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SharePoint Search Center Configuration

SharePoint Search Center Configuration. Matthew McDermott Director Aptillon, Inc. About Me. 7 Time SharePoint Server MVP Founding Member, Director – Aptillon, Inc. http://www.aptillon.com Owner of AbleBlue, LLC. Blog: http://www.ableblue.com/blog Instructor for Critical Path Training

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SharePoint Search Center Configuration

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  1. SharePoint Search Center Configuration Matthew McDermott Director Aptillon, Inc.

  2. About Me • 7 Time SharePoint Server MVP • Founding Member, Director – Aptillon, Inc. • http://www.aptillon.com • Owner of AbleBlue, LLC. • Blog: http://www.ableblue.com/blog • Instructor for Critical Path Training • Blogger, Dog Guy, and Foodie • Twitter: @MatthewMcD • Email: matthew@Aptillon.com

  3. Search UI Configuration • Changing the Search Center Look and Feel • Search Refinement • Result Types • Highlighting Specific Content • Presenting Actionable BCS Results • Changes for SharePoint 2013 Search Results

  4. The Process Review and Customize the Results XSL

  5. Metadata Matters • Metadata is invisible, how do we find it? • How do we make metadata usable? • How to we make search useful to the business?

  6. How does metadata get to the index? Managed Properties (2013) Index Text Crawled Properties Search Property DB Managed Properties (2010)

  7. How does metadata get to the results page? Index + = Search Property DB XSL

  8. Search Center Customization • Core Search Results and Columns • Refinement Panel • Tabs • Accessory Web Parts

  9. demo tame The Search Center

  10. Actionable BCS Results • Email Addresses • Phone Numbers • Presence Icon • Icons • Refiners

  11. demo BCS Search Results

  12. 2013 Results? Index Query Rules Display Templates Result Types ?

  13. Result Types • SharePoint 2013 includes a new framework for presenting search results to end users called result types • Result types have several elements that enable each type to be rendered differently:

  14. Display Templates • Display templates contain the following characteristics: • They define the visual layout of a Result Type • A template is really just HTML • You can edit it with ANY HTML designer you want • You add placeholders to your HTML file where managed properties should be emitted • A set of display templates is included OOB • /Master Pages/Display Templates/Search folder • Site collection admins can upload new display templates.

  15. demo 2013 Search Results

  16. Better Best Bets • Query Rules • Run on one or all Result Sources • Rules can be filter by User Segment • Rules are very flexible (Keywords, RegEx, etc.) • Results • Promoted Results (like 2010 Best Bets) • Result Blocks (think of it as running another query) • Change result ranking by changing the query • Query Rules can be GLOBAL!

  17. demo 2013 Style Best Bets

  18. A few final thoughts… • Challenge: Can users get what they need from the Search Results? • Use Refiners… • …just say “No!” to the Advanced Search Page! • Hate XSL and SPD? Upgrade to 2013 and use Notepad++ • Consider promoting your best content

  19. Links and Resources • My Blog • http://www.ableblue.com/blog • Basic Search Center Editing • http://bit.ly/pCHMaW • Query Rules • http://technet.microsoft.com/en-us/library/jj871676.aspx • Add Social to your Search Center • http://www.ableblue.com/blog/archive/2012/12/10/sharepoint-2013-jsom-and-social-api-2/

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