Developer's introduction to SharePoint Search Customization and Development.

1. Developers Introductionto SharePoint Search SharePoint Saturday Virginia Beach Mike Oryszak January 8th, 2011

2. Practice Manager with Intellinet Microsoft SharePoint Server MVP Dev and Architect with MS stack since 1996 Working with SharePoint since 2002 Raleigh-Durham, NC Area since 1998 About Me

3. Search Overview Review of features and Concepts Search Site and Web Parts Review components of Search and Results pages Customize Search and Result pages Overview of Search API Possible Solutions Session Overview

4. Search Overview Developers Introduction to SharePoint Search

5. Crawling A scheduled activity that indexes the content, meta-data and security. Index Processed info Extremely fast compared to querying source content Search Overview

6. Managed Properties Can be used to query against a specific attribute 100+ by default, more can be added Examples: Author ContentType CreatedBy LastModifiedTime DocId FirstName Search Overview Managed Properties

7. Content Classes Searches based on Object Type Great for filtering down the potential resultset Examples: SPSPeople STS_Site STS_Web STS_list_[doccumentlibrary] * STS_listitem_[documentlibrary] * * Note name in brackets can be replaced with template name Search Overview Content Classes

8. Query Formatting Limit – 255 characters Content Classes - ContentClass:Value Managed Properties - Property:Value Logical Operators - AND, OR, NOT, +, - Relational Operators - <, >, <=, >=, <> Filename – filename:”name” File Type – filetype:value Wildcards – Property:Partial Value Example: “ContentClass:STS_Web AND Blog” Would return all Webs that have “Blog” in the meta-data. Search Overview Query Formatting

9. People Search Queries the attributes in the User Profile store Used to find individual not content Similar to content search, but not tied to a specific site Search Overview People Search

10. Search Site and Web Parts Developers Introduction to SharePoint Search

11. Search Site and Web Parts

12. All Web Parts from the Search and Results Page are available Including: Paging Results Related Queries Best Bets Statistics Summary Search Site and Web Parts Out of the Box Web Parts

13. Search Results XSLT for both Content and People can be fully customized Queries can be preset to create dynamically generated content on sites Search Site and Web Parts Out of the Box Web Parts

14. Demo! Search Site and Web Parts Out of the Box Web Parts

15. Search API Developers Introduction to SharePoint Search

16. Server Microsoft.Office.Server.Search.Query Foundation Microsoft.SharePoint.Search.Query Search API Namespaces

17. KeywordQuery – Simplified Queries Property:Value – similar to standard search in UI Search API KeywordQuery

18. FullTextSqlQuery - Supports rich, SQL-like queries SELECT <columns>FROM <content source>WHERE <conditions>ORDER BY <columns> Conditions FREETEXT() CONTAINS() Search API FullTextSqlQuery

19. Example SELECT LastName, FirstName, JobTitle, Title, accountname FROM SCOPE() WHERE (quot;scopequot; = 'People') AND CONTAINS(JobTitle, 'Manager') AND NOT CONTAINS(Department, '1099') Selects specific fields from people where JobTitle = Manager but does not include ‘1099’ because they are a contractor Search API FullTextSqlQuery

20. Demo! Search API Search API Demo

21. Uses for Search Developers Introduction to SharePoint Search

22. Rich Content Interactions Interacting with Very Large Lists & Libraries Listing Department members Content Without Site Boundaries Cross-site navigation with security trimming Aggregating content Uses for Search

23. Wrap-up Developers Introduction to SharePoint Search

24. MSDN SharePoint 2010 Resource Center http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/sharepoint/bb964529.aspx Content Classes in SharePoint Search http://nextconnect.blogspot.com/2010/04/content-classes-in-sharepoint-search.html My Search Blog Posts http://nextconnect.blogspot.com/search/label/Search Additional Resources

25. Questions?

26. Contact Info Blog - http://nextconnect.blogspot.com Twitter - @Next_Connect Email – nextconnect@live.com LinkedIn - http://www.linkedin.com/in/michaeloryszak