SharePoint 2013 Search and Creating Dynamic Content Management Solutions

SharePoint 2013 Search and
Creating Dynamic Content
Management Solutions
Ryan McIntyre
MCITP, MCPD
National Architect
@ryanmcintyre

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• SharePoint 2013 Search Overview
• Changes from 2010
• Search Solutions
• OOTB Web Parts Review
• API
• Server side
• Client side
• Packaging & Deployment
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Scenarios

Powerful Engine
2013 Search Intro
FAST
Index FS4SP
2010
Search
2013
Search

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

Core Building Blocks
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

Query Transforms
Web Parts (3)
Query Rule (2)
Result Source (1)
Result Source
Scope +
Federated +
CSWP

Result Type
How to display types of
results
Display Templates
CSWP
Hover Panel
Refiner
Search Results

Search Experience

Search in Action Demo

Executing Queries

Executing Queries: KQL

 Keywords
 http://server/site/_api/search/query?querytext='{KQL Query}‘
 Selecting Properties
 http://server/site/_api/search/query?querytext='test'&selectproperties='Title,
Rank'
 Sorting
 http://server/site/_api/search/query?querytext='test'&sortlist='LastModifiedTi
me:descending'
 http://server/site/_api/search/query?querytext='test'&sortlist='LastModifiedTi
me:descending,Rank:ascending
Executing Queries: REST

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>

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();

Query Debugging

CSWP & Display Template Deployment

• <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

• 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

Deployment Demo

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

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