Office documents stored in
SharePoint 2010 which have their title field populated show an incorrect title
in the default search results. The screen shot below shows the search results
for the following document:
Filename: Test document 1.docx
The title that is displayed as the
link to the document at the top of the individual search result is the first
line of text from the document, not the title (metadata) field. If title field
for the document is not set, the filename is displayed as the link to the
document at the top of the individual search result, not the first line of text
from the document.
As per Microsoft it is normal behavior
as it tries to give you more relevant result to your search.
To correct this behavior:
- Edit the ‘EnableOptimisticTitleOverride’ key and modify
its value to 0:
- Open registry editor
- Navigate to HKLM\SOFTWARE\Microsoft\Office
Server\14.0\Search\Global\Gathering Manager
- Restart the SharePoint Server Search 14 service at
admin command prompt.
1. net stop osearch14
2. net start osearch14
- Repeat the above steps for all SharePoint servers in
the farm.
- Perform a full crawl on the SharePoint content
source(s)
Once the full crawl has completed,
performing the search again gives the title field as the search result title
for a document which has the title field populated
The following can be copied into a
.reg file to automate setting the key, or the key could be set using
PowerShell:
Windows Registry Editor Version 5.00
[HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Microsoft\Office
Server\14.0\Search\Global\Gathering Manager]
"EnableOptimisticTitleOverride"=dword:00000000
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