An out of the box SharePoint Server 2010 installation shows six
refiners or “Categories” including Result Type, Site, Author, Modified
Date, Managed Metadata columns, and Tags in the refinement panel webpart
on the content search page.
The refinement panel webpart provides a summary of search results and enables users to filter results (See Refinement Panel Overview)
Figure Search refiners in SharePoint 2010
In SharePoint Server 2013 you will get a different set of default
refiners File Type, contentClass, ContentTypeId, WebTemplate,
DisplayAuthor and LastModfiedTime. The way that these search refiners
are being rendered is determined by the display template which is
selected. This makes it a lot easier to modify the refinement panel.
You will find the different search refiner display templates which are
being used in the master page gallery underneath /Display
Templates/Filters/ (The full URL will be something like
http://yoursharepoint/_catalogs/masterpage/display templates/filters/)
If you look for example at the standard Refinement Item display
template, you will also see why why the contentClass, ContentTypeId and
WebTemplate are not shown in the search refinement panel.
A common question that you might get when upgrading from SharePoint
2010 to SharePoint 2013 is how to add the Tags refiner back in the
refinement panel. This is actually pretty simple, just go to the
refiners preview panel and add in the same managed property
ows_MetadataFacetInfo.
One of the changes in SharePoint Server 2013 is the fact that refiner counts are not shown anymore by default. Fortunately it is actually quite easy to change this again. You can modify the display template of the refiners – the only thing you have to change is, setting the ShowCounts value to true.
The final result should look like this. If you need to repeat this step on multiple search centers you can use the PowerShell enable refiner count in SharePoint 2013
The refinement panel webpart provides a summary of search results and enables users to filter results (See Refinement Panel Overview)
| Refiners (SP2010) | Managed Property |
| ResultType | FileExtension |
| Site | SiteName |
| Author | Author |
| Modified Date | Write |
| Managed Metadata Columns | ows_MetadataFacetInfo |
| Tags | ows_MetadataFacetInfo, popularSocialTags |
One of the changes in SharePoint Server 2013 is the fact that refiner counts are not shown anymore by default. Fortunately it is actually quite easy to change this again. You can modify the display template of the refiners – the only thing you have to change is, setting the ShowCounts value to true.
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