How To Create a Custom Searchable User Profile Property

Open Microsoft 365 Admin Center and select SharePoint in the list of admin centers.

In the SharePoint Admin Center, go to More features and select Open under the User profiles heading.

Select Manage User Properties under the People heading.

Click New Property on the command bar to open the new property form.

Set the name and type of the new property.

To make the property searchable, make sure the following settings are configured:

Default Privacy Settings — Everyone:

Check Indexed:

To show the property on the user profile in Delve, also check:

• Show in the Profile Properties section of the user's profile page
• Show on the Edit Details page

In the SharePoint Admin Center, go to More features and select Open under the Search heading.

Select Manage Search Schema under the Search heading.

Select New Managed Property on the toolbar.

Once the new indexed public user profile property is created, the crawler automatically creates a crawled property related to it. To retrieve the stored data and search by the property value, you need to create a new managed property mapped to that crawled property.

Set the name and type of the managed property, and check the following fields:

• Searchable
• Queryable
• Retrievable

Click Advanced Searchable Settings and set the Full-text index property to PeopleIdx:

Click Add a Mapping, find the crawled property, and select OK:

Click OK to save the changes.

Wait until the SharePoint Search crawler picks up the new managed property.

Once the new managed property is available, you can reference it as a custom attribute for the Employee Details pane. For a full walkthrough of the details pane configuration, see KB10199. Customize Employee Details Pane.