Learn how to customize search in SharePoint 2013

1. Search Customizations

2. Customizations
• Display Templates
• Query Rules, Result Sources, Result Types
• Segmentation
• Search Result Web Part
• Customized Search Result Web Part
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3. Display Templates
• Control
– Search Results
– Refiners
– Column UI
• Pattern:
– Control List
• Group
– Item
• Render after all items are rendered using
– http://blogs.perficient.com/microsoft/2012/09/quick-tip-display-templates-and-
jquery-plugins-in-sharepoint-2013/
• AddPostRenderCallback(ctx, function()
{
}
• Render individual values
– http://blog.jussipalo.com/2013/03/sharepoint-2013-overriding-value.html
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4. Segmentation
• Define user segment terms
• Define query rules
– Add segments which apply to that query rule
• Create a custom web part (inherits from CBSWP)
• Override OnLoad function
– Get the user specific content
– Get the corresponding term for the user’s content
– Set the term ID in the data provider’s property bag with the key
“UserSegmentTerms”
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5. Search Web Part Customization
• Modify query in the web part
• Web part fires Query
• Results are returned
• Client side renders results
• How do you boost on user’s profile or other property value?
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6. Questions ?
http://Perficient.com/sharepointxbox
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