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SharePoint Thing a Day – 070 – SharePoint Search. Result Types and Display Templates.

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Result Types and Display Templates

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#spthingaday 070 – SharePoint Search. Result Types and Display Templates. #SharePoint, #Office365, #SharePointOnline, #SharePointSearch.. SharePoint on-premise and Classic Search Pages in SharePoint Online allow you to fully customise how results – and other Search Web Parts – are displayed. This is done with snippets of HTML and JavaScript called Display Templates. These templates live beneath the Master Page Gallery in the Site Collection where the Search was performed. Whenever you run a query from a Search Box, the results are rendered out with a Display Template by the Search Results Web Part. Each kind of Search Result you get back can be displayed with a different Template. The mapping between type of result item, and Display Template is achieved through Result Types. You define these in the Site Collection where you perform the search, and not in Central Administration. There are built in ones for all the default document types – Word, Excel, PowerPoint and many others. Making your own templates require some HTML knowledge. There's a similar process to customise results from the Content Search, Search Box and Refinement Web Parts. #microsoft #microsoftoffice #microsoftsharepoint #microsofttraining #officetraining #freetraining #trainingvideos #contentmanagement #enterprisecontentmanagement

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SharePoint on-premise and Classic Search Pages in SharePoint Online allow you to fully customise how results – and other Search Web Parts – are displayed.

This is done with snippets of HTML and JavaScript called Display Templates.

These templates live beneath the Master Page Gallery in the Site Collection where the Search was performed.

Whenever you run a query from a Search Box, the results are rendered out with a Display Template by the Search Results Web Part.

Each kind of Search Result you get back can be displayed with a different Template.

The mapping between type of result item, and Display Template is achieved through Result Types.

You define these in the Site Collection where you perform the search, and not in Central Administration.

There are built in ones for all the default document types – Word, Excel, PowerPoint and many others.

Making your own templates require some HTML knowledge.

There’s a similar process to customise results from the Content Search, Search Box and Refinement Web Parts.

SharePoint Thing a Day – 069 – SharePoint Search. Crawl Rules vs Crawler Impact Rules.

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Crawl Rules vs Crawler Impact Rules

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#spthingaday 069 – SharePoint Search. Crawl Rules vs Crawler Impact Rules. #SharePoint, #SharePointSearch.. SharePoint Search has two similar sounding configurable options that are easy to confuse. They do two very different jobs. Crawl Rules allows you configure how SharePoint crawls within a Content Source. You use them to tell SharePoint what, and as whom to crawl. For instance "when you crawl this path, use these credentials" …or "exclude this path from crawling." Crawler Impact Rules tells SharePoint how hard to crawl a path within a Content Source. For example, if you've set up SharePoint to index itself efficiently, you can create a rule that states: "crawl this path as fast as you can, with up to 8 documents at a time" However, if you're trying to include in your index content from a rickety old SharePoint farm in your shiny, new one, you might want to create a more limiting Crawler Impact Rule: e.g. "crawl this path with at most one document at a time, and leave 60 seconds between each one." #microsoft #microsoftoffice #microsoftsharepoint #microsofttraining #officetraining #freetraining #trainingvideos #contentmanagement #enterprisecontentmanagement

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SharePoint Search has two similar sounding configurable options that are easy to confuse.

They do two very different jobs.

Crawl Rules allows you configure how SharePoint crawls within a Content Source.

You use them to tell SharePoint what, and as whom to crawl.

For instance “when you crawl this path, use these credentials” …or “exclude this path from crawling.” Crawler Impact Rules tells SharePoint how hard to crawl a path within a Content Source.

For example, if you’ve set up SharePoint to index itself efficiently, you can create a rule that states: “crawl this path as fast as you can, with up to 8 documents at a time”

However, if you’re trying to include in your index content from a rickety old SharePoint farm in your shiny, new one, you might want to create a more limiting Crawler Impact Rule:

e.g. “crawl this path with at most one document at a time, and leave 60 seconds between each one.”