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SharePoint User Group Chicago: 1/24/2013 SharePoint 2013 Search Overview. Agenda – What’s New?. UI Improvements Result Types, New Refiners, Fresh Look Display Templates Content by Search WebPart Relevance Improvements Query Logs Query Rules Result Sources Changes in Crawling
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SharePoint User Group Chicago:1/24/2013SharePoint 2013 Search Overview
Agenda – What’s New? • UI Improvements • Result Types, New Refiners, Fresh Look • Display Templates • Content by Search WebPart • Relevance Improvements • Query Logs • Query Rules • Result Sources • Changes in Crawling • Continuous Crawl • Content Enrichment • Why Upgrade?
User Interface Improvements Hover Panel Web Page Result Type PowerPoint Result Type Bar/Slider Refiner
Result Sources • What happened to Scopes? • Deprecated in 2013 • Cannot add Result Sources or Scopes to the DropDown • Federated Search and/or Scopes = Result Sources • Restrict results to a subset of content
Display Templates • Goodbye to XSLT, hello HTML and JavaScript • Managed Properties • External and Inline JavaScript • HTML • Can be used as the entire look and feel, or used with Result Types to create a dynamic search experience.
Demo 1Creating a Twitter Result SourceOffice Web Apps 2013Result TypesDisplay Templates
Query Rules Query Rules (SP2013) “when the user is looking for ‘holiday schedule’, show users useful results” VS VS Search Keywords/Best Bets (SP2010) “when the query is ‘holiday schedule’, promote a specific link” http://blogs.technet.com/b/tothesharepoint/archive/2012/09/18/what-happened-to-best-bets-introducing-query-rules.aspx
Query Builder • Manipulate the default search query • Content by Search Web Part • Result Sources • Result Types • Search Core Results Web Part • Uses KQL (Keyword Query Language) http://nbsharepointtalk.blogspot.com/2012/08/whats-new-within-sharepoint-2013-search.html
Content By Search Web Part (CSWP) • Customize a query to display search results • Use Display Templates change the look and feel • Crawl frequently for content freshness • Vs. Content Query Web Part (CQWP)
Changes in Crawling Continuous Crawling Keeping it fresh Crawler runs every 15 minutes Adaptable Craws adapt as necessary to the change rate of SharePoint content No Index merge Items appear in results after they have been crawled Only works with SharePoint sites as content sources Continuous Incremental http://blog.octavie.nl/index.php/2012/11/23/sharepoint-2013-search-continuous-crawling/
Content Enrichment • Comes default out of the box in 2013 – required FAST for SharePoint in SP2010 • Replaces FAST item processing pipeline • Puts code in a web service, rather than a sandbox • Processes and returns managed properties • Create new managed properties -> refiners by extracting data from unstructured text http://blogs.msdn.com/b/sharepointdev/archive/2012/11/13/customize-the-sharepoint-2013-search-experience-with-a-content-enrichment-web-service.aspx
Query Logs and Usage Reports • Usage Reports • Number of Queries • Search Reports • Top Queries (Day and Month) • Abandoned Queries (Day and Month) • No Result Queries (Day and Month) • Query Rule Usage (Day and Month) • Excel Spreadsheet Format
What happened to FAST for SharePoint? SharePoint 2013 bundled search experience UI Improvements Expanded Features Why Upgrade?
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