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Welcome To
Create Dazzling End-user applications using SharePoint Search
Speaker: Bill Crider
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INDEX CONTENTDemonstration
Steps1. Open Central Admin2. Manage Service App3. Click on Content Sources under
Crawling on the left nav menu4. Add a New Content Source5. Run a full crawl6. Set up a schedule
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Enterprise Search & SharePoint
• Search IS an application • SharePoint is a fantastic platform for
an Enterprise Search Portal• Key Reasons Search projects fail:
– No identified KPI’s– Not defining deliverables– Not including content quality– Changing Objectives
• #1 reason - Enterprise Search is not a project but a PROGRAM– Take small, measurable, consistent
steps toward enterprise search
Remainder of this Webinar focused on how you can configure SharePoint and related products to enable Enterprise Search….
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Enterprise Search
Where are you in your search journey with SharePoint? We’re going to demonstrate how to configure and use the following techniques to improve Search within SharePoint:
• Indexed Content:• Indexing the Enterprise• File shares, 3rd party data,
databases• Metadata, Advanced Search:
• Targeting Results• Suggestions• Targeted Queries• Enable Refinements &
Ranking• Handling unstructured,
ungoverned data (Power of Visual Search)
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INDEX CONTENTDemonstration
Steps1. Open Central Admin2. Manage Service App3. Click on Content Sources under
Crawling on the left nav menu4. Add a New Content Source5. Run a full crawl6. Set up a schedule
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PARTITION CONTENTDemonstration
Steps1. Open Central Admin2. Manage Service App3. Click on Result Sources under Queries and
Results on the left nav menu4. Create a query to partition the content
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TARGET CONTENT WITH QUERY TRANSFORMS AND RULES
Demonstration
Transforms1. Take the query the user enters
and add your own conditions to create a targeted result
Rules1. Do something with the
targeted result to make it useful
(easy to find, highlighted, recommendations, etc.)
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QUERY SUGGESTIONSDemonstration
Steps1. Open Central Admin2. Manage Service App3. Click on Query Suggestions
under Queries and Results on the left nav menu
4. Check “Show Suggestions”5. Import text file(s)
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SPELLING SUGGESTIONSDemonstration
Steps1. Open Central Admin2. Manage Service App3. Click on Search Dictionaries
under Queries and Results on the left nav menu
4. Enter terms under the group “Search Dictionaries”
Special Note: The Company Inclusions/Exclusions list will enable you to specifically set up the search engine to extract a list of companies from search results
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COMPANY EXTRACTIONDemonstration
Steps1. Open Central Admin2. Manage Service App3. Click on Search Schema4. Find the Managed Properties
you want to extract company names from
5. Check the “Company Extraction” checkbox on the property page
6. Add the company terms to the metadata term store
7. Run a full crawl when complete
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REFINED SEARCHDemonstration
2 methods1. Advanced Search2. Metadata/Properties
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SEARCH APPLICATIONSDemonstration
Steps to create1. Authoring site collection2. Consuming site collection3. Activate the cross site publishing feature4. Create metadata columns5. Create a list – make it a catalog6. Connect to the list from the consuming site7. Configure Search web parts on the consuming site
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SEARCH APPLICATIONSDemonstration
Step 3 – Enable feature at the Site collection level
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SEARCH APPLICATIONSDemonstration
Step 4 – Create metadata columns
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SEARCH APPLICATIONSDemonstration
Step 5 – Set up the list as a catalog
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Demonstration
Step 7 – Configure Search parts on the consuming page
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