Issue with Refiners in Sharepoint 2013

Question

hi everyone,
I have created a few new columns in my sp site in post list. i created single line text type column,peoples and groups type column and date type columns. after crawling and assigning a managed property to all the crawled
properties when i use the refiners in my search page, all the column datas are shown properly except for the peoples and groups column type.. when i give multiple values for single line type column, the refiners correctly picks up each single value as different
values in the refiners but when i give multiple values for  my peoples and groups column, it does not differentiate the different groups and so it shows the multiple groups as a single group in my refiners.....i gave many crawls and index resets but still
this problem persists.. what to do?

Answer 1

Hi FNF
When you create custom user property and crawl the data then your crawled property will have PropertySetId to "00130329-0000-0130-c000-000000131346" which is default sharpeoint
But if you see the user property which are shown in refiners they have PropertySetId "ed280121-b677-4e2a-8fbc-0d9e2325b0a2"
Due to this reason you get all values in single line in refiners.
the solution is you need to create crawled property using powershell and then map to the managed property.Following is the code to create crawld property.
New-SPEnterpriseSearchMetadataCrawledProperty -Name $crawledProperty -SearchApplication $searchapp - -IsMappedToContents $true -PropSet ed280121-b677-4e2a-8fbc-0d9e2325b0a2 -IsNameEnum $false -Category SharePoint