SharePoint Search: Excluding Columns from Search Results SharePoint empowers users to manage and organize vast amounts of data efficiently. However, not all data within a SharePoint site might need to be searchable. Do you miss the functionality to control visibility of sensitive or irrelevant information in column. The Challenge You might have encountered instances where you need certain columns in your SharePoint lists or libraries to be excluded from search results.

Crawled date fields from SharePoint Online are mapped to string properties which make it hard to apply a date filter on search results. If the filter EndDateOWSDATE is used in a Content Search Web Part, it won’t work as the mapped property EndDateOWSDATE is of type text -EndDateOWSDATE :1900-01-01..{Today} Instead the crawled property ows_EndDate can be mapped to any out of box refinable date properties, i.e. RefinableDate00 and the filter will work.