When creating a new result type for SharePoint 2013 search, are there any additional steps to get it to show up as a refiner option on the left-hand side of my results page? I’ve followed many of the online tutorials, step-by-step, but I can’t get mine to show.
I’ve even just copied some of the existing Result Types without changing anything, and I still don’t see them.
I’m hoping this is simply a silly oversight on my part…any help would be greatly appreciated!
I am not sure if you really mean “result types” here? There is no option to select a result type in the Refinement web part. If you do mean this, then the Refinement web part shares its data with the Search Results web part and that is the web part you need to pick your Result Source in by clicking the “Change Query” button, then picking the Results Source in the first field on the “Basics” tab.
If you mean making specific columns of information available as a refiner, I am not sure my answer is “correct” but whenever I have issues with columns not being available in the refiner web part I make them into managed properties using the RefinableString01 or RefinableDate01 depending on the type of column. I don’t always understand why things I believe should be available as a refiner don’t appear so then I go with this approach instead. After your search has crawled your new refinable properties you should be able to add them in your Refiner web part.
This article is a pretty good step-by-step explanation of how to do so: https://technet.microsoft.com/en-us/library/dn794243.aspx
