© 2015 Ascendum Solutions. All rights reserved. Welcome To Create Dazzling End-user applications using SharePoint Search Speaker: Bill Crider #sharepointcincy2015

© 2015 Ascendum Solutions. All rights reserved.

Welcome To

Create Dazzling End-user applications using SharePoint Search

Speaker: Bill Crider

#sharepointcincy2015

@SharePointCincy#SharePointCincy


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INDEX CONTENTDemonstration

Steps1. Open Central Admin2. Manage Service App3. Click on Content Sources under

Crawling on the left nav menu4. Add a New Content Source5. Run a full crawl6. Set up a schedule


Enterprise Search & SharePoint

• Search IS an application • SharePoint is a fantastic platform for

an Enterprise Search Portal• Key Reasons Search projects fail:

– No identified KPI’s– Not defining deliverables– Not including content quality– Changing Objectives

• #1 reason - Enterprise Search is not a project but a PROGRAM– Take small, measurable, consistent

steps toward enterprise search

Remainder of this Webinar focused on how you can configure SharePoint and related products to enable Enterprise Search….


Enterprise Search

Where are you in your search journey with SharePoint? We’re going to demonstrate how to configure and use the following techniques to improve Search within SharePoint:

• Indexed Content:• Indexing the Enterprise• File shares, 3rd party data,

databases• Metadata, Advanced Search:

• Targeting Results• Suggestions• Targeted Queries• Enable Refinements &

Ranking• Handling unstructured,

ungoverned data (Power of Visual Search)


INDEX CONTENTDemonstration

Steps1. Open Central Admin2. Manage Service App3. Click on Content Sources under

Crawling on the left nav menu4. Add a New Content Source5. Run a full crawl6. Set up a schedule


PARTITION CONTENTDemonstration

Steps1. Open Central Admin2. Manage Service App3. Click on Result Sources under Queries and

Results on the left nav menu4. Create a query to partition the content


TARGET CONTENT WITH QUERY TRANSFORMS AND RULES

Demonstration

Transforms1. Take the query the user enters

and add your own conditions to create a targeted result

Rules1. Do something with the

targeted result to make it useful

(easy to find, highlighted, recommendations, etc.)


QUERY SUGGESTIONSDemonstration

Steps1. Open Central Admin2. Manage Service App3. Click on Query Suggestions

under Queries and Results on the left nav menu

4. Check “Show Suggestions”5. Import text file(s)


SPELLING SUGGESTIONSDemonstration

Steps1. Open Central Admin2. Manage Service App3. Click on Search Dictionaries

under Queries and Results on the left nav menu

4. Enter terms under the group “Search Dictionaries”

Special Note: The Company Inclusions/Exclusions list will enable you to specifically set up the search engine to extract a list of companies from search results


COMPANY EXTRACTIONDemonstration

Steps1. Open Central Admin2. Manage Service App3. Click on Search Schema4. Find the Managed Properties

you want to extract company names from

5. Check the “Company Extraction” checkbox on the property page

6. Add the company terms to the metadata term store

7. Run a full crawl when complete


REFINED SEARCHDemonstration

2 methods1. Advanced Search2. Metadata/Properties


SEARCH APPLICATIONSDemonstration

Steps to create1. Authoring site collection2. Consuming site collection3. Activate the cross site publishing feature4. Create metadata columns5. Create a list – make it a catalog6. Connect to the list from the consuming site7. Configure Search web parts on the consuming site



Step 3 – Enable feature at the Site collection level



Step 4 – Create metadata columns



Step 5 – Set up the list as a catalog


Demonstration

Step 6 – Connect to the catalog


Demonstration

Step 7 – Configure Search parts on the consuming page


Demonstration

Step 8 – Add branding


Demonstration

Step 8 – Add branding


Demonstration


ANALYTICSDemonstration


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© 2015 Ascendum Solutions. All rights reserved. Welcome To Create Dazzling End-user applications using SharePoint Search Speaker: Bill Crider #sharepointcincy2015