Advanced Concepts in sharepoint 2013 ---1

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What are Search Centers?
SharePoint Out-of-the-Box comes with 2 site definitions:
1. Basic Search Center
2. Enterprise Search Center
These site definitions create pages with pre-configured web parts. Please note that there will be multiple pages included in the site definition:
1. Search page
2. Result page
3. Refiner pages

Difference between Basic & Enterprise Search Centers

Enterprise Search Centers provide following advantages over Basic:
1. It allows searching over external contents & web applications.
2. Video search is supported
3. Enterprise Search Center provides Navigation Verticals.
4. Recommendations feature
5. Query Rules - Advanced Actions
Following is the Navigation Vertical. Each link will take to another result page.

What are Search Verticals?

Search Verticals are categorization of contents based on different types like Content, People, Conversations and Videos. Each Vertical can be configured against a Result Types.

What is Search Refiner?

Refiner is a Managed Property based on Search Index. We can use Search Refiners to narrow down search results. Following is an example of Search Refiners.
Through advanced configuration & Scripting, we can modify the Visual Refiners as well.

What is Faceted Navigation?

Faceted means Smooth. Faceted navigation is the process of browsing for content by filtering on refiners that are tied to category pages.
What is Result Source?
Result Source (Vertical) is a sub set or particular type of content. They are used to limit search results.
For example, we can use Result Source for a particular:
1. Content Type
2. Sub Site
3 Types of Apps
The 3 types of Apps are:

  1. Immersive Apps (Full Page)
  2. App-Parts (Similar to web parts)
  3. Custom UI Actions App (Menu items, Ribbon buttons etc.)

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