SHAREPOINT 2013 SEARCH – A DEVELOPER’S PERSPECTIVE

Ryan McIntyre

MCITP, MCPD

Director, Portals & Collaboration

• SharePoint 2013 Search Overview– Changes from 2010

• Search Solutions• OOTB Web Parts Review• API

– Server side

– Client side

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SCENARIOS

Powerful Engine

2013 SEARCH INTRO

FAST Index FS4SP 2010

Search2013

Search

2013 SEARCH ARCHITECTURE

HTTPFile sharesSharePointUser profilesLotus Notes DocumentumExchange foldersCustom - BCS

SharePointSP AppsDevicesNon-SP UX

SearchAdmin

Content UX

CrawlContentProcessing Index

QueryProcessing WFE

API

AnalyticsProcessing

FAST Search Index

Public API

Unit of scale/role boundary

Feeding Chain Index Core

Query Chain

Analytics Service

• 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

• Query Transforms– Web Parts (3)

– Query Rule (2)

– Result Source (1)

• Result Source– Scope +

– Federated +

• CSWP

CORE BUILDING BLOCKS

• Result Type– How to display types of

results

• Display Templates– CSWP

– Hover Panel

– Refiner

– Search Results

CORE BUILDING BLOCKS

SEARCH EXPERIENCE

Query Rules – what’s “on sale”

today?

Display Template – show an image with

a description

Result Types – when content class =

merchandise use my display template

Result Source – catalog of items

Recommendations – People who viewed this also

viewed thatPersonal Query

History – what did you find before?

Refiners – used for faceted

navigation

EXECUTING QUERIES

EXECUTING QUERIES: KQL

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,Rank'

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'

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: CSOMClientContext 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

SCENARIOS

Ryan McIntyre

ryan.mcintyre@neudesic.com

http://blog.randomdust.com

@ryanmcintyre

303-520-6337

• http://sp2013searchtool.codeplex.com/

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