SharePoint 2013 Search and Creating Dynamic Content Management Solutions

SharePoint 2013 Search and Creating Dynamic Content

Management Solutions

Ryan McIntyreMCITP, MCPD

National Architect@ryanmcintyre

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• SharePoint 2013 Search Overview• Changes from 2010

• Search Solutions• OOTB Web Parts Review• API

• Server side• Client side

• Packaging & Deployment

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Powerful Engine

2013 Search Intro

FAST Index FS4SP

2010 Search

2013 Search


2013 Search Architecture

HTTPFile sharesSharePointUser profilesLotus Notes DocumentumExchange foldersCustom - BCS

SharePointSP AppsDevicesNon-SP UX

SearchAdmin

Content UX

Crawl

ContentProcessing Index

QueryProcessing WFE

AP

I

AnalyticsProcessing

FAST Search Index

Public API

Unit of scale/role boundary

Feeding Chain Index

CoreQuery Chain

Analytics Service


Core Building Blocks

Content SourceSearch Schema

Now available through site administration

Query RuleCustomization of returned resultsCaptures Intent, composed of

Query ConditionQuery ActionPublishing Options



Query TransformsWeb Parts (3)Query Rule (2)Result Source (1)

Result SourceScope +Federated +

CSWP



Result TypeHow to display types of results

Display TemplatesCSWPHover PanelRefinerSearch Results


Search Experience

Query Rules – what’s “on sale”

today?

Display Template – show an image with

a description

Result Types – when content class =

merchandise use my display template

Result Source – catalog of items

Recommendations – People who viewed this also

viewed thatPersonal Query

History – what did you find before?

Refiners – used for faceted

navigation


Search in Action Demo


Executing Queries


Executing Queries: KQL


Keywords http://server/site/_api/search/query?querytext='{KQL Query}‘

Selecting Properties http://server/site/_api/search/query?

querytext='test'&selectproperties='Title,Rank'

Sorting http://server/site/_api/search/query?

querytext='test'&sortlist='LastModifiedTime:descending' http://server/site/_api/search/query?

querytext='test'&sortlist='LastModifiedTime:descending,Rank:ascending'

Executing Queries: REST


Executing Queries: REST

<d:RelevantResults m:type="Microsoft.Office.Server.Search.REST.RelevantResults"> <d:RowCount m:type="Edm.Int32">16</d:RowCount> <d:Rows m:type="SP.SimpleDataTable"> <d:Rows> <d:element m:type="SP.SimpleDataRow"> <d:Cells> <d:element m:type="SP.KeyValue"> <d:Key xml:space="preserve">Rank</d:Key> <d:Value xml:space="preserve">29.4688339233398</d:Value> <d:ValueType xml:space="preserve">Edm.Decimal</d:ValueType> </d:element>


Executing Queries: CSOM

ClientContext ctx = new ClientContext("http://sharepointonline/site");

var query = new KeywordQuery(ctx, ctx.Site);query.QueryText = "Search terms";query.ResultTypes = ResultType.RelevantResults;query.Id = Guid.NewGuid();var queries = new KeywordQuery[1];queries[0] = query;SearchExecutor searchExecutor = new SearchExecutor(ctx);var rcc = searchExecutor.ExecuteQueries(queries);ctx.ExecuteQuery();


Query Debugging


CSWP & Display Template Deployment


• <cringe>Design in UI</cringe>• Export• Visual Studio solution

• Create “host” page• Add markup for CSWP from export• Properly escape ‘{‘, ‘}’, and quotes in DataProviderJSON property

CSWP Development & Deployment


• Create HTML file and verify results in UI• Export JS• Visual Studio solution

• Include JS• Deploy to “_catalogs/masterpage/Display Templates/Content Web

Parts”• {Optionally, deploy HTML (not JS) and programmatically update file

post-deployment to generate JS}

Display Template Development & Deployment


Deployment Demo


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Ryan [email protected]://blog.randomdust.com

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SharePoint 2013 Search and Creating Dynamic Content Management Solutions