Content Search Web Part in SharePoint 2013
Introduction:
The Content Search Web Part (CSWP) is a Web Part introduced in
SharePoint 2013 that uses various styling options to display dynamic content on
SharePoint pages.
How the Content Search Web Part works
Content Search Web Part displays search results in a way that
you can easily format. Each Content Search Web Part is associated with a search
query and shows the results for that search query.
You can use display templates to change how search results appear
on the page. Display templates are snippets of HTML and JavaScript that render
the information returned by SharePoint. The information to be displayed gets
inserted into the page in JSON format.
When
to use the Content Search Web Part (CSWP) or the Content Query Web Part (CQWP)
The CSWP can return any content from the search index. Use it on
your SharePoint 2013 sites when you are connecting to a search service and want
to return indexed search results in your pages.
The CSWP returns content that is as fresh as the latest crawl of
your content, so if you crawl often, the content that the CSWP returns is more
up-to-date than if you crawl infrequently. If you need to display instant
content or the refreshed version of content, use the Content Query Web Part
(CQWP) instead.
Search crawls only the major versions of content, never the
minor versions. If you want to display the minor versions of your content, do
that by using a CQWP.
Some site collection administrators mark sites to not be
indexed. Content marked in this way is not available in a CSWP. If you want to
return results from a site that is marked to not index, use the CQWP instead.
