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Sri Lanka SharePoint Forum | January 2014

Search Driven Publishing ModelShehan

PerumaSharePoint Archi tect

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Search Driven Publishing

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A new way of publishing

If it’s been crawled, then it can be served!

Search Enabling Content

I t ’ s no t abou t search ing con ten t , bu t ra the r abou t

pub l i sh ing and repub l i sh ing c raw led con ten t

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• Separation of concerns & responsibilities

• Content reuse• Decouple structure

from navigation• Content targeting• Scalability

Internet | Intranet | Extranet | Mobile

Authors can create and maintain content in an authoring site collection

Content can be made available to one or more publishing site collections

Quick Overview

What? Why?

• Enable lists & libraries as Catalogs

• Crawl the content of the catalog enabled lists & libraries

• Use the Content Search Web Part for rendering

How?

Where?

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Search Driven Publishing Model

#1 – Add content into Catalog enabled lists/libraries in the authoring sites

#2 – SharePoint will crawl and index the content

#3 – Utilize Content Search Web Parts to resurface the content in publishing sites

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Search Driven Publishing

Taxonomy Based Navigation

Friendly URL’s

Search Results (computers/desktops

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Content

Search Web Part

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The Building Blocks

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The Building Blocks

Search Driven

Publishing

Content Catalogs

Content Search

Web Part

Query Builder &

Rules

Display Templates

Category & Catalog Item Page

Managed (Terms)

Navigation

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Search Driven Publishing…

Managed Navigation

• Friendly URL’s

• Integrated with the Catalogs

• Terms can be “Pinned”

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Search Driven Publishing…

Content Catalogs

Enable it | Index it | Consume it

• Accessible from the settings page

• Define the URL structure

• Define the navigation hierarchy via managed metadata

• Available for consumption after crawl completes

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Search Driven Publishing…

Category and Catalog Item

Page• Show structured content

consistently

• Automatically created when a connection to a catalog is made *

• Assigned to Terms in a term store (managed navigation)

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Search Driven Publishing…

Content Search Web Part

• Is responsible in executing the query and displaying the results

• Contains the Query Builder and list of available Display Templates

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Search Driven Publishing…

Query Builder

• UI based tool targeted at Information Workers

• Provides powerful query building capabilities (including Quick & Advanced views)

• Shows a real-time preview of the search results

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Search Driven Publishing…

Display Templates

• Mechanism to brand the results of the search

• No more XSLT! Built using HTML, CSS & JavaScript

• Ability to “mix-and-match” templates with queries

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Summary

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(Product) Catalog - In a nutshell…

On the authoring site:1. Create the Taxonomy hierarchy2. Create Site Columns (and Content Type) for the Catalog list/library3. Add the content type to the list/library4. Enable the Catalog setting for the list/library (and modify the other

properties)5. Enter content and crawl the catalog

On the publishing site:6. Once the crawl is complete. Create a connection to the catalog in

the publishing site7. Add the CSWP and configure it

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Recap…

• A new content publishing model

• Reuse content between different sites (including site collections)

• Any library or list can be defined as a Catalog

• Utilizes search technology to retrieve content

• Content displayed using Content Search Web Parts

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Questions?

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