Slides from my SharePoint session given on August 12 2011 at SharePoint Saturday The Conference in Washington DC titled "Leverage Search and Customize to your Brand within SharePoint 2010"
The Codex of Business Writing Software for Real-World Solutions 2.pptx
Leverage Search and Customize to your Brand within SharePoint 2010
1. Search Your Way to Success Leverage Search and Customize to your Brand within SharePoint 2010
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3. Background in SharePoint, WCF, Windows Workflow, InfoPath Forms Services, ASP.NET, ADO.NET, XML, XSLT, AJAX, JavaScript, and SQL
4. Numerous SharePoint engagements: Extranets, Intranets, Publicly-Facing Web Sites, Enterprise Search, Document Management, Web Part Development, and Custom Applications
65. Rollup Options: Content Query Web Part Provides a granular query language Polls live data Security trimmed/Audience filtered Styling requires touching system XSLT No paging support Can be slow Restricted to site collection
66. Rollup Options: Search Core Results Web Part Can aggregate any searchable content Can be styled on per instance basis Paging Support Highly performant Security trimmed/Audience filtered Data must be indexed
73. Build your own using “FullTextSqlQuery” objectThe Query: AND (ContentTypeName='Ratings' ORContentTypeName='Review‘) AND (CONTAINS(url, '/getinsurance/auto')) ORDER BY Write DESC
90. Crawling PDF files and TIFF Images PDF Files Install the 64-bit Adobe PDF iFilter on Indexing Server(s) Add a new file type for ‘pdf’ in the File Type interface under the Search Service Application within Central Administration Make the required RegEdit changes Perform an IISRESET & restart the search services TIFF Images using Optical Character Recognition Add Windows TIFF iFilter feature to Indexing Server(s) Enable TIFF OCR scanning through group policy on the indexing server Force TIFF IFilter to OCR every page in a TIFF document (Optional) Reboot the server and kick a full crawl
The enterprise search capabilities built in to SharePoint provide an easy win for organizations seeking to achieve a quick return on their SharePoint investment. This technical deep dive will include a discussion of search configuration best practices, strategies for maximizing SharePoint’s capabilities, and simple customizations that can take your search experience to the next level
Data can be crawled from SharePoint sites, file shares, folder structures or their CMS that users can not get to so easily SharePoint can search data in other sites as well
Sites that are nearer to authoritative sites have more relevancy. Authoritative sites can be defined from CAPeople search results are more relevant if the person I am searching for is nearer to me in the hierarchy
Linguistic Relevance includes spell checking, synonyms etc..
You could be changing the look and feel of CQWPs in other places..
Windows Server 2008 R2 provides a TIFF IFilter which can perform OCR on the TIFF images. To utilize this feature in SharePoint 2010 you only need to enable the feature in Windows and then make a small group policy update to the server.Able to find text in the compressed files but not in the uncompressed file.One thing to note… OCR is not 100% accurate and depends greatly on the quality of the TIFF image. Handwriting in a document will have a very low (or zero) recognition rate as will documents that have text on some colored backgrounds. Even with these limitations, enabling OCR for TIFF images can greatly increase the usability of scanned images in SharePoint.