1. 1 SharePoint 2013 Catalog Sites Brian Culver Build a SharePoint 2013 Search Driven Application

2. 2 Welcome to SharePoint Saturday Houston Please turn off all electronic devices or set them to vibrate If you must take a phone call, please do so in the hall so as not to disturb others Special thanks to our Title Sponsor, ProSymmetry Thank you for being a part of the 5 th Annual SharePoint Saturday for the greater Houston area!

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4. 4 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 15 th. Please join us at www.h-spug.org

5. 5 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

6. 6 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

7. 7 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

8. 8 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

9. 9 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.

10. 10 Advantages of a Search Driven Publishing Model Breakdown site collection boundariesEliminate large list thresholdsAllows for flexible & dynamic publishingSeparate presentation from storage

11. 11 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

12. 12 Product Catalog Architecture - Site Template

13. 13 Product Catalog Architecture - Content Types & Site Columns Content Types Site Columns

14. 14 Product Catalog Architecture The “Product” Content Type

15. 15 Product Catalog Architecture - Products List

16. 16 Build your Navigation Term Set Product Hierarchy

17. 17 Term Set Settings

18. 18 Term Set Navigation

19. 19 Product Catalog Page Architecture

20. 20 Audio Cameras Computers Home appliances Phones TV and video Adaptive experiences empower web developers to create portals based 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

21. 21 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 portals based on managed navigation and a few dynamic pages Search CONTENT SEARCH WEB PART Filter query by CATEGORY: Computers Product Catalog Page Architecture

22. 22 Content Search Web Part Content Search Web Parts CBQ without borders nicely themed Indexing Latency Simple to Add Simple to Edit Super Flexible

23. 23 Content Search Web Part Content Search Web Parts CBQ without borders nicely themed Indexing Latency Simple to Add Simple to Edit Super Flexible

24. 24 Search Driven Content Web Parts

25. 25 Display Templates Many options OOTB Create your own

26. 26 Display Templates Make your own in HTML & JavaScript Many ship Out-of the- Box Display Templates

27. 27 Query Builder IW focused UI based Allows “advanced mode” Provides Test & Preview Add Refiners Query Builder

28. 28 Query Rules IW focused Manipulate Search Results UI based Query Rules

29. 29 Catalog Settings..

30. 30 Catalog Settings..

31. 31 Catalog Enabling Catalog Connection Catalog Publishing

32. 32 Managed Navigation New Nav Provider Friendly URLS Product Catalog integration Terms can be site structures 1:1 binding of Site Collection to Term Set Managed Navigation

33. 33 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 topic pages capability for minimizing amount of physical pages for catalog type sites

34. 34 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

35. 35 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-branding Authoring 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

36. 36 Cross Site Publishing Why XSP?: 1.Need to Publish >1 location 2.Need a multilingual site 3.Need to separate authoring and publishing

37. 37 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 site 7.Upload page layouts and create new pages in a publishing site 8.Assign a category page and a catalog item page to a term 9.Configure the query in a Content Search Web Part on a category page 10.Configure the query in a Content Search Web Part on a catalog item page 11.Upload and apply display templates to the Content Search Web Part 12.Plan and Configure to use refiners for faceted navigation 13.Add refiners for faceted navigation to a publishing site 14.Add a Taxonomy Refinement Panel Web Part to a publishing site

38. 38 Product Catalog Demo

39. 39 New Site Search Admin Tasks  Just to summarize, here are things site admins can do to manage search themselves: Task Site 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

40. 40 Useful Links and Resources Technet Import Scripts – http://gallery.technet.microsoft.com/Import-list-content-to-f735d7fb http://gallery.technet.microsoft.com/Import-list-content-to-f735d7fb Check for the Latest Slide Deck – http://www.slideshare.net/bculver http://www.slideshare.net/bculver Videos for Search Driven Sites – https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xTVW5fqafy4 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xTVW5fqafy4 – https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-dJ9k2hu11o https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-dJ9k2hu11o

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44. 44 Thank you! Brian Culver, MCM Twitter: @spbrianculver E-mail: brian.culver@expertpointsolutions.com Blog: http://blog.expertpointsolutions.com/ http://blog.expertpointsolutions.com/ Slides: http://www.slideshare.net/bculver