1. © 2015 Ascendum Solutions. All rights reserved. Welcome To Create Dazzling End-user applications using SharePoint Search Speaker: Bill Crider #sharepointcincy2015 @SharePointCincy #SharePointCincy

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4. © 2015 Ascendum Solutions. All rights reserved. INDEX CONTENT Demonstration Steps 1.Open Central Admin 2.Manage Service App 3.Click on Content Sources under Crawling on the left nav menu 4.Add a New Content Source 5.Run a full crawl 6.Set up a schedule

5. © 2015 Ascendum Solutions. All rights reserved. Enterprise Search & SharePoint Search IS an application SharePoint is a fantastic platform for an Enterprise Search Portal Key Reasons Search projects fail: – No identified KPI’s – Not defining deliverables – Not including content quality – Changing Objectives #1 reason - Enterprise Search is not a project but a PROGRAM – Take small, measurable, consistent steps toward enterprise search Remainder of this Webinar focused on how you can configure SharePoint and related products to enable Enterprise Search….

6. © 2015 Ascendum Solutions. All rights reserved. Enterprise Search Where are you in your search journey with SharePoint? We’re going to demonstrate how to configure and use the following techniques to improve Search within SharePoint: Indexed Content: Indexing the Enterprise File shares, 3 rd party data, databases Metadata, Advanced Search: Targeting Results Suggestions Targeted Queries Enable Refinements & Ranking Handling unstructured, ungoverned data (Power of Visual Search)

7. © 2015 Ascendum Solutions. All rights reserved. INDEX CONTENT Demonstration Steps 1.Open Central Admin 2.Manage Service App 3.Click on Content Sources under Crawling on the left nav menu 4.Add a New Content Source 5.Run a full crawl 6.Set up a schedule

8. © 2015 Ascendum Solutions. All rights reserved. PARTITION CONTENT Demonstration Steps 1.Open Central Admin 2.Manage Service App 3.Click on Result Sources under Queries and Results on the left nav menu 4.Create a query to partition the content

9. © 2015 Ascendum Solutions. All rights reserved. TARGET CONTENT WITH QUERY TRANSFORMS AND RULES Demonstration Transforms 1.Take the query the user enters and add your own conditions to create a targeted result Rules 1.Do something with the targeted result to make it useful (easy to find, highlighted, recommendations, etc.)

10. © 2015 Ascendum Solutions. All rights reserved. QUERY SUGGESTIONS Demonstration Steps 1.Open Central Admin 2.Manage Service App 3.Click on Query Suggestions under Queries and Results on the left nav menu 4.Check “Show Suggestions” 5.Import text file(s)

11. © 2015 Ascendum Solutions. All rights reserved. SPELLING SUGGESTIONS Demonstration Steps 1.Open Central Admin 2.Manage Service App 3.Click on Search Dictionaries under Queries and Results on the left nav menu 4.Enter terms under the group “Search Dictionaries” Special Note: The Company Inclusions/Exclusions list will enable you to specifically set up the search engine to extract a list of companies from search results

12. © 2015 Ascendum Solutions. All rights reserved. COMPANY EXTRACTION Demonstration Steps 1.Open Central Admin 2.Manage Service App 3.Click on Search Schema 4.Find the Managed Properties you want to extract company names from 5.Check the “Company Extraction” checkbox on the property page 6.Add the company terms to the metadata term store 7.Run a full crawl when complete

13. © 2015 Ascendum Solutions. All rights reserved. REFINED SEARCH Demonstration 2 methods 1.Advanced Search 2.Metadata/Properties

14. © 2015 Ascendum Solutions. All rights reserved. SEARCH APPLICATIONS Demonstration Steps to create 1.Authoring site collection 2.Consuming site collection 3.Activate the cross site publishing feature 4. Create metadata columns 5.Create a list – make it a catalog 6.Connect to the list from the consuming site 7.Configure Search web parts on the consuming site

15. © 2015 Ascendum Solutions. All rights reserved. SEARCH APPLICATIONS Demonstration Step 3 – Enable feature at the Site collection level

16. © 2015 Ascendum Solutions. All rights reserved. SEARCH APPLICATIONS Demonstration Step 4 – Create metadata columns

17. © 2015 Ascendum Solutions. All rights reserved. SEARCH APPLICATIONS Demonstration Step 5 – Set up the list as a catalog

18. © 2015 Ascendum Solutions. All rights reserved. Demonstration Step 6 – Connect to the catalog

19. © 2015 Ascendum Solutions. All rights reserved. Demonstration Step 7 – Configure Search parts on the consuming page

20. © 2015 Ascendum Solutions. All rights reserved. Demonstration Step 8 – Add branding

21. © 2015 Ascendum Solutions. All rights reserved. Demonstration Step 8 – Add branding

22. © 2015 Ascendum Solutions. All rights reserved. Demonstration

23. © 2015 Ascendum Solutions. All rights reserved. ANALYTICS Demonstration

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