Maximilian Melcher is a managing consultant at Alegri International Services who specializes in SharePoint technologies like search, social computing, and collaboration. In this document, he discusses the changes to search in SharePoint 2013, including new web parts, display and hover templates, query rules, and the content enrichment web service. He also notes new support for tools to work with the search REST API and better diagnostics for debugging display templates.

1. Search-driven apps with SharePoint 2013
what‘s possible with the new plattform?
Maximilian Melcher| Managing Consultant| 14. April 2013

2. Maximilian Melcher
Maximilian Melcher (MCITP, MCPD) is a Managing Consultant for Alegri International Services in
Munich, Germany. Max is a specialist in SharePoint technologies focused on search, social
computing, web content management and collaboration. Max has led SharePoint implementations
for Dax 30 companies since 2009. Max’s free time is spent on twitter mostly with a good coffee in
his hands.
Twitter: @maxmelcher
Blog: Melcher.it
Email: Maximilian.Melcher@alegri.eu
Toolbox: sharepointtoolbox.de
www: http://alegri.de

3. About Alegri
 Foundation year: 2001
 225 employees (DACH region)
 8 locations
 One of the biggest Microsoft-
and Unite- (SAP & Microsoft)
partners in Germany
 60+ of DAX 100 companies
are our costumers
 Consulting Excellence in Microsoft
Enterprise Solutions
 http://www.alegri.eu (<= SP2013)

4. Search in SharePoint 2013
 Are there any relevant changes?

5. Tue 9:00am - SPC063 - Customizing Search Experiences in SharePoint 2013
Mon 3:45pm - SPC202 - Search Architecture in SharePoint 2013
Tue 10:30am - SPC044 - Crawl and Index all Enterprise Content with
SharePoint 2013 Search
Tue 10:30am - SPC125 - Hybrid and Search in the Cloud
Wed 9:00am - SPC143 – Making Great Search Based Applications with Query
Rules in SharePoint 2013
Wed 5:00pm - SPC145 – Optimize Search Relevance in SharePoint 2013

6. Tue 3:15pm - SPC230 - Step by Step: Building Search Driven Applications with
SharePoint 2013 - Speaker: Scot Hillier
Tue 9:00am - SPC063 - Customizing Search Experiences in SharePoint 2013
Speaker: Kerem Yuceturk
Tue 5:00pm - SPC172 - Overview of Capacity Planning, Sizing and High Availability for
Search in SharePoint 2013 - Speakers: Barry Waldbaum, Olaf Birkeland
Wed 9:00am - SPC143 - Making Great Search Based Applications with Query Rules in
SharePoint 2013 - Speaker: Pedro DeRose
Tue 5:00pm - SPC203 - Search Content Enrichment and Extensibility in SharePoint
2013
Speakers: Runar Olsen, Kathrine Hammervold

7. Wed 10:30am - SPC231 - Step by Step: Search Development in SharePoint 2013
Speakers - Andrew Wardly, Matt King
Wed 10:30am - SPC117 - How to Manage and Troubleshoot Search: A Practical Guide
Speakers: Darrin Allred, Ed Barnett, Agnes Molnar
Wed 1:45pm - SPC095 - Effective Search Deployment and Operation in SharePoint
2013 - Speakers: Darrin Allred, Knut Brandrud
Wed 3:15pm - SPC049 - Custom Security Trimming for Search in SharePoint 2013
Speakers: Morgan Larsson, Sveinar Rasmussen
Wed 5:00pm - SPC145 - Optimize Search Relevance in SharePoint 2013
Speakers: Jan Inge Bergseth, Victor Poznanski
Wed 3:15pm - SPC150 - Microsoft Early Learning: Moving Search to O365 and
Building a Hybrid Experience - Speaker: Rene Sanchez Almaguer

8. Search-Driven Apps
 Search-driven apps are applications utilizing the search index to query data and present them.
 Examples in SharePoint 2013:
□ My Tasks
□ Sites I can access
□ News
□ Newsfeed
□ …

9. Search Driven Apps
 Pro
□ Easy to implement
□ Fast response times
□ Cross-Site / Cross-Webapp / Cross-Farm
 Con
□ Content-Freshness => invest in hardware
□ Content must be indexed (of course)
What sites can
I access ?

10. Continuous crawling
SP2010 SP2013

11. Pre RTM Rumors…
 Doc-Push API?
□ Nope.

12. New WebParts
 Many new WebParts
 You need ECALs for the good ones

13. Example: Content Search WebPart
 Wizard-based
 7 Display modes
□ Diagnostic mode!
 Query Variables
 Enterprise CAL only!

14. Display Templates
 Html & JavaScript
 You can debug display templates!!!

15. Hover Templates
 Html & Js
 Custom Hover Templates
 Customizable Action pane

16. Query Rules
 Intention-based
 Query parsing
□ Lots of options…

17. Content Enrichment Web Service (CEWS)
 Read more: http://blogs.msdn.com/b/sharepointdev/archive/2012/11/13/customize-the-
sharepoint-2013-search-experience-with-a-content-enrichment-web-service.aspx

18. Custom Connector
 Possible
 Lots of work
 Documentation -> not available.
 If you still wanna do it: start with the MyFile Connector:
http://code.msdn.microsoft.com/office/SharePoint-2013-MyFileConne-79d2ea26

19. Import / Export Settings

20. Tool-Support
 REST
 Many parameters
 Very detailed output
 https://sp2013searchtool.codeplex.com/ - oder „cinst SearchQueryTool“ via http://chocolatey.org

21. Questions?

22. Maximilian Melcher
Twitter: @maxmelcher
Blog: Melcher.it
Email: Maximilian.Melcher@alegri.eu
Toolbox: sharepointtoolbox.de
www: http://alegri.de
Thanks!