1. INTRODUCTION TO SHAREPOINT 2013 SEARCH
AND CREATING DYNAMIC CONTENT
MANAGEMENT SOLUTIONS
Ryan McIntyre
MCITP, MCPD
Director, Portals & Collaboration
@ryanmcintyre

3. • SharePoint 2013 Search Overview
– Changes from 2010
• Search Solutions
• OOTB Web Parts Review
• API
– Server side
– Client side
• Packaging & Deployment
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4. SCENARIOS

5. Powerful Engine
2013 SEARCH INTRO
FAST
Index FS4SP
2010
Search
2013
Search

6. 2013 SEARCH ARCHITECTURE
HTTP
File shares
SharePoint
User profiles
Lotus Notes
Documentum
Exchange folders
Custom - BCS
SharePoint
SP Apps
Devices
Non-SP UX
Public API
Unit of scale/role boundary

7. • Content Source
• Search Schema
– Now available through
site administration
• Query Rule
– Customization of returned
results
– Captures
Intent, composed of
• Query Condition
• Query Action
• Publishing Options
CORE BUILDING BLOCKS

8. • Query Transforms
– Web Parts (3)
– Query Rule (2)
– Result Source (1)
• Result Source
– Scope +
– Federated +
• CSWP
CORE BUILDING BLOCKS

9. • Result Type
– How to display types of
results
• Display Templates
– CSWP
– Hover Panel
– Refiner
– Search Results
CORE BUILDING BLOCKS

10. SEARCH EXPERIENCE

11. SEARCH IN ACTION DEMO

12. EXECUTING QUERIES

13. EXECUTING QUERIES: KQL

14. EXECUTING QUERIES: REST
 Keywords
 http://server/site/_api/search/query?querytext='{KQL Query}‘
 Selecting Properties
 http://server/site/_api/search/query?querytext='test'&selectproperties='Title,Ran
k'
 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

15. 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>

16. 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();

17. QUERY DEBUGGING

18. CSWP & DISPLAY TEMPLATE DEPLOYMENT

19. • <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

20. • 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

21. DEPLOYMENT DEMO

22. SCENARIOS

23. Ryan McIntyre
ryan.mcintyre@neudesic.com
http://blog.randomdust.com
@ryanmcintyre
303-520-6337

24. • http://sp2013searchtool.codeplex.com/
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