2. Agenda
History of SharePoint Search
Architecture of Search in SharePoint 2013
Search Centre
Result Sources
Result Types
Display Templates
Query Rules
Content Enrichment
Recommendations
Recap
4. History of SharePoint Search
There has been Search available in SharePoint
since SharePoint 2001 and all future versions.
FAST Search and Transfer Acquisition in 2008…
Two Search Product Options for SharePoint 2010
SharePoint Server 2010 Search
FAST Search Server 2010 for SharePoint
One Search Product Option for SharePoint 2013!
8. Search Engine Basics
1. Connect to and crawl content
2. Process the content
3. Store the content in an index
4. Execute search queries against the
index
5. Retrieve Results
6. Display the results to the user
13. Result Sources
Replacement for 2010 Scopes + Federated
Locations
Apply a query transform to return a corpus subset
Can be created in Service Application, Site
Collection and Site levels
Used when defining a new Search „Vertical‟
Create a new Search Results page and applying
the Result Source to it to create a search
experience
14. Result Types
Each Search Result Item is rendered differently
Each Item Uses a different Display Template
No more XSLT, use HTML and JavaScript
17. Query Rules
Replaces 2010 Search Keywords
and Best Bets
Used to understand user intent
and deliver a targeted user
experience
Query Conditions Query
Actions
Query Publishing
25. Content Enrichment Web Service
Used for Entity Extraction
Replacement to the FAST Search Document
Processing Pipeline / Processing Pipeline
Extensibility
For each item that is crawled:
- The file / properties can be passed to a web service.
- The web service contains custom code which can
create new managed properties that are stored in the
index.
Powerful for extensibility
26. Content Enrichment Web Service
You can run code against crawled data and pass
data to other systems to:
- CRM/ERP and other Line-of-business systems
- Geocoding
- OCR
- Audio and Video Transcription
- „Deep‟ Search of raw data
29. Recap – Key Takeaways
One NEW Search Engine based on
FAST & SharePoint Search
Search requires more servers
Search Centre is overhauled and
improved
Significant UI enhancements –
previews
Query Builder in many places
30. Recap – Key Takeaways
Result Sources – Replaces
scopes & federated locations
Result Types – Configure
different Display Templates for
individual results
Display Templates – Define how
an item is rendered with HTML
and JS
31. Recap – Key Takeaways
Query Rules – Replaces keywords
and best bets
Intent based search experience.
When conditions of a query rule
trigger are met:
- Add promoted results
- Add result blocks
- Change Result Rank
32. Recap – Key Takeaways
Result Sources, Result
Types, Query Rules & Search
Schema can be managed at
many levels
- Search Service Application
- Site Collection
- Site
33. Recap – Key Takeaways
Content Search Web Part – Cross
Site Collection Aggregation!!!
Content Enrichment – Can be used
for property extraction - powerful
extensibility
Recommendations – Recommends
based on analysis of user behaviour
Talk about your personal History with SP and MCMSFAST Acquisition $1.2B in 2008What is good about FAST, your opinion, extensibility, Configurability, entity extraction
First world problems
It is a new Search productIt draws on it’s SharePoint + FAST AncestryContains new enhancements not available in predecessorsEngine is FAST based, and due to awesomeness requires separate servers, so SP 2013 requires more servers.
Talk about each
Perform some searchesExplain verticalsDemo the Hover PanelPeople SearchVideo Search
Do searches in VerticalsTalk about document previews