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1. 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

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

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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

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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

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

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

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Search Experience

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Search in Action Demo

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Executing Queries

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Executing Queries: KQL

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 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

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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>

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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();

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Query Debugging

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CSWP & Display Template Deployment

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• <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

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• 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

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Deployment Demo

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Scenarios

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

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Resources

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