How To Create Custom Searchable User Profile Property

Open Microsoft 365 Admin Center and select SharePoint in the list of admin centers.

In SharePoint Admin Center go to More Features and select Open under User Profiles heading.

In SharePoint Admin Center go to More Features and select Open under User Profiles heading.

Select Manage User Properties under People heading

Click New Property on the command bar to open new property form

Set name and type of the new property.

To make the property searchable ensure the following settings:

Default Privacy Settings - Everyone:

Check Indexed

To show up the property on user profile in Delve, check the following settings:

• Show in the Profile Properties section of the user’s profile page
• Show on the Edit Details page

In SharePoint Admin Center go to More features and select Open under Search heading

Select Manage Search Shema under Search heading.

Select New Managed Property on the toolbar.

Once new indexed public user profile property is created, the crawler automatically creates crawled property related to the profile property. To make it possible to retrieve data stored in the property and search with the property value, you need to create new managed property mapped to the crawled property.

Set name and type of the property and check fields listed below:

• Searchable
• Queryable
• Retrievable

Click Advanced Searchable Settings and set the Full-text index property to PeopleIdx:

Click Add a Mapping, find the crawled property, and select OK:

Click OK to save changes.

Wait until SharePoint Search crawler pick up the new managed property.

Once the new managed property is available, you can reference it as a custom attribute for the Employee Details pane.