Step 1

Go to SharePoint 2013 Central Administration.

Click the Start menu, then click Microsoft SharePoint 2013 Products and click SharePoint 2013 Central Administration

Step 2

Click Manage Service Applications under Application Management.



Step 3

Click your Search Service Application.



Step 4

The following screen will appear.



Step 5

Click Crawl Rules under Crawling from the left panel.



Step 6

Click New Crawl Rule for including contents.



Step 7

Enter the path of the specific SharePoint list. Here I have crawled for the employee details list.



Step 8

Select the “include all items in this path” option from the crawl configuration and click the OK button.



Step 9

The following screen will appear.



Step 10

Again go to crawl rules for exclude contents and click the new crawl rule.



Step 11

Enter the path as in the following. Select the “Exclude all items in this path” option from the crawl configuration. Then click the OK button.



Step 12

The following screen will appear.



Step 13

Now go to the content sources.



Start Full Crawl



After a successful crawl, try some keyword search in your site collection. The search results only comes from a specific list only.



Summary

In this article we learned how to crawl the specific lists for the SharePoint 2013 search service.