Office 365 MVP Benjamin Niaulin session on building search-driven site, understanding cross-site publishing.

1. Build a Search-Driven Site
Understanding Cross-Site
Publishing
Benjamin Niaulin
Sharegate

2. About this guy
! Benjamin Niaulin, MCT, MVP
▪ Sharegate
▪ http://en.share-gate.com
▪ benjamin.niaulin@share-gate.com
▪ Geek that lives in Montreal, Quebec, Canada

3. Agenda
! Existing SharePoint Pains
! What’s new with Search
! Understanding Crawls
! Crawled and Managed Properties 101
! Introduction to Cross-Site Publishing
! The Product Catalog not for Products
! Managed Metadata Navigation
! Search-Driven Sites

4. IS THIS
GOING TO
BE A DEV
SESSION?

5. BECAUSE I DON’T KNOW
HOW TO CODE EITHER!
BUT I HAVE TO DELIVER
SOLUTIONS IN SHAREPOINT
AND THEY HAVE TO LOOK
GOOD TOO
NO

6. SO WHAT ARE
YOU GOING TO
SHOW US IN
SHAREPOINT?

7. TO FIND AND
DISPLAY!

8. GOOD,
BECAUSE I AM
HAVING SOME
ISSUES IN
SHAREPOINT
2010

9. Showing data from multiple lists/libraries at
the same time
Change the date format in a list/library
Contextual Results
Changing the look of what we are seeing
Accessing information from other Site
Collections

10. 10
Previous Solutions
! Content Query Web Part
! Search
! Coding

11. <xsl:template name="dvt_1.noKeyword">
<span class="srch-description2">
<xsl:choose>
<xsl:when test="$IsFixedQuery">
<xsl:value-of select="$NoFixedQuery" />
</xsl:when>
<xsl:otherwise>
<xsl:value-of select="$NoKeyword" />
</xsl:otherwise>
</xsl:choose>
</span>
</xsl:template>
<!-- When empty result set is returned from search -->
<xsl:template name="dvt_1.empty">
<div class="srch-results">
<xsl:if test="string-length($SrchRSSLink) &gt; 0 and $ShowActionLinks">
<a type="application/rss+xml" href ="{$SrchRSSLink}" title="{$SrchRSSText}" id="SRCHRSSL" class=
<img style="vertical-align: middle;" border="0" src="/_layouts/images/rss.gif" alt=""/>
<xsl:text disable-output-escaping="yes">&amp;nbsp;</xsl:text>
<xsl:value-of select="$SrchRSSText"/>
</a>
Wonderful XSLT

13. YES!
I AM SAYING
THERE IS
SOMETHING
BETTER OUT
THERE

14. How
do we get here?

15. Demo
DISPLAY TEMPLATES IN ACTION
Looking at Display Templates used with Search Results Web Part to
show content in completely new and different ways. Showing the
possibilities of building Search-Driven Sites

16. DON’T GET
TOO
EXCITED

17. 17
Our Objective

18. FIRST…
What’s
CHANGED
in
SharePoint
2013?

19. SEARCH!
Best of FAST Search algorithms
Document Thumbnails
Query Language (FQL)
Architecture
Visual Best Bets User Segmentation
Metadata Extraction
Continuous Crawl
Analytics
Result Sources
Result Types
Query RulesDisplay Templates
Search Web Parts
Cross-Site Publishing
Product Catalog Search-Driven Sites

20. Content Search
Display Templates
No XSLT
Search Results
Result Sources
Result Types
Refinement
Search Driven
Sites

21. You’ll hear two very
often

22. FAST
&
Continuous Crawl

23. Continuous Crawl

24. ! Only works on SharePoint Content Sources
! By default runs every 15 minutes
! Set-SPEnterpriseSearchCrawlContentSource
! Once indexed, content appears almost right
away… like magic
24
The Real Continuous Crawl
! Lots of added
pressure on
the server

25. 25
Crawled
vs
Managed Properties

26. Crawled Property: Content & Metadata extracted
(document itself, url, Title, etc…)
Managed Property: Includes 1 or multiple mapped
Crawled Properties and exists in the Search Index.
Managed Properties are what SharePoint uses to Display Content.
Before anything in Search

27. POP QUIZ!
If I plan to use a
Search-related Web Part
to show my content
What kind of Property
should I use?

28. 28
MANAGED
PROPERTY

30. Demo
CRAWLED AND MANAGED
PROPERTIES
Taking a look at the Search Schema in the Central Administration
and Site Collection Settings to look at Crawled and Managed
Properties

31. 31
CROSS-SITE PUBLISHING
AND THE PRODUCT
CATALOG

32. 32

33. 33

35. 2
Site Collection Templates
Site Collection Templates
working together

36. 36
Site Columns, Content Types,
Term Store, Lists

37. Let’s begin!
Prepare
Products Lists

38. Demo
PREPARING THE PRODUCT LIST
A look at the Site Collection Template and the lists configured to be
enabled as Product List for use with a Publishing Site

39. and so...
the journey
begins
Assign
Product List
as Catalog

40. Demo
ASSIGNING A LIST AS A
CATALOG
Assigning the prepared list as a product catalog for the search to
recognize it and make it available in publishing sites. Looking at all
the options when turning it on and explain their impacts. Launch a
Full Crawl.

41. Why?
What are the benefits?

43. Let me show
you instead

44. Demo
CONNECTING A PRODUCT
CATALOG TO A PUBLISHING SITE
Connecting a product catalog to a Publishing Site and explaining
what happened to the site.

45. 45
Category and Item Page
! Pages get created automatically with
Content Search customized and
configured
! Recommend creating your own
! You can create as many as you want and
change the navigation to point to these
new ones

46. 46
Content Search Web Part

47. Display Templates

48. HTML
CSS
JS
NO XSLT

49. Product
49

50. Demo
LOOK AND FEEL WITH DISPLAY
TEMPLATES
Dive into the pages created and their web parts to explain how the
Display Templates are applied and use Managed Properties. Apply
Look and Feel

51. ok so I
may have
prepared
this before

52. Good
Work

53. More Info
! Follow me: @bniaulin
! Over 30 helpful links: http://en.share-
gate.com/blog/learn-about-sharepoint-
different-topics
! Blog: http://en.share-gate.com/blog

54. Thank you for attending!
Benjamin Niaulin
Sharegate