Search-driven apps with SharePoint 2013 what‘s possible with the new plattform?

Maximilian Melcher| Managing Consultant| 14. April 2013

Maximilian Melcher

Maximilian Melcher (MCITP, MCPD) is a Managing Consultant for Alegri International Services in Munich, Germany. Max is a specialist in SharePoint technologies focused on search, social computing, web content management and collaboration. Max has led SharePoint implementations for Dax 30 companies since 2009. Max’s free time is spent on twitter mostly with a good coffee in his hands.

Twitter: @maxmelcher

Blog: Melcher.it

Email: Maximilian.Melcher@alegri.eu

Toolbox: sharepointtoolbox.de

www: http://alegri.de

About Alegri Foundation year: 2001 225 employees (DACH region) 8 locations One of the biggest Microsoft-

and Unite- (SAP & Microsoft)partners in Germany

60+ of DAX 100 companies are our costumers

Consulting Excellence in MicrosoftEnterprise Solutions

http://www.alegri.eu (<= SP2013)

Search in SharePoint 2013 Are there any relevant changes?

Search Sessions @ SPC

Tue 9:00am - SPC063 - Customizing Search Experiences in

SharePoint 2013

Mon 3:45pm - SPC202 - Search Architecture in SharePoint 2013

Tue 10:30am - SPC044 - Crawl and Index all Enterprise Content with SharePoint 2013 Search

Tue 10:30am - SPC125 - Hybrid and Search in the Cloud

Wed 9:00am - SPC143 – Making Great Search Based Applications with Query Rules in SharePoint 2013

Wed 5:00pm - SPC145 – Optimize Search Relevance in SharePoint

2013

Search Sessions @ SPC

Tue 3:15pm - SPC230 - Step by Step: Building Search Driven Applications with SharePoint 2013 - Speaker: Scot Hillier

Tue 9:00am - SPC063 - Customizing Search Experiences in SharePoint 2013Speaker: Kerem Yuceturk

Tue 5:00pm - SPC172 - Overview of Capacity Planning, Sizing and High Availability for Search in SharePoint 2013 - Speakers: Barry Waldbaum, Olaf Birkeland

Wed 9:00am - SPC143 - Making Great Search Based Applications with Query Rules in SharePoint 2013 - Speaker: Pedro DeRose

Tue 5:00pm - SPC203 - Search Content Enrichment and Extensibility in SharePoint 2013Speakers: Runar Olsen, Kathrine Hammervold

Search Sessions @ SPC

Wed 10:30am - SPC231 - Step by Step: Search Development in SharePoint 2013Speakers - Andrew Wardly, Matt King

Wed 10:30am - SPC117 - How to Manage and Troubleshoot Search: A Practical Guide Speakers: Darrin Allred, Ed Barnett, Agnes Molnar

Wed 1:45pm - SPC095 - Effective Search Deployment and Operation in SharePoint 2013 - Speakers: Darrin Allred, Knut Brandrud

Wed 3:15pm - SPC049 - Custom Security Trimming for Search in SharePoint 2013Speakers: Morgan Larsson, Sveinar Rasmussen

Wed 5:00pm - SPC145 - Optimize Search Relevance in SharePoint 2013Speakers: Jan Inge Bergseth, Victor Poznanski

Wed 3:15pm - SPC150 - Microsoft Early Learning: Moving Search to O365 and Building a Hybrid Experience - Speaker: Rene Sanchez Almaguer

Search-Driven Apps Search-driven apps are applications utilizing the search index to query data and present them.

Examples in SharePoint 2013:□ My Tasks□ Sites I can access□ News□ Newsfeed□ …

Search Driven Apps Pro

□ Easy to implement□ Fast response times□ Cross-Site / Cross-Webapp / Cross-Farm

Con□ Content-Freshness => invest in hardware□ Content must be indexed (of course)

What sites can I access ?

Continuous crawling

SP2010 SP2013

Pre RTM Rumors…

Doc-Push API? □ Nope.

New WebParts Many new WebParts You need ECALs for the good ones

Example: Content Search WebPart

Wizard-based 7 Display modes

□ Diagnostic mode! Query Variables

Enterprise CAL only!

Display Templates

Html & JavaScript

You can debug display templates!!!

Hover Templates

Html & Js Custom Hover Templates Customizable Action pane

Query Rules Intention-based Query parsing

□ Lots of options…

Content Enrichment Web Service (CEWS)

Read more: http://blogs.msdn.com/b/sharepointdev/archive/2012/11/13/customize-the-sharepoint-2013-search-experience-with-a-content-enrichment-web-service.aspx

Custom Connector Possible Lots of work Documentation -> not available.

If you still wanna do it: start with the MyFile Connector: http://code.msdn.microsoft.com/office/SharePoint-2013-MyFileConne-79d2ea26

Import / Export Settings

Tool-Support REST Many parameters Very detailed output

https://sp2013searchtool.codeplex.com/ - oder „cinst SearchQueryTool“ via http://chocolatey.org

Questions?

Maximilian MelcherTwitter: @maxmelcherBlog: Melcher.itEmail: Maximilian.Melcher@alegri.eu Toolbox: sharepointtoolbox.de

www: http://alegri.de

Thanks!