SharePoint 2013 has FAST search built into its core fabric. New site templates and web parts have been added to allow you to build search driven applications. Through these search web parts, we can cross site collection boundaries to surface information, improve navigation and create a seamless experience across the different sites, site collection and web application. We will also demonstrate how to use the catalog connections to expose data across the farm. Attendee Takeaways: 1. Understanding the new native power of SharePoint 2013 search. 2. Learn to configure the content by search web part. 3. Use the content catalog for making data available across the farm. 4. Enable search driven navigation with the term store.

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SharePoint 2013 Catalog Sites
Build a SharePoint 2013 Search Driven Application
Brian Culver ● SharePoint Fest Chicago ● October 2013 ● SRC203

2. About Brian Culver
• SharePoint Solutions Architect for Expert Point Solutions
• Based in Houston, TX
• Author
• SharePoint 2010 Unleashed
• Various White Papers
• Speaker and Blogger

3. Session Agenda
• What is a Search Driven site?
• The Components and Building Blocks
• Catalog Architecture
• Content By Search Web Part
• Display Templates
• Query Builder
• Query Rules
• Managed Navigation

4. What is a Search Driven Site?
A site driven by search … right?
Examples:
• Best Buy
• Amazon
Core Concepts
• Navigation Driven by metadata
• Published Content is the focus
• Site Structure very simple

5. What makes it “Search Driven”?
Q: “Don’t most web sites
already have Search?”
A: Yes
“It’s not about searching
what we have published, it
about publishing,
republishing and targeting
content that we have
crawled…”

6. Cross-Site Publishing
1. Content is created in libraries and lists that are shared as catalogs in the
authoring site collection.
2. The search system crawls the content and builds the search index.
3. A user views a page on a publishing site, which triggers queries from
Search Web Parts.
4. Results are returned from the search index, and shown in Search Web
Parts on the page.

7. Advantages of a Search Driven Publishing Model
Breakdown site
collection
boundaries
Eliminate large list
thresholds
Allows for flexible
& dynamic
publishing
Separate
presentation from
storage

8. The Blocks of the Search Driven Publishing Model?
Content
Search Web
Parts
Display
Templates
Query Builder
Query Rules
Content
Catalogs
Managed
Navigation

9. Product Catalog Template

10. Catalog Architecture

11. Catalog Architecture
Adaptive experiences empower web developers to create portals
based on managed navigation and a few dynamic pages
Friendly URL
http://contoso.com/cameras
TERM STORE
NAVIGATION
TAXONOMY
Audio
Audio
Cameras
Cameras
Computers
Computers
Home appliances
Home appliances
Phones
Phones
TV and video
TV and video
CONTENT SEARCH WEB
PART
Filter query by
CATEGORY: Cameras
Search
Use page
maincategory.asp
x
Microsoft Confidential

12. Catalog Architecture
Adaptive experiences empower web developers to create portals
based on managed navigation and a few dynamic pages
Friendly URL
http://contoso.com/computers
TERM STORE
NAVIGATION
TAXONOMY
Audio
Cameras
Computers
Home appliances
Phones
TV and video
CONTENT SEARCH WEB
PART
Filter query by
CATEGORY: Computers
Search
Use page
maincategory.asp
x
Microsoft Confidential

13. Content Types & Site Columns
• Content Types
• Site Columns

14. Product Content Type

15. Content Search Web Part
Content Search
Web Parts

16. Content Search Web Part
Content Search
Web Parts

17. Search Driven Content Web Parts

18. Display Templates
• Many options OOTB
• Create your own

19. Display Templates
Many ship Out-of theBox
Make your own in HTML
& JavaScript
Display Templates

20. Query Builder
UI based
IW focused
Allows
“advanced
mode”
Add Refiners
Query Builder
Provides
Test &
Preview

21. Query Rules
Query Rules
UI based
Manipulate
Search
Results
IW focused

22. Content Catalog
Integrated with
Search
Available across
Farms
Content
Catalogs
Product Catalog
Site Template
1a. Enable
A settings on a
List or Library
2. Index
Define URL
Format
Select Nav
structure
1b. New
3. Connect

23. Term Set Settings

24. Term Set Navigation

25. Build your Navigation Term Set
• Product Hierarchy

26. Products List

27. Catalog Settings..

28. Catalog Settings..

29. Content Catalog
Catalog Enabling
Catalog Connection

30. Managed Navigation
New Nav
Provider
Terms can be
site
structures
Managed
Navigation
Friendly URLS
1:1 binding of
Site
Collection to
Term Set
Product
Catalog
integration

31. Managed navigation
• Drive your navigation and URLs
based on Term Store hierarchies
• Clean URLs for actual end users
• www.contoso.com/careers
• www.contoso.com/aboutus
• Define settings for navigation
in terms store manager
• Provides also dynamic topic
pages capability for minimizing
amount of physical pages for catalog
type sites

32. Refiners and faceted navigation
• Define refiners for catalog content
drill down in catalog drive scenarios
• Provides easy filtering capabilities
for catalog information
• Content editors can define which
managed properties are available as
refinements
• UI rending can be customized for
each refiner
• Different data types have different
rendering options

33. Cross Site Publishing
“Create content in an Authoring environment and use it
in any one of your SharePoint publishing
environments.”
URL
manipulation
Multilingual
Cross Site
Publishing
Multi-branding
Authoring and
Production tiers
Flexibility in
Page Content
Things to know:
1. This is not content
deployment
2. Requires the
Publishing feature
3. Requires a Catalog

34. Cross Site Publishing
Why XSP?:
1. Need to Publish >1 location
2. Need a multilingual site
3. Need to separate authoring
and publishing

35. Steps for Configure a Catalog Site
1. Create site collections for cross-site publishing.
2. Import list content into the Product Catalog Site Collection.
3. How to enable a list as a catalog.
4. Set up search and enable crawling of your catalog content.
5. Connect your publishing site to a catalog.
6. Upload and apply a new master page to a publishing site
7. Upload page layouts and create new pages in a publishing site
8. Assign a category page and a catalog item page to a term
9. Configure the query in a Content Search Web Part on a category page
10. Configure the query in a Content Search Web Part on a catalog item page
11. Upload and apply display templates to the Content Search Web Part
12. Plan and Configure to use refiners for faceted navigation
13. Add refiners for faceted navigation to a publishing site
14. Add a Taxonomy Refinement Panel Web Part to a publishing site

36. Product Catalog Demo

37. New Site Search Admin Tasks

Just to summarize, here are things site admins can do to manage search
themselves:
Task
Create and/or override Query Rules, including Promoted Results
Create and/or override Result types and display templates
Create and/or override Result Sources, either for remote locations
or as a custom search “vertical”
Create managed properties
Create refiners
Start a local crawl – can even be done down to the list level
Site
Collection
Admin
Site Admin

38. Useful Links and Resources
• Technet Import Scripts
http://gallery.technet.microsoft.com/Import-list-content-to-f735d7fb

39. Questions
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?

40. Constructive Feedback Is Appreciated
Brian – Your
presentation
was …
Thanks!
Good
Demos!
Great information,
but would like to
have learned more
about [Insert Topic]

41. Brian Culver, MCM
Twitter:
@spbrianculver
E-mail:
brian.culver@expertpointsolutions.com
Blog:
http://blog.expertpointsolutions.com/
Thank you!