By Dennis Clemente
If you’re going to talk about the product you’re championing, you might as well do it in your own backyard, right? Last January 9, the SharePoint MeetUp group covered the topic, “Search-Driven Design Patterns for SharePoint 2013” at the Microsoft office at 1290 Avenue of the Americas.
For the uninitiated, Microsoft’s SharePoint 2013 is about how organizations work together and optimize how people work. Essentially, it’s a collaborative platform. The goal: to run your business more efficiently.
The group tackled search queries from a design pattern perspective. Comparing the 2010 with the 2013 launched a healthy exchange of ideas about SharePoint2013 helps in idea sharing, organizing teams and projects, and discovering people and information. In many of these classes, though, you just hope there was a brand it could have talked about as an example; Home Depot was mentioned albeit briefly.
Nicholas Bisciotti, one of the attendees, liked the topics that were raised, but he thinks it would be good to “resolve” them in the next session
• Role-based search solutions based on job function, where person is, who they are (possibly with rank profile)
• SharePoint 2013 Search with non-SharePoint UI
• SharePoint 2013 Search for mobile
• Leveraging geographical data in Search
It’s also good to know SharePoint has gone social—and it would be great to watch that tackled by a group already immersed in the SharePoint platform in the next meetup of this solemn, more studious group.