Developers Introductionto SharePoint Search

SharePoint Saturday Virginia BeachMike Oryszak

January 8th, 2011

• Practice Manager with Intellinet• Microsoft SharePoint Server MVP• Dev and Architect with MS stack since 1996• Working with SharePoint since 2002• Raleigh-Durham, NC Area since 1998

About Me

• 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

Session Overview

SEARCH OVERVIEWDevelopers Introduction to SharePoint Search

• Crawling– A scheduled activity that indexes the content, meta-data

and security.

• Index– Processed info– Extremely fast compared to querying source content

Search Overview

• 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

Search OverviewManaged Properties

• Content Classes– Searches based on Object Type– Great for filtering down the potential resultset

– Examples:• SPSPeople • STS_Site • STS_Web• STS_list_[doccumentlibrary] *• STS_listitem_[documentlibrary] *

* Note name in brackets can be replaced with template name

Search OverviewContent Classes

• 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.

Search OverviewQuery Formatting

• 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

Search OverviewPeople Search

SEARCH SITE AND WEB PARTSDevelopers Introduction to SharePoint Search

Search Site and Web Parts

• All Web Parts from the Search and Results Page are available

• Including:– Paging– Results– Related Queries– Best Bets– Statistics– Summary

Search Site and Web PartsOut of the Box Web Parts

• Search Results– XSLT for both Content and People can be fully

customized– Queries can be preset to create dynamically generated

content on sites

Search Site and Web PartsOut of the Box Web Parts

• Demo!

Search Site and Web PartsOut of the Box Web Parts

SEARCH APIDevelopers Introduction to SharePoint Search

• Server– Microsoft.Office.Server.Search.Query

• Foundation– Microsoft.SharePoint.Search.Query

Search APINamespaces

• KeywordQuery – Simplified Queries• Property:Value – similar to standard search in UI

Search APIKeywordQuery

• FullTextSqlQuery - Supports rich, SQL-like queries• SELECT <columns>

FROM <content source>WHERE <conditions>ORDER BY <columns>

• Conditions– FREETEXT()– CONTAINS()

Search APIFullTextSqlQuery

• Example SELECT LastName, FirstName, JobTitle, Title, accountname FROM SCOPE() WHERE (\"scope\" = 'People')

AND CONTAINS(JobTitle, 'Manager') AND NOT CONTAINS(Department, '1099')

– Selects specific fields from people where JobTitle = Manager but does not include ‘1099’ because they are a contractor

Search APIFullTextSqlQuery

• Demo!

Search APISearch API Demo

USES FOR SEARCHDevelopers Introduction to SharePoint Search

• Rich Content Interactions– Interacting with Very Large Lists & Libraries– Listing Department members

• Content Without Site Boundaries– Cross-site navigation with security trimming– Aggregating content

Uses for Search

WRAP-UPDevelopers Introduction to SharePoint Search

• 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

Additional Resources

Questions?

Contact Info

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