, .Net Platform and Microsoft BI. He is currently working SharePoint Architect at FMT Consultants. He is MCT Regional Lead for Pakistan Chapter since 2012. He is working on SharePoint for past nine years and worked on different intranet/intranet solutions for private & govt. sector majorly in Gulf region, which include OOB and customized solutions. He is a trainer, technology evangelist and also speaks in community forums.
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