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SharePoint 2013 Catalog Sites
Brian Culver
Build a SharePoint 2013 Search Driven Application
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Welcome to SharePoint Saturday Houston
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• Special thanks to our Title Sponsor, ProSymmetry
Thank you for being a part of the
5th Annual SharePoint Saturday
for the greater Houston area!
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Thanks to all our Sponsors!
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Information
• Speaker presentation slides should be available from the SPSHOU website within a week or so
• The Houston SharePoint User Group will be having it’s next meeting Wednesday April 15th. Please join us at www.h-spug.org
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About Brian Culver
– SharePoint Solutions Architect for Expert Point Solutions
– Based in Houston, TX
– Author• ProveIT!
• SharePoint 2010 Unleashed
• Various White Papers
– Speaker and Blogger
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Session Agenda
• What is a Search Driven site?
• Search Driven Publishing Model
– Catalog Architecture
– Managed Navigation
– Content By Search Web Part
– Display Templates
– Query Builder
– Query Rules
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What is a Search Driven Site?
A site driven by search … right? • Sounds complicated until you see it.• Examples:
– Best Buy– Amazon
Core Concepts• Navigation Driven by metadata• Published Content is the focus• Site Structure very simple
Implementation• Two Publishing Pages• Friendly URLs• Content can be anywhere
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What is a Search Driven Site?
A site driven by search … right? • Sounds complicated until you see it.• Examples:
– Best Buy– Amazon
Core Concepts• Navigation Driven by metadata• Published Content is the focus• Site Structure very simple
Implementation• Two Publishing Pages• Friendly URLs• Content can be anywhere
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The Search Driven Publishing Model
The Product Catalog site
• Used for content storage
• Product Content Type
• Taxonomy
The Publishing site
• Presentation Layer
• Display Templates
• Content By Search Webpart
The Publishing site consumes the catalog
data and presents it to the end user.
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Advantages of a Search Driven Publishing Model
Breakdown site collection boundaries
Eliminate large list thresholds
Allows for flexible & dynamic publishing
Separate presentation from storage
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The Blocks of the Search Driven Publishing Model?
Product Catalog Site
Content Catalogs
Managed Navigation
Content Types
Publishing Site
Query Builder
Query Rules
Display Templates
Content Search
Web Parts
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Product Catalog Architecture - Site Template
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Product Catalog Architecture - Content Types & Site Columns
• Content Types
• Site Columns
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Product Catalog Architecture
The “Product” Content Type
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Product Catalog Architecture - Products List
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Build your Navigation Term Set
• Product Hierarchy
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Term Set Settings
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Term Set Navigation
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Product Catalog Page Architecture
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Audio
Cameras
Computers
Home appliances
Phones
TV and video
Adaptive experiences empower web developers to create portalsbased on managed navigation and a few dynamic pages
Audio
Cameras
Computers
Home appliances
Phones
TV and video
Friendly URL
http://contoso.com/cameras
Use page
maincategory.asp
x
Search
CONTENT SEARCH WEB
PART
TERM STORE
NAVIGATION
TAXONOMY
Filter query by
CATEGORY: Cameras
Product Catalog Page Architecture
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Audio
Cameras
Computers
Home appliances
Phones
TV and video
TERM STORE
NAVIGATION
TAXONOMY
Friendly URL
http://contoso.com/computers
Use page
maincategory.asp
x
Adaptive experiences empower web developers to create portalsbased on managed navigation and a few dynamic pages
Search
CONTENT SEARCH WEB
PART
Filter query by
CATEGORY: Computers
Product Catalog Page Architecture
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Content Search Web Part
Content Search Web Parts
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Content Search Web Part
Content Search Web Parts
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Search Driven Content Web Parts
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Display Templates
• Many options OOTB
• Create your own
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Display Templates
Make your own in HTML & JavaScript
Many ship Out-of the-Box
Display Templates
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Query Builder
IW focusedUI based
Allows “advanced
mode”
Provides Test &
Preview
Add Refiners
Query Builder
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Query Rules
IW focused
Manipulate Search Results
UI based
Query Rules
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Catalog Settings..
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Catalog Settings..
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Catalog Enabling Catalog Connection
Catalog Publishing
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Managed Navigation
New NavProvider
Friendly URLSProduct Catalog
integration
Terms can be site
structures
1:1 binding of Site
Collection to Term Set
Managed Navigation
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Managed navigation
• Drive your navigation and URLs based on Term Store hierarchies
• Clean URLs for actual end users
– www.contoso.com/careers
– www.contoso.com/aboutus
• Define settings for navigation in terms store manager
• Provides also dynamic topicpages capability for minimizingamount of physical pages for catalog type sites
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Refiners and faceted navigation
• Define refiners for catalog content drill down in catalog drive scenarios
• Provides easy filtering capabilities for catalog information
• Content editors can define which managed properties are available as refinements
• UI rending can be customized for each refiner
• Different data types have different rendering options
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Cross Site Publishing
“Create content in an Authoring environment and use it in any one of your SharePoint publishing environments.”
Cross Site Publishing
URL manipulation
Multi-brandingAuthoring and
Production tiers
Multilingual
Things to know:
1. This is not content deployment
2. Requires the Publishing feature
3. Requires a Catalog
Flexibility in Page Content
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Cross Site Publishing
Why XSP?:1. Need to Publish >1 location
2. Need a multilingual site
3. Need to separate authoring and publishing
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Steps for Configure a Catalog Site
1. Create site collections for cross-site publishing.• Product Catalog Site
• Publishing Site
2. Import/Build (Products) list content into the Product Catalog Site.3. How to enable a list as a catalog.4. Set up search and enable crawling of your catalog content.5. Connect Catalog in your Publishing site.6. Upload and apply a new master page to a publishing site7. Upload page layouts and create new pages in a publishing site8. Assign a category page and a catalog item page to a term9. Configure the query in a Content Search Web Part on a category page10.Configure the query in a Content Search Web Part on a catalog item page11.Upload and apply display templates to the Content Search Web Part12.Plan and Configure to use refiners for faceted navigation13.Add refiners for faceted navigation to a publishing site14.Add a Taxonomy Refinement Panel Web Part to a publishing site
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Product Catalog Demo
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New Site Search Admin Tasks
Just to summarize, here are things site admins can do to manage search themselves:
TaskSite
Collection Admin
Site Admin
Create and/or override Query Rules, including Promoted Results
Create and/or override Result types and display templates
Create and/or override Result Sources, either for remote locations or as a custom search “vertical”
Create managed properties
Create refiners
Start a local crawl – can even be done down to the list level
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Useful Links and Resources
• Technet Import Scripts– http://gallery.technet.microsoft.com/Import-list-content-to-f735d7fb
• Check for the Latest Slide Deck– http://www.slideshare.net/bculver
• Videos for Search Driven Sites– https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xTVW5fqafy4
– https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-dJ9k2hu11o
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Thank you!
Brian Culver, MCM
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