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Learning Search-driven Application Development with SharePoint 2013

By : Johnny Tordgeman
Book Image

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)

Learning query rules


Query rules are a hot new feature of SharePoint 2013 search. In essence, query rules are the infrastructure for query pipeline extensibility. Using query rules, we can create conditional rules that will intelligently respond to what the user is trying to search for.

Let's assume we have a knowledge center site that tags all of its assets (videos, images, documents, and so on) using the following taxonomy dictionary as shown in the following screenshot:

If a user searches for one of these terms, we should display a result on top of the other results, pointing the user to the knowledge center. A result that will always appear on top of other results is called a promoted result.

Promoted results are very similar to SharePoint 2010's best bets, but with one key difference: promoted results can react to taxonomy terms as well as matched keywords.

A promoted result, for the knowledge center we mentioned previously, will look as shown in the following screenshot:

Now, let's assume...