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Advanced Search in Sitecore using Solr Sitecore User Group Meetup November 2016, Copenhagen

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Or the story about … … how you can leverage the ContentSearch API to create a more generic, configurable way, of working with search queries in Sitecore

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I’m working as a System Consultant at Pentia A/S in Copenhagen. Currently I'm developing a lot of different solutions using .NET, ASP.NET and Sitecore. Twitter: @soren_engel Blog: soen.ghost.io

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The journey | How we normally use the ContentSearch API | The (hidden) problems that comes along | Towards a solution | Next steps | I’ll do my best to answer your questions!

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How we normally use the ContentSearch API

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Let’s look at an example Step 1 Figure out what you should query Step 2 Create your custom search query logic Step 3 Present search results to the user

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The (hidden) problems that comes along…

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| The query only exists in code | Changes to the search query requires two things A developer A deploy | Time to market is slowed down | Cost (even small changes can be expensive) | Difficult to personalize search queries Yes, there are some issues…

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Towards a solution

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| Goals | Rethinking the concept | Making an architecture that supports the goals | Looking at the solution (code) so far (includes a demo) The steps towards a solution…

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Goals

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| Enable search query configuration without code changes | Allow specifying nested search query structures for complex queries | Allow a search query to either react to values provided dynamically, or by using preset default values | Use the ContentSearch API as the underlying interface for querying search results | Make it possible to vary search queries based on personalization | Enable extensibility What should the goals be?

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Thinking about the concept … “Configurable Search”

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Making an architecture that supports the goals

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Looking at the solution, the code, and a demo

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Next steps

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| Finalizing the configuration from within Sitecore | Add unit tests | Write documentation | Add new features: Paging, Sorting, Facets, and so on | Conjunction will be open sourced on GitHub! | Follow along my blog for more details on the API, and be sure to give me feedback So, what’s coming up?

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Pentia A/S Zeppelinerhallen Islands Brygge 55 2300 København S CVR 20 86 88 72 T +45 33 74 33 94 E [email protected]