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1. Content Search Web Part
– Get it all in one place
and style it!
Benjamin Niaulin
Presented at: SharePoint Saturday St- SharePoint Geek
Louis

2. Description
We've always been limited to show items and documents
from our current site or Site Collection. In SharePoint 2013, a
new Web Part will make it easier to grab everything and style
it the way you want.
In this session, you will learn what this Web Part can do, the
various scenarios where it will help as well as how to change
the display of the results. Don't stay constrained to your
SharePoint site - Search it!
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3. Who is this guy talking?
Benjamin Niaulin
Speaker, Trainer, Consultant, SCRUM Master
Blog
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Website
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Email
benjamin.niaulin@share-gate.com
TWITTER!: @bniaulin
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7. Agenda
Introduction – Problems and Previous Solutions
Basics of Search 2013
Content Search Web Part – Intro
Introduction Demo
Overview of the Query Builder
Display Templates
Existing Content Search in SP2013
Licensing
Other solutions?
Cool Ideas – What this means for 2013
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8. INTRODUCTION

9. Problems we face
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
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10. Previous Solutions
Content Query Web Part
Search Coding
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11. Wonderful XSLT
<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="SRCHRS
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margin">

12. BASICS OF SEARCH 2013

13. What’s new?
FAST + SEARCH
Continuous Crawl
Content Search
Display Templates everywhere
HTML – no more XSLT
Search Results
Result Sources, Result Types…. Just an overall better Search
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Search Driven Sites
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14. CONTENT SEARCH

15. Introduction to the Web Part
Site Collection A
Content Search
Search Web Part
Site Collection B Search
Crawl
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16. What is it made of?
The Content Search Web Part is essentially 2 things
1. Query Builder
2. Display Templates
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17. The Query Builder
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18. QUERY BUILDER DEMO

19. DISPLAY TEMPLATES

20. Overview
http://sharepoint.microsoft.com/blog/Pages/BlogPost.aspx?pID=1041
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21. What it does
Stored in “~sitecollection/_catalogs/masterpage/Display
Templates/”
Provides reusable displays for your Content
NO MORE XSLT! HTML and Javascript
Uses “Managed Properties” to show the content in right
<div>
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22. Categories of Display Templates
Control
Similar to ContentQueryMain.xsl
Filter, Group and Hover Panel
Similar to Header.xsl +more
Item
Similar to
itemstyle.xsl
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23. Control
The container for the
“Groups, Filters and
Items” to come
Best way to reference
custom files (JavaScript,
CSS, etc…)
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24. Item
Controls what happens to
each item rendered
through the query
Use Managed Properties
to show the content you
want where you want
using HTML
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25. Editing a Display Template
Always comes in 2; a HTML and JS file
NEVER edit the JS file – it is automatically generated
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26. Editing a Display Template (2)
Very easy to understand and manipulate compared to
XSLT
Always best to copy an existing and work from there
Remember to only copy the HTML file, the JS is generated
Demo!
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27. PREBUILT

28. Prebuilt Content Searches
Microsoft SharePoint offers prebuilt Content Search Web
Parts for specific scenarios
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29. LICENSING

30. Not available everywhere
Only available on SharePoint 2013 Enterprise
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31. OTHER SOLUTIONS?

32. Search Results Web Part
How-To
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33. WHAT THIS MEANS

34. Cool!
Create dynamic
Home Pages or
Collaboration Sites
Render an entire
Web Page through
Content Search
Web Page is a
Search Result
contextual to
the user!
Cool!
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35. DEMO

36. THANK YOU!
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