SharePoint User Group Chicago:1/24/2013

SharePoint 2013 Search Overview

Agenda – What’s New?

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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

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Bar/Slider Refiner

Web Page Result Type

PowerPoint Result Type

Hover Panel

Result Sources

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What happened to Scopes?Deprecated in 2013Cannot add Result Sources or Scopes to the DropDown

Federated Search and/or Scopes = Result SourcesRestrict results to a subset of content

Display Templates

Goodbye to XSLT, hello HTML and JavaScriptManaged PropertiesExternal and Inline JavaScriptHTML

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 Source

Office Web Apps 2013Result Types

Display Templates

Query Rules

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Search Keywords/Best Bets (SP2010)“when the query is ‘holiday schedule’,

promote a specific link”

Query Rules (SP2013)“when the user is looking for ‘holiday schedule’, show users useful results”

VS VS

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)

8http://nbsharepointtalk.blogspot.com/2012/08/whats-new-within-sharepoint-2013-search.html

Content By Search Web Part (CSWP)

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Customize a query to display search resultsUse Display Templates change the look and feelCrawl frequently for content freshness

Vs. Content Query Web Part (CQWP)

Demo 2Query Rules

Query BuilderContent By Search Web Part

Continuous Crawling

Changes in Crawling

Keeping it freshCrawler runs every 15 minutes

AdaptableCraws adapt as necessary to the

change rate of SharePoint content

No Index mergeItems 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/ 11

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

12http://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

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Usage ReportsNumber of Queries

Search ReportsTop Queries (Day and Month)Abandoned Queries (Day and Month)No Result Queries (Day and Month)Query Rule Usage (Day and Month)

Excel Spreadsheet Format

Why Upgrade?

• What happened to FAST for SharePoint?– SharePoint 2013 bundled search experience– UI Improvements– Expanded Features

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Questions?

Contact

Will TsengWill.tseng@perficient.comLinkedIn

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