I presented at the SharePointFest Chicago in October 2013. During my presentations, I mentioned that I would upload my PowerPoint presentations. Session 1: Search Customizations This session covered customizations for search in SharePoint 2013. 1. Display Templates 2. Server side search web parts. 3. Boosting and segmentation Here is the link : http://www.slideshare.net/perficientinc/search-customizations Session 2: […]
Posts Tagged ‘search’
The Search Engine for Your Business: Part 1
Introduction It has been a while since I’ve hit the blogosphere. During that time I had the pleasure of presenting a search webinar speaking about SharePoint 2013 search. Not only did I learn that presenting for a webinar was much different than presenting in front of a room of people, I also realized that the […]
Facebook Graph Search: Changing the Search Experience?
Consumer experiences drive enterprise user expectations. That’s become increasingly true over the last few years. Now Facebook is making a bid to provide the first fundamental change to how we experience Search since Google introduced the now-ubiquitous Simple White Page With An Empty Search Box. Will Facebook’s latest innovation join the queue of consumer applications […]
SharePoint 2013 Search & Social: Webinar Recap & Replay
Yesterday, we hosted a SharePoint 2013 webinar that covered the new search and social features. Will Tseng, a senior technical consultant within Perficient’s SharePoint practice, and Rich Wood, director of Perficient’s national SharePoint practice, teamed up to talk about two of their favorite topics. In the first half of the webinar, Will discussed key components of designing […]
SharePoint 2013 – Search not displaying all results
Scenario: While building a search based application in SharePoint 2013, I observed a behavior which I thought was quirky. A page on a publishing site had a Search Results web part and a Content by Search web part. While configuring them, I set them to have the same query and result source. Expected result would’ve […]
SP2013 Search: Workaround for People Result Sorting
So I was getting some unexpected behavior (as in just not working!) when I tried to apply sorting to people search from the peopleresults.aspx page through the query builder. I hadn’t had any issues sorting on my other result sources but people results were proving to be stubborn. To reproduce, try going to your People […]
How to Make the Most of SharePoint Search – Continued
Last time we talked about three possible areas of improving SharePoint Search: Define Content Authority Sources – allowing users to concentrate their search Content Promotion – managing content and where it goes Content Metadata and Ratings – aspects that allow users to refine search results Now let’s dig a little deeper into the three areas. […]
How to Make the Most of SharePoint Search
I have had a number of clients share with me that SharePoint Search does not work. I find it interesting, since some clients implement SharePoint specifically for search. When we dig a little deeper, we typically find the problem is not SharePoint. The problem is actually the volume and relevancy of content returned in the […]
SP2013 Search–Content Type Managed Property in Queries
Not the right effect? Very short and sweet this time, hopefully will help those who happen on this page for this common issue. In the Query Builder, you can create a query using using fields or managed properties. A common field that users will use for creating a fielded search is Content Type. However, as […]
SP2013 Search Display Templates Semi-Deep Dive
If you’ve stumbled around display templates in SharePoint 2013 Search, you’ve probably run into these following JavaScript do-dads: ctx.RenderBody(ctx) -> (standard search results Display Template) ctx.RenderBody(ctx) -> (hover panel Display Template) ctx.RenderFooter(ctx) -> (hover panel Display Template) ctx.RenderHeader(ctx) –> (hover panel Display Template) You can find these methods on items such as Item_Default.html, Item_PDF.html, Item_Word.html, […]