SharePoint Search Crawled Properties Variant Types

by Cory Peters on December 11, 2009 in Blog with 4 Comments Tweet

If you ever need to create SharePoint managed properties through code then you’re going to be asked for a Variant Type. Since I couldn’t find an enum in the code or any documentation to identify them I started digging through the SharePoint UI and was able to hunt down the following. Hopefully it will save the next person some time.

Read more about programmatically creating managed properties via MSDN.

Variant Type	Data Type
31	Text
20	Integer
11	Yes/No
12	Binary Data
64	Date/Time

Cory Peters

I'm a public speaker and the Chief SharePoint Architect for Eastridge Technology, a Microsoft Gold Competency Partner in Winston-Salem, NC. I focus on the SharePoint platform with a specialty in Information Architecture, Internet Facing and Mobile applications.

Tagged: Search, SharePoint Server 2007, Tip

4 Comments on "SharePoint Search Crawled Properties Variant Types"

1. david says:

   May 23, 2011 at 11:23 am

   Thank you Great !
2. Basti says:

   May 29, 2011 at 2:25 am

   Thanks, helped a lot
3. Cory says:

   May 29, 2011 at 11:44 pm

   Thanks guys! Glad it helped.
4. Dave Crabtree says:

   July 26, 2011 at 11:19 am

   Decimal?