The document discusses social refiners that can be added to search experiences to filter results based on social distance. It provides examples of creating a department refiner to filter by the author's department and a "fake" refiner that filters results based on the user's social connections, like colleagues. The document demonstrates building these types of social refiners, how to retrieve social data to power them, and potential improvements like caching.

2. Social Refiners
Mikael Svenson –Principal Consultant
@mikaelsvenson–mikael.svenson@puzzlepart.com –techmikael.blogspot.com

3. Pre-requisites
•A good understanding of search (FQL helps)
•A good understanding of Display Template logic
•Programming skills –JavaScript

4. Agenda
•Define social refiners
•Create a Department refiner for content
•Create a “fake” refiner to filter on social distance

5. Copy of query I wrote in 2009
(<100>amsterdam) OR (<50>"dutchcapital" OR "veniceof the north") OR (<30>"coffee shop city")
IN CONTEXT(<30>location=@Home AND <50>device=smartphone AND <20>freshness=30days AND <50>hobby=SHAREPOINT)

6. Let’s start with something easier
•“Close to you”
•Someone you work with –social distance
•Static approach (based on structure)
•Same department –department already a refiner for people
•Same leader
•Dynamic approach (based on actions)
•Office graph
•Those you follow
•Cross boundaries

7. First things first
•People search –change the model to get social distance
•Default model will put a high emphasis on organization level

8. Page Render Cycle
•Page renders
•Control/item template starts rendering
•Loops over data
•Outputs HTML in DOM
•PostRenderfunctions
•No control which web part renders first
•How do you know if something is in the DOM?

9. DEMO: Department refiner
•Explain logic
•OR refiner using OOB functions
•Go over the code
•Wrap output in function, render once JS is done
•Batch lookup department per author
•Map and render
•Issues with 2010 content, display name vs login

10. DEMO: Documents by me / close
•Explain logic
•Refiner which is not a refiner –no count
•Extend .jsto allow FQL
•Explain the road to discovery
•Explain how the # works, over to query
•.debug files
•IE 2048 issue
•Show FQL
•Get user -> department -> colleagues
•Alternative, use graph query + those you work with
•Level 1 and level 2 colleagues?

11. Improvements
•Caching could be an idea!

12. Summary
If you don’t know which refiner to put on your page, try a social one so people can narrow down to content which are more likely useful to them based on social distance

14. Q & A