How to configure people search webpart

People search webpart provides two different configuration capabilities which are

• Designs
• Settings

Designs

In this section, you can configure the look and feel of the component. By default, the product provides the following designs but administrator users can configure additional ones via JSON definition.

• Card
• Filmstrip
• List

These out of the box designs apply for each of the 3 posible layouts which have the same name as OOTB designs.

Settings

In this section, you can configure the following properties on the webpart:

Search properties

This is the most advanced configuration. It lets user to retrieve specific search managed property values to visualize them in the designs of the component.

{
  "searchProperties": {
    "employeeNumber": "MPemployeeNumber"
  }
}

The left-hand side of the property represents the name used to retrieve property values in the product API call. The right-hand side corresponds to the existing managed metadata property within the SharePoint search schema.

Use Wildcard

Wildcard indicates whether people searches can take into account a subset of characters of the full text to search.