Refiners in SharePoint 2013 Search

We will try to understand how refiners work in SharePoint 2013 here.

Refiner webpart passes a Jason object in url .



1. Go to view all site content ( http://servername/sites/var/_layouts/15/viewlsts.aspx)

2. Create a Custom List similar to mentioned below :

Column TermSetColumnPOC ( Allow multiple values) is linked to a termset withTerms :

Term1 , Term2 , Term3 , Term4 , Term5 ,Term6 , Term7 , Term8 ,Term9

I want my search result page to display results  when "Term8"  is present in column TermSetColumnPOC or NormalColumnPOC  . I will also provide a filter , which will hide the results which don't have "Term8"  present in column TermSetColumnPOC .

2. Populate data in custom List :

Searching "Term1" should give items hk1 , hk4 , hk7, hk9

Searching "Term8" should give hk1, hk6,hk8

Now applying Refiner on "TermSetColumnPOC" equal to value  "Term8"  should give only hk1,hk8

3. Create a Content Source under Search administration in central admin which contain only your test web application to be crawled . This is not a mandate , but will expedite this process of testing refiners , as you will drastically reduce crawling time.

Run a full crawl on this search content source.

4.   Search Service application > Search Schema

Create a managed property "TermSetColumnPOCManaged" as mentioned below

5. Run full crawl  again.



6. After this crawl is over , you can test refiners in your search center . I don't want one so , I will create my own simple page.

7.  Enable site collection feature "Search Server Web Parts and Templates"

8.  Create a simple web part page and insert below mentioned webpart on page

Search Box , Search results , Refinement

9. Under Webpart properties of refinement  webpart choose TermSetColumnPOCManaged as one of the available refiners.

10 . Publish and approve this page .

11.  Type "Term1"  in search box or Type url   http://......./search1.aspx#k=Term1

11.1 Type "Term8"  in search box or Type url   http://......./search1.aspx#k=Term8

11.2 Type "Term8"  in search box and Click on "Term8"   in Refiners

( use url decode to understand what is being passed in url )

or

http://......./search1.aspx#Default={"k":"Term8","r":[{"n":"TermSetColumnPOCManaged","t":["\"ǂǂ5465726d38\""],"o":"and","k":false,"m":null}]}

( here equivalent json object is passed as parameter )

or

http://......./search1.aspx#Default={"k":"Term8","r":[{"n":"TermSetColumnPOCManaged","t":["\"Term8\""],"o":"and","k":false,"m":null}]}

( here equivalent json object is passed as parameter  but with Term display value )

11.3 search "TermSetColumnPOCManaged:Term8"  or 

type url  http://......./search1.aspx#k=TermSetColumnPOCManaged:Term8

Another example of JASON with Refiners and Search core result webpart :

On the same page Search "Term1" , and in Refiners , select "Term1"



or type url :

http://......./search1.aspx#Default={"k":"Term1","r":[{"n":"TermSetColumnPOCManaged","t":["\"Term1\""],"o":"and","k":false,"m":null}]}

The result in both ways :

One more example of jason with Search result page :

On the same page Search "Term1" , and in Refiners , select "Term9"

or type url :

http://......./search1.aspx#Default={"k":"Term1","r":[{"n":"TermSetColumnPOCManaged","t":["\"Term9\""],"o":"and","k":false,"m":null}]}

Result both ways comes to be :

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In one of the implementations, we had to do asynchronous calls to multiple SharePoint Lists for better UI and user experience.

For better performance and managed solution, we exposed a custom web service which takes care of all the data manipulations and returns desired result set / exposes methods to do required operations.

Here is a Proof of concept code snippet which might be helpful to you to call web services using JQuery.Ajax  :

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url: Uri, // Location of the service
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cache: false, // no-cache
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http://get-spscripts.com/2011/06/removing-features-from-content-database.html

or

http://featureadmin.codeplex.com/downloads/get/290833

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When search crawler [SPSCrawl.asmx and sitedata.asmx ] comes to a SharePoint site , how it gets to know whether it's a SharePoint site or a normal site ?

There is a custom header defined by Microsoft on SharePoint web applications : Name : MicrosoftSharePointTeamServices ; Value like : 14.0.0.4762

It tells crawler to dig to the item levels in SharePoint Lists , treat target as SharePoint Site.....



What if this custom header is removed on target ? :--> Search crawler will crawl up to list level only . If we use fiddler, while crawling site collection you could observe , there is no call made to SPSCrawl.asmx and sitedata.asmx by the crawler. This web application will no more be treated as SharePoint Website by Search crawl.
Now to make your site secure , you want that hackers may not get these custom headers , but search crawlers need it .
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Here is the solution to this :


using (SPWeb web = properties.Feature.Parent as SPWeb)
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I am getting response of a page like :

System.Net.HttpWebRequest  request  ...

request.Credentials...

request.Method = ...

request.UserAgent =..

(System.Net.HttpWebResponse)request.GetResponse();

receiveStream = response.GetResponseStream();

readStream = new StreamReader(receiveStream, Encoding.UTF8);

string pageContent = readStream.ReadToEnd();

Now out of this string pageContent    , I want to extract all sub request and make them a hit.   Is there something better than html agility pack for this ?

Reply 1 By http://social.msdn.microsoft.com/profile/joel%20engineer/?ws=usercard-mini

I usually read it into an htmlDocument Class and the use either GetElementByID or GetElementsByTagname()

 

 

 

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jdweng

 

Reply 2 

You should try http://htmlagilitypack.codeplex.com/

I am searching something better dear.