Microsoft SharePoint 2013 has been extremely popular with organisations looking for a collaboration platform, intranet portals, content & document management, extranet, websites and a whole host of other use cases. The solution can be easily integrated into virtually any other system and has the ability to provide workflows for information management and automate business processes.
The development of our solution borns from the need to extend the basic functionality of Sharepoint search. The research in the microsoft’s platform, works like google, infact it is based on keywords contained in the documents / folders of Sharepoint.
I recently got a request from a client that had a lot of employee engagement around blogging and they wanted to bring that front and center on their intranet home page.
The growth in the number of PDF documents has exploded. As a result, there are numerous times when users need to locate specific PDF files to comply with IT governance, legal concerns, industry regulations, and more.
What is the most important content of a Corporate Intranet? Of course it’s the menu of the factory canteen and the Corporate News. Although it would be worthwhile to have a close look on how to implement the menu, I will focus on the Corporate News in this blog post. If you create a corporate intranet you’ll probably use several site collections. In most cases the Corporate News is going to be displayed on the intranet’s home page and the news items are stored in a generic list or in an announcements list.
The concept of refiners is not new, it’s been in SharePoint since the version 2010. But there was a big difference between SharePoint 2010’s refiners and FAST Search for SharePoint’s refiners: while we had shallow refiners in SharePoint 2010 (SP2010), we had deep refiners with item counts in FAST Search for SharePoint (FS4SP). I’ve made a comparison on them earlier, please find my related blog post here.
Recently, I’ve got a question about file naming conventions versus Search: which characters can be really used as word breakers, eg. replacing spaces in file names (see Susan Hanley’s great post about the file naming conventions here).
Alright, you might also call it “adding to rumors around sharepoint 2013 search and FAST features” because until RTM comes out, we might see few things cut or added .
SharePoint 2013 has an array of new features across different workloads. Enterprise search is one of the workloads that encompass a lot of updates and enhancements. This blog article lists the main new features that have been enhanced/added to SharePoint 2013.
Search functionality in SharePoint 2013 Preview includes several enhancements including custom content processing with the Content Enrichment web service, and a new framework for presenting search result types. Additionally, there have been significant enhancements made to the keyword query language (KQL). Search is a hot topic within SharePoint 2013, below is a summary of some of the search enhancements:
