Adding Custom Search Suggestions in SharePoint 2013

By default search suggestions are enabled on the default search boxes in SharePoint 2013.

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Server administrators are still able to manually add search suggestions via PowerShell, but the commands have been changed a little.

Check out the following blog post how to do it in SharePoint 2010.

The command that has been changed is the New-SPEnterpriseSearchLanguageResourcePhrase. This cmdlet now has a new required parameter named Owner.

Technet information about Owner: “Specifies the search object owner that defines the scope at which the corresponding LanguageResourcePhrase is created”.

This Owner parameter is also used in the Get-SPEnterpriseSearchLanguageResourcePhrase.

The Available levels that can be used are:

• Search Service Application: SSA;
• Site Subscription: SPSiteSubscription;
• Site Collection: SPSite;
• Site: SPWeb.

You need to run the following commands to create search suggestions:

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$searchapp = get-SPEnterpriseSearchServiceApplication
$owner = Get-SPEnterpriseSearchOwner -level SSA

New-SPEnterpriseSearchLanguageResourcePhrase -SearchApplication $searchapp -Language En-Us -Type QuerySuggestionAlwaysSuggest -Name "Suggestion 1" -Owner $owner

Start-SPTimerJob -Identity "Prepare query suggestions"