Part III: Search Driven Application in vNext of Office
365 / SharePoint Online and some thoughts of working with external data in
Office 365 / SharePoint Online and the opportunities in the context of Search
Driven Solutions.
In Part
I and Part
II we talked about what we can do in the context of Search Driven Solution
with Office 365 / SharePoint Online (all this also worked with the new version).
Now let’s have a look what further options we have with the new version of
Office 365 and SharePoint 2013.
Firs lets
have a look of what is new in Office 365 in the context of Search. The absolute
highlight is that we now have a Search Admin Site like in an on-premise
installation. I wrote about this is my common blog post series about news in
SharePoint 2013 Search PART
I
Let me
centralize the main benefit for Search Driven Applications:
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We
can now pool and merge crawled and managed properties like in an on-premise installation.
:
PIC…
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We
can create own managed properties with all the functions like Sortable, Queryable
etc…
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We
can use the new feature Query
Builder
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Context
can be focused to logged on user without writing code
Using the keyword filter: “Name of
the user who runs the query”
In
SharePoint 2013 Search became a really centralized and powerful role. Many of
this new features and Out-Of-The-Box stuff is also available in SharePoint 2013
Online. For example “All my documents” based on an Out-Of-The-Box Webpart.:
In the
Office 365 / SharePoint Online BETA a basic Webpart category which is part of
the on-premise BETA is missing. It’s the Search-Driven Content category:
Downloading
this Webparts from an on-premise installation and upload those to SharePoint Online
would work. But poorly the Webpart do not show any content. As you see in the
screenshot the “search result preview” tab shows content covering the given
properties. But saving Webpart itself keep empty after saving the settings. So I
hope this function is coming up in the final version of SharePoint 2013 online
(maybe the reason is that “continuous crawling” feature is not active for
Content Sources in SharePoint Online…).
Let’s come
now to External Data in SharePoint 2013 Online and what we can do in the
context of Search and Search Driven Solutions.
External
Data Data is not new in Office 365 / SharePoint Online. The good news is that
we can now also use oData. For details have a look here: LINK
If have
integrates this in my demo system:
Bad news
are:
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We
cannot configure Content Sources in SharePoint Online Search Administration. So
we cannot crawl this data. And therefore we cannot use them in Search / Search
Driven Context.
All we can
do is using the Tagging feature and the search for stuff which is tagged with a
specific tag. Or we can use the External List as a lookup source. The lookup
filed is the of cause part of the search index in the associated list field.
So hope
that some features of the on-premise featureset will became part of the final
version of new Office 365 / SharePoint Online.
where is part 4 ?
AntwortenLöschenHi, there is no part 4 in this context. During the next weeks I will come out with a new / an additional story about the search driven publishing model, also with a look at O365.
LöschenRegards
Nick