Exclude allitems.aspx from search results

Question

I have a site which contain a few lists. When I search something in my site then it returns following result:

http://server/Lists/Mylist/Allitems.aspx
http://server/Lists/MyList/DispForm.aspx?ID=34
http://server/Lists/Mylist

I only want to display DispForm.aspx in search results and EXCLUDE AllItems.aspx and other views.

I set following crawl rule in CA but it excludes all results and doesn't bring anything when searching something.

http://*/AllItems.aspx

I searched on this topic and each person is telling a different story. Some say to define query rule some say to define result sources, some say this, some say that etc.

What is sure fire way of doing this?

Answer 1

I had gone through the same exercise and a good post by Mikael Svenson on doing just that helped me.

If you append -contentclass:STS_List_* to your query template within the query rule or result source, these views will all be excluded. In effect all list landing pages will be removed including:

• AllItems.aspx
• AllPages.aspx
• AllPosts.aspx
• AllCategories.aspx
• Calendar.aspx
• Overview.aspx

His blog post is available here

The way to get to the query builder for a Result Source is

Go to Search Administration in CA --> Result Sources --> New Result Source

Click Launch Query Builder