1. SharePoint Saturday Utah – 19 Jan 2013
Owen Allen
V.P. Solutions
Pingar

2.  Painful
 Who has a beautiful (non-painful) metadata story to share?
 Document Library and List Columns
 Site Columns
 Content Types

3.  Term Store
 Term Groups
 Term Sets

4.  Sugar?
 Oil?
 When and where?

5.  Before a document column can be used in a search results page, a crawl is
necessary.
 Crawled Properties
 Managed Properties

6.  Names make columns simpler to use.
 Sometimes, too simple can add difficulty.
 Spaces in Column Names
 “ProductName” vs. “Product_Name” vs. “Product Name”
 Look for the property named:
ows_{YourColumnName}({YourColumnType})
i.e. ows_CompanyRegion(Text)
Or
ows_Company_x0020_Region(Text)

7.  Difference between SearchCenter and SearchResults
 Is Site included?
 Search Center site template
 Search Results in Team Site template

8.  Search Core Results web part
 Edit the Fetched Properties property
 Search Refinement Panel web part
 May need a text editor for this one!
 This is a series of <Categories> in an XML file.
 Order of Categories is determined by placement in this file.

9.  1. Define your Library Column
 “Company Region” Choice: „Western Region‟, „NorthEast Region‟, SouthEast Region‟, etc.
 2. Crawl
 3. Create a new Managed property
 Central Admin -> Application Management -> Manage Service Apps -> Server Service
Application -> Metadata properties
 4. Edit Search Results Page web parts
 A. Core Search Results
 B. Refinement Panel
 5. Crawl

16. Blogs
 ThreeWill.com – Will Holland
 SharePointAnalystHQ.com – Michal Pisarek

17. Owen Allen
Pingar
Email: Owen.Allen@Pingar.com
Twitter: @owenallen