People Search & Extensibility in SharePoint 2013 Sana Khan Mikael Svenson

SPC191

People - the real value of your organization

People Search in SharePoint 2013…Empowers your users to find the right people

Enables personalization of enterprise search

Show off the brand new features in People Search

Show you how easy it is to customize People Search

Session objectives

Demo

People search – the new feature set

People as first class objects in enterprise

search

Expertise search now based on authored

content

Smart matching on location and phone

number

Robust and complete name search

solution

Demo recap

Data can be stored outside of SharePoint

Structured data in HR, CRM, SAP solutionsUnstructured data in file shares

Extending People Search

Enriching people content using BCS

When you remember all but someone’s nameWho knows something about water purification in Africa?

Who can you con into playing the piano at the next summer party?

When you remember all but someone’s name

When you remember all but someone’s nameWho has knowledge about our customer Puzzlepart?

Who is responsible for paying my salary on time?

When you remember all but someone’s name

Master Data is a single source of basic business data used across multiple systems,

applications, and/or processes.

What is Master Data?

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User scenario

Pavel Bansky is new at Contoso and is heading up a new campaign in Las Vegas.

He is looking to find someone with experience of the Las Vegas area to assist him next week.

Augmenting People Search

Retrieve information from a time tracking application that maintains up-to-date data about what projects you have worked on in the past and in the near future.

Outlook Calendar – Synchronized

Data flow

Projects -> User Profile Properties

Projects -> Search Index

SharePointDid

Time tracking application

Project DataBCS - OData

Availability InfoREST - jQuery

Demo

Using BCS to enrich people content for expertise search

Demo recap

Connected to a time-tracking application and populated project names to the User Profile via BCS.

Used projects and calendar availability from the time-tracking application to find the right person.

Used query rules and UI customization to improve people results.

User context for customizing enterprise search

Content closer to You is likely to be more relevant.

Prioritize content which You need.

……Cut down time spent finding the right content

Putting in the middle

User Scenario

Pavel Bansky is looking for documents on products design as research for the Las Vegas campaign.

…based on organization structure

…based onwho you follow

…based onsites you follow

Augmenting social capabilities for searchFind content closer to you in the organization

…turn business rules into query rules

Demo

Prioritize content based on who you are

Demo recapUsed Content Enrichment web service to create a Department refiner.

A simple web part prioritized content based on people and sites you follow.

Turned the business rule: “Content created by people close to me in the organization is important” into query rules.

Session take aways…

Makes users more productive

Easy to customize and personalize

**People Search in SharePoint 2013 is powerful**

Other sessions to followSPC203 – Tuesday 5pmSearch Content Enrichment and Extensibility in SharePoint 2013

SPC143 – Wednesday 9amMaking Great Search Based Applications with Query Rules in SharePoint 2013

SPC231 – Wednesday 10:30amStep by Step: Search Development in SharePoint 2013

SPC145 – Wednesday 5pmOptimize Search Relevance in SharePoint 2013

Questions

ResourcesCode: spsearchparts.codeplex.comREST Query Tool: sp2013searchtool.codeplex.com

Mikael’s blog: techmikael.blogspot.comTwitter: @mikaelsvenson

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People Search - Out-of-box feature set 2013

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Using BCS to enrich people content for expertise search

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Prioritize content based on who you are