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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)

Building a SharePoint-hosted search-driven app


Now that we know how to use the new client-side APIs, how keyword queries work, and the overall idea of apps, let's combine all that knowledge and create a client-side search-driven app.

We mentioned in the previous chapter that the Content Search Web Part is not available in Office 365. What we will build now is a simple content search like web part that will aggregate all the tasks a user has over the entire tenant.

The end result of this section is as follows:

Create task apps (lists)

Create a task app (list) on the Video Games site, and any other sites you may have. Add some tasks that are assigned to your user and other users and wait a bit for the continuous crawl to pick up the new content.

Understanding the requirements

Our requirements are to display all the tasks from everywhere in the tenant for a specific user. Naturally, you may think that creating a result source is the first step in creating this app. Think about it a bit harder: when...