No one will argue, one of the major changes brought to SharePoint 2013 lies around Search. With the new Continuous Crawl, the new architecture and the many changes to the existing and new Web Parts, your architecture will need to be re-worked. This session is for those with experience in SharePoint 2010 that want to see how we can exploit the new features and Web Parts to build our own new Search Center. This session will cover: What is Continuous Crawl? Using Analytics to better the user experience with search Changes and new Web Parts for Search (refinement, search results, content search, etc.) Result Types and Rules Display Templates And more… The release of the new SharePoint 2013 with this advanced Search will greatly influence the way you architect your SharePoint. This session gives you the opportunity to see what can be done with Search so you don’t have to say “I wish I knew that before”.

1. Exploring the new Search
SharePoint 2013
What can you do now?
by Benjamin Niaulin, a SharePoint GEEK

2. Benjamin Niaulin
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3. Before we start
What bugged you the most
building on SharePoint 2007 and
2010?
#SPSVB @bniaulin

4. What’s New? Our Session
Enterprise Search & FAST Search
Continuous Crawl
Analytics

5. What’s New? Our Session
Crawled & Managed Properties
Result Sources
Result Types

6. What’s New? Our Session
Query Rules
Display Templates
Search Web Parts

7. What’s New? Our Session
Cross-Site Publishing
Product Catalog
Search-Drive Sites

8. We have enough
not to
fall asleep

9. +
Best of FAST Search algorithms
Document Thumbnails
Visual Best Bets
Architecture
Query Language (FQL)
User Segmentation
Metadata Extraction

10. Continuous Crawl

11. The Real Continuous Crawl
•Only works on SharePoint Content Sources
•By default every 15min
Set-SPEnterpriseSearchCrawlContentSource
•Once indexed, content appears almost right away...like magic
•Lots of added pressure on the Server

13. Analytics and Search
Search analytics analyzes content that is being crawled and added to the search index.
Usage analytics analyzes user actions, or usage events, such as clicks or viewed items, on
the SharePoint site.

14. Crawled & Managed
A crawled property is content and metadata that is extracted from an item, such as a document or a
URL, during a crawl.
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To include the content and metadata of crawled properties in the search index, you map crawled
properties to managed properties. Managed properties can have a large number of settings, or
attributes. These attributes determine how the contents are shown in search results.

15. Display
Templates

16. Overview of Display Templates

17. NO MORE XSLT!

18. The basics of Display Template
• Stored in “~sitecollection/_catalogs/masterpage/Display
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Templates/”
Provides reusable displays for your Content
NO MORE XSLT! HTML and Javascript
Uses “Managed Properties” to show the content in right <div>

19. Do not
touch
the JS
file

20. Example

21. Result Sources
Similar to what we called « Scopes »
1 - A search provider or source URL to get search results from
2 - A protocol to use to get search results
3 - A query transform, which can narrow results from the given search
provider or URL to a specified subset

22. Result Types
Identify different types of results
1 - One or more characteristics or conditions to compare each search result
against, such as the result source or content type of the search result
2 - A display template to use for search results that meet the conditions.

23. Query Rules
Similar to the old Best Bets
Influence the SharePoint Search Results
Actions:
Promoted Results
Result Block
Change Ranked Results by changing Query

24. Updated Search Web Parts

25. Cross-Site Publishing

26. Product Catalog

27. Search Driven Sites

28. Benjamin Niaulin
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