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Slides from my talk on BCS and Search at Dev Connections 2013
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Fabian WilliamsSharePoint Architect
Planet Technologies, Inc.@fabianwilliams
Corey RothPrincipal Architect
Infusion@coreyroth
Surfacing your External Data using BCS in
SharePoint 2013
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COREY ROTH
Transplant to Houston, TX Principal Architect at Infusion
Development SP2 Apps for SharePoint 2013 Four-timeMicrosoft SharePoint MVP Specializing in ECM, Search, and apps
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WHERE IS FABIAN?
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FABIAN HAS CHICKEN POX!
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FABIAN WILLIAMS
• SharePoint Architect at Planet Technologiesin the Federal IW Practice
• SharePoint Community Activist• International Speaker
• SharePoint Saturday Speaker
• MS SharePoint Conference Speaker
• Avid/Incessant Blogger/Tweeter/Social Media Menace• @fabianwilliams
• http://www.sharepointfabian.com/blog
• Send him a tweet wishing him to get well soon!
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SOME CHANGES…
No Fabian = no alerts Talk will focus more on BCS and search
aspects now Feel free to leave…no hard feelings
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AGENDA
BCS Overview Configuring Search with BCS Customizing Search for BCS Search App
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WHY DO I CARE?
Line of Business integration is a great often unused SharePoint feature
Use SharePoint to search custom applications instead of writing your own
Allows global enterprise-wide search across SharePoint and applications
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BUSINESS CONNECTIVITY SERVICES (BCS)
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BCS OVERVIEW
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SUMMARY OF WHAT’S IN BCS
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LIMITATIONS AFFECTING BCS
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EXTERNAL CONTENT TYPES
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SECURE STORE
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BCS WITH SEARCH
Create models with SPD or Visual Studio
Be sure to configure a profile page site in BCS
Be sure and set Title column
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DEMOBCS Configuration
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SEARCH
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CONFIGURING SEARCH WITH BCS
Content Source – used to index BCS source
Full crawl required every time schema is changed
No security trimming by default Default content access account needs
permissions to: Database (read only)
BCS (Execute / Select in Clients)
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SEARCH SCHEMA
Defines what search can crawl, query, and refine on
Crawled properties – discovered during crawl Managed properties – usable by search 2013 - Defined at tenant, site collection, and
site level More granular and configurable in 2013
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SEARCH SCHEMA WITH BCS
Table columns mapped to crawled properties Map crawled properties to managed
properties to: Display values in search results
Query against values
Configure refinement
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MANAGED PROPERTIES - ATTRIBUTES
Searchable – included in full-text index Queryable – can be queried specifically Retrievable – can be displayed in search
results Refinable – used in refinement panel Sortable – built-in now! Safe – displayed for anonymous users Complete Matching – requires exact match
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DEMOSearch configuration with BCS
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DISPLAY TEMPLATES
Customize how individual search results look Allows BCS table columns to be shown in
search results Use managed properties marked with
Retrievable Managed as HTML snippets in Design Manager
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DISPLAY TEMPLATES
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DEMOSearching external content in SharePoint
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BUILDING A SEARCH APP
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QUERYING SEARCH
New Search REST API added Available at /_api/search/query
Use querytext parameter to query
Enclose query in single quotes
Example http://server/_api/search/query?querytext=’SharePoint’
Test directly in the browser
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REST + JAVASCRIPT
Assemble REST API URL Include path to REST API
Use KQL in querytext parameter
Use $.ajax() to execute query Include Headers: { “Accept”: “application/json;
odata=verbose” }
Retrieve search results from: data.d.query.PrimaryQueryResult.RelevantResults.Table.
Rows.results
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REST + JAVASCRIPT CODE
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SEARCH APP
Use JavaScript and REST API to search our BCS source
Result source used to pre-filter results for BCS
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DEMOBuilding an app to search external data
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RECAP
BCS Overview Configuring Search with BCS Customizing Search for BCS Search App
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RESOURCES
Search with REST and JavaScript
http://bit.ly/16LmtDj
BCS and Subscriptions
http://bit.ly/14ysPHe
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QUESTIONS?
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