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Learning Search-driven Application Development with SharePoint 2013

By : Johnny Tordgeman
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Learning Search-driven Application Development with SharePoint 2013

By: Johnny Tordgeman

Overview of this book

SharePoint 2013 feels like a of fresh air, offering many new features and changes over older versions. Among these new features is a completely revamped search engine. "Learning Search-driven Application Development with SharePoint 2013" is a quick-start guide to creating search-driven applications using the new and exciting features that have revolutionized the SharePoint enterprise search experience. "Learning Search-driven Application Development with SharePoint 2013" is a fast-paced, practical, hands-on guide to the world of enterprise search in SharePoint 2013. With step-by-step tutorials and real-world examples, this book will give you a head start creating fresh and exciting search-driven applications using SharePoint 2013's new search engine. "Learning Search-driven Application Development with SharePoint 2013" is an accelerated way to create search-driven applications for SharePoint 2013. By covering the basics first and gradually covering all search related topics, this book will be your guide through the world of SharePoint's enterprise search. Furthermore, you will learn how to use the powerful feature of Query Rules to create smart conditions that help respond to user's search queries intelligently. We will also discuss how to style search results and make them stand out, how to index external content so it will be searchable using SharePoint's powerful search engine, and how to use the new client side search APIs, which will allow us to take advantage of search in Apps, the new development model for SharePoint 2013. After reading Learning Search-driven Application Development with SharePoint 2013, you will understand what it takes to create applications that use search as a content provider. Using applications that are based on real world examples and step-by-step tutorials, you'll get hands-on experience in developing search driven applications.
Table of Contents (12 chapters)

Getting acquainted with result sources


The best way to explain what a result source is, is by using a real life example.

Say you need to buy some milk. You know that you need to go to the supermarket and look for milk in the dairy department. You aren't going to be looking for milk in the tools department or even other areas of the store (such as the fruits and vegetables departments); you limit yourself to just the dairy department.

A result source acts the same. It allows you to restrict search queries to a specific subset of content from the search index by defining a set of rules that must be met by the content in order to show up as a result.

If the result source sounds familiar to you, it is because you have already encountered it before. Take a look at the following screenshot taken from the default SharePoint 2013 search center:

Below the search box we have four search verticals. These verticals are actually using result sources. Think about the Videos vertical. It takes your search...