---
title: "How To Create Custom Searchable User Profile Property"
description: "Vitextra Employee Directory web part supports custom attributes both for Azure AD and SharePoint User Profiles data sources. 	This guide is intended to provide you necessary steps to create new searchable user profile properties, which can be used as additional custom attributes in the Employee Directory web part."
url: https://vitextra.com/en/support/kb/how-to-create-searchable-user-profile-property
language: en
published: 2021-08-28
modified: 2021-09-03
products:
  - "Employee Directory"
---

# How To Create Custom Searchable User Profile Property

**Tools:** Microsoft 365 Admin Cetner

Vitextra Employee Directory web part supports custom attributes both for Azure AD and SharePoint User Profiles data sources. 	This guide is intended to provide you necessary steps to create new searchable user profile properties, which can be used as additional custom attributes in the Employee Directory web part.

## 1. Open SharePoint Admin Center

![Open SharePoint Admin Center](https://static.vitextra.com/articles/50004/step1.png)

Open [Microsoft 365 Admin Center](https://admin.microsoft.com/AdminPortal/Home#/alladmincenters) and select SharePoint in the list of admin centers.

## 2. Open User Profiles Settings

![Open User Profiles Settings](https://static.vitextra.com/articles/50004/step2.png)

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

## 2. Open User Profiles Settings

![Open User Profiles Settings](https://static.vitextra.com/articles/50004/step2.png)

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

## 3. Open List of User Properties

![Open List of User Properties](https://static.vitextra.com/articles/50004/step3.png)

Select **Manage User Properties** under *People* heading

## 4. Create new User Profile Property

![Create new User Profile Property](https://static.vitextra.com/articles/50004/step4.png)

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

## 5. Configure the User Profile Property

![Configure the User Profile Property](https://static.vitextra.com/articles/50004/step5.png)

Set name and type of the new property.

📝 **Note**  
You can’t change type of the user property after it has been created.

To make the property searchable ensure the following settings:

**Default Privacy Settings** - **Everyone**:

![Default Privacy Settings](https://static.vitextra.com/articles/50004/step5-display-settings.png)
*Default Privacy Settings*

Check **Indexed**

![Indexed Custom Property](https://static.vitextra.com/articles/50004/step5-indexed.png)
*Indexed Custom Property*

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**

![Display Settings of User Custom Property](https://static.vitextra.com/articles/50004/step5-display-settings.png)
*Display Settings of User Custom Property*

## 6. Open Search Settings

![Open Search Settings](https://static.vitextra.com/articles/50004/step6.png)

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

## 7. Open Search Schema Settings

![Open Search Schema Settings](https://static.vitextra.com/articles/50004/step7.png)

Select **Manage Search Shema** under *Search* heading.

## 8. Create new Managed Property

![Create new Managed Property](https://static.vitextra.com/articles/50004/step8.png)

Select **New Managed Property** on the toolbar.

## 9. Map Managed Property to the new profile property

![Map Managed Property to the new profile property](https://static.vitextra.com/articles/50004/step9.png)

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.

📝 **Note**  
It takes from 15 minutes to 4 hours for the new property to appear in the crawled properties list.

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*:

![Managed Property. Advanced Settings](https://static.vitextra.com/articles/50004/step9-advanced-settings.png)
*Managed Property. Advanced Settings*

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

![Managed Property. Mapping](https://static.vitextra.com/articles/50004/step9-mapping.png)
*Managed Property. Mapping*

Click **OK** to save changes.

## 10. Use new Custom Attribute

![Use new Custom Attribute](https://static.vitextra.com/articles/50004/step10.png)

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

💡 **Tip**  
It may take up to 24 hours to update search schema.

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