2. Bio
SharePointConsultant with Premier Logic
Former SharePoint MVP (2010)
Development focused
http://www.tonytestasworld.com
awtesta@gmail.com
Twitter: @awtesta
3.
4. What was
available in
SharePoint
2010?
Scopes / Rules / Crawled Properties / Managed Properties
Central Admin / Search Service
Some site/site collection specific options
Heavily XML/XSLT based to customize results
SQL Syntax and KQL syntax
5.
6.
7. What’s new for
search in
SharePoint
2013
Search greatly improved, FAST incorporated
Search Syntax
FQL – FAST Query Language
KQL – Keyword Query Language
SQL Syntax is gone
Continuous Crawling
Result Sources replace scopes
DisplayTemplates allow for HTML/JS customization
Results
Hover Panels
Search box
Refiners
No more XML/XSLT!
Site/SiteCollection/Cental Admin config options
Crawled properties auto promoted to Managed Properties
8. Anatomy of a
search request
1. Applying anyWeb Part transforms.
2. Applying any query rules.A query rule action can either transform
the original query or it can trigger a parallel query that is
transformed for a result block.
3. Applying any query transforms on result sources.
4. Parsing the query and creating a query syntax tree for internal use.
5. Processing the query linguistically by performing word breaking,
stemming, spelling correction, and synonym expansion.
6. Appending user-access information to the query.This specifies the
user who is performing the query and the permissions that the
user has.
7. Sending the query to the search index or another search provider.
8. Collecting and merging search results from all search providers
and sending them back to the query processing component.
9. Evaluating the search results against result types. If a result
matches a particular result type, the result is displayed by using
the display template that you have specified for the result type.
10. Applying additional security trimming, if appropriate.
9.
10. ResultSource
Replace 2010 Scopes
PerTechNet: "In SharePoint Server 2010, scopes and federated
locations provided ways to limit searches to a certain set of
content or subset of search results. In SharePoint Server 2013,
result sources replace scopes and federated locations.“
When a user issues a query, the search system associates the
query with a result source to provide search results.
There are 16 pre-configured result sources
11. Query
Transforms
Part of Result Sources
Allows you to “transform” the users incoming query so that its
more specific and returns only desired content
Example: LocalVideo Results
{searchTerms?} {?path:{Scope}}
{?owstaxIdMetadataAllTagsInfo:{Tag}}
(ContentTypeId:0x0120D520A808* OR
(SecondaryFileExtension=wmv OR SecondaryFileExtension=avi OR
SecondaryFileExtension=mpgOR SecondaryFileExtension=asf OR
SecondaryFileExtension=mp4OR SecondaryFileExtension=oggOR
SecondaryFileExtension=ogv OR SecondaryFileExtension=webm))
12. ResultTypes
Main point of this talk
PerTechNet: A rule that causes distinct kinds of search results to
be displayed in different ways
One or more characteristics or conditions to compare each search
result against, such as the result source or content type of the search
result
A display template to use for search results that meet the
conditions.The display template controls the way in which all results
that meet the conditions appear and behave on a search results
page.
31 OOTB result types
MicrosoftWord, Microsoft PowerPoint,
Video,PDF,Person,SharePoint List
13. Query Rules
Allows admins to help respond to the intent of a users query
Help the users to help themselves
example
If a rule is met, additional actions can be performed
Add Promoted Results
Add Result Blocks
Change result rankings
Can be configured with publishing settings
Set rules to expire
Could be helpful in internet publishing site scenarios
15. Display
Templates
Allow for customizing search results granularly
Very extensible
Imagination is the only real barrier
Lots of 3rd party options; jQuery, Knockout, etc.
Types
Item
Hover Panel
Refiners
Search Box
HTML/Javascript based
No more XSLT !
Uses Client-side Rendering (CSR)
Similar to new masterpages, you edit the HTML and JS files is
generated for you
Can be leveraged in search results as well as content search web part
17. What can/can’t
be done in
Display
Templates
What can be done
Localization
Client side code
Calling web services
Css style
What can’t be done
I’ve noticed some issues when you want to use the tenant/site
collection admin; have to leverage existing managed props if you
want a refinable or sortable prop
20. What is the ctx
object and
what does it
do?
Best explanation I have at the moment is that it’s a “context”
object that has the properties for the result
Best to look at it in chrome by adding “debugger;” line
Where to go for documentation
????Google seems to be of no use
Look at OOTB templates for MS uses
21. What is the
Srch.U object /
namespace
Similar to the ctx object, I don’t have a great answer
Best to look at it in chrome by adding “debugger;” line
Seems to have helper methods
You can learn a lot by looking at debugger output
Where to go for documentation
????Google seems to be of no use
Look at OOTB templates for MS uses
22. When in
doubt, look at
OOTB
templates
There are ~ 90 OOTB templates that you can look at
25. What can/can’t
be done on
Office 365
What can be done
Most of basic search stuff I’ve shown
Sources/Types
Modifying look and feel of results
DisplayTemplates, Hover Panels, Refinement
What can’t be done
External calls with jQuery /customWCF service may not work or may
be more trouble than they are worth
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