DepartmentID Managed Property - Breaking change

Last Updated on 2022-05-05 14:26:29 UTC

Summary

We are currently aware of an issue that is affecting SharePoint search. It is relation to the out of the box managed property DepartmentID. The managed property is no longer returning results when queried.

Currently, this is impacting: Content Creation, Universal Web Part with search as the data source, potentially Azure Funcitons, Navigation Management, and Multilingual.

If your customers are impacted by this please lodge a ticket with Microsoft from the customers tenant.

Latest updates

Date (UTC) Status
2022-5-5 at 4:30 PM In consideration of the Intranet 4.0 release and because Microsoft is rolling out a fix for their breaking change, we have decided not to provide a fix for Valo Intranet 2.2.
2022-5-4 at 11:30 AM We are analysing with the team whether creating a fix for Valo Intranet 2.2 is still viable.
2022-4-28 at 8:00 AM Fix for Valo Intranet 2.3 now available via Fast Lane.
2022-4-27 at 5:00 PM For clarity, only Customers with Valo Intranet 3.1 will get the fix via Fast Lane. Customers using Valo Intranet 2.3 don't have this fix yet, however, we will work to fix it for version 2.3 too.
2022-4-27 at 4:30 PM We have created fixes / workarounds to make sure the Valo components work under Valo Intranet 3.1. Today, we will release through the Fast Lane (v3.1) fixes for: Content creation (might require local storage cleanup), Missing content inside Universal Web Part, Missing secured navigation items (however, we can still observe issues with securing/unsecuring navigation items).
2022-4-26 at 3:00 PM Unfortunately, the previous workaround for a similar issue reported many weeks ago that uses "reindexing" doesn't work for this problem.
2022-4-26 at 12:00 PM We started to get tickets/reports about the search not working.

Products affected

Product name Version Comments
Valo Intranet All versions We are currently aware of an issue that is affecting SharePoint search. It is relation to the out of the box managed property DepartmentID. The managed property is no longer returning results when queried.

Expected availability of fix

Fixes shipped for Valo Intranet 3.1 and 2.3.