The following questions and answers are from Marwan’s latest webinar ‘Using SharePoint 2013 Search in Content Publishing‘ with the European SharePoint Communty.
Q: can we have authoring in English and publishing it in many different languages on various sites by using cross site publishing functionality
A: Yes you can authoring in English and publish to multiple but the translation will not done automatically.
Q: Do you have any link where we can get the syntax for writing the Query text
A: Query variables in SharePoint Server 2013
Using the Content Search web part (and understanding SP2013 search)
Q: Will the users need to tag the content or do we have any automatic tagging so that it appears in refiners?
A: Tagging content enhances the search results and allows refiners to filter search results based on the matching tags. You can use entity extraction to generated refiners from unstructured content or there are 3rd party tools can auto-classify the content.
Q: When you are using office webapps for doing co-authoring in a document .xlsx or .docx. SharePoint does not actually allow Macros or tables in the .xlsx doc, document does not open in browser for editing in the broswer, do you have any thoughts on this, as you mentioned about office web apps in your presentation?
A: Office web apps is a light version of Microsoft office, it is doesn’t support all native features.
Check supported file formats here>>
Q: How often will the content gets indexed?
A: This is can be scheduled using search service application. You can configure full crawl and incremental crawl, and you can configure their schedule.
Q: is this move forward for SharePoint, to make it better in web content management and for public sites and not restrict itself as an intranet as seen in SharePoint 2010
A: Of course all these features we explored are designed for web content management scenario and they position SharePoint as a strong WCM platform. In addition these features can be used in intranet, extranet and internet sites scenarios.
Q: Question about Content Search Webpart. Is it possible to set up default values for filtering. Like if query string is? Name=peter then use value peter in filter on author but if querystring doesn’t contains this parameter then use default filter=thomas?
A: You will need to do custom development.
A: you will need to create site column its type is managed metadata and add it to your content type.
Q: You use CSWP as a home page to display contents. Is it good approach to show such dynamic content in home pahe, as every morning hundreds of enterprise users will be logging into the site to see homepage. Wouldn’t that cause performance issues?
A: if you have completed your capacity and sizing exercise, it should not be a problem.
Q: How do you set up the cross site publishing? Is it approval or a time job?
A: you need to enable cross site publishing feature, then enable your source list to be a catalog and configure your publishing site to use this catalog. Configure cross-site publishing in SharePoint Server 2013
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Marwan Tarek is a recognized industry expert in collaboration technologies, enterprise content management, search and software development. Since SharePoint 2003 release, Marwan has been building SharePoint solutions for a diversity of industry sectors across United Kingdom and Middle East.Marwan worked for ITWorx and Microsoft for the past 8 years and currently is Principal Technology Strategist at BrightStarr in the UK.He is a SharePoint community leader and Microsoft Most Valuable Professional Award (MVP) since 2008.
