Developer Introduction to SharePoint Search

2.  Principal Consultant with Intellinet
 Microsoft SharePoint Server MVP
 Dev and Architect with MS stack since 1996
 Working with SharePoint since 2002

3.  Search Overview
◦ Review of features and Concepts
 Search Site and Web Parts
◦ Review components of Search and Results pages
◦ Customize Search and Result pages
 Overview of Search API
 Possible Solutions

4.  Crawling
◦ A scheduled activity that indexes the content,
meta-data and security.
 Index
◦ Processed info
◦ Extremely fast compared to querying source
content

5.  Managed Properties
◦ Can be used to query against a specific attribute
◦ 100+ by default, more can be added
◦ Examples:
 Author
 ContentType
 CreatedBy
 LastModifiedTime
 DocId
 FirstName

6.  Content Classes
◦ Searches based on Object Type
◦ Examples:
 SPSPeople
 STS_Site
 STS_Web
 STS_list_[doccumentlibrary] *
 STS_listitem_[documentlibrary] *
* Note name in brackets can be replaced with template name

7.  Query Formatting
◦ Limit – 255 characters
◦ Content Classes - ContentClass:Value
◦ Managed Properties - Property:Value
◦ Logical Operators - AND, OR, NOT, +, -
◦ Relational Operators - <, >, <=, >=, <>
◦ Filename – filename:”name”
◦ File Type – filetype:value
◦ Wildcards – Property:Partial Value
Example: “ContentClass:STS_Web AND Blog”
Would return all Webs that have “Blog” in the meta-data.

8.  People Search
◦ Queries the attributes in the User Profile store
◦ Used to find individual not content
◦ Similar to content search, but not tied to a specific
site

10.  Out of the Box Web Parts
◦ All Web Parts from the Search and Results Page are
available
◦ Including:
 Paging
 Results
 Related Queries
 Best Bets
 Statistics
 Summary

11.  Search Results
◦ XSLT for both Content and People can be fully
customized
◦ Queries can be preset to create dynamically
generated content on sites

12.  Demo!

13.  Namespaces
◦ Server
 Microsoft.Office.Server.Search.Query
◦ Foundation
 Microsoft.SharePoint.Search.Query

14.  KeywordQuery – Simplified Queries
 Property:Value – similar to standard search in UI

15.  FullTextSqlQuery - Supports rich, SQL-like queries
 SELECT <columns>
FROM <content source>
WHERE <conditions>
ORDER BY <columns>
 Conditions
 FREETEXT()
 CONTAINS()

16.  Example
SELECT LastName, FirstName, JobTitle, Title, accountname
FROM SCOPE()
WHERE ("scope" = 'People')
AND CONTAINS(JobTitle, 'Manager')
AND NOT CONTAINS(Department, '1099')

17.  Demo!

18.  Rich Content Interactions
◦ Interacting with Very Large Lists & Libraries
◦ Listing Department members
 Content Without Site Boundaries
◦ Cross-site navigation with security trimming
◦ Aggregating content

20.  MSDN SharePoint 2010 Resource Center
◦ http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/sharepoint/bb964529.aspx
 Content Classes in SharePoint Search
◦ http://nextconnect.blogspot.com/2010/04/content-classes-in-
sharepoint-search.html
 My Search Blog Posts
◦ http://nextconnect.blogspot.com/search/label/Search

21.  Blog - http://nextconnect.blogspot.com
 Twitter - @Next_Connect
 Email – nextconnect@live.com
 LinkedIn - http://www.linkedin.com/in/michaeloryszak