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Tutorials & How-Tos

To help you to get started with the countless combinations you can have with the MDV solution, we provide you some prebuilt scenarios and how-tos.

Tutorials provide complete step-by-step confgurations for common enteprise secenarios and "how-to" format focuses on specific needed configurations for a granular, particular use case

➡ From the aequos team

Tutorial Description
Build a complete search center Learn how to build a complete custom search center leveraging all components from MDV
Build a people directory using alphabetical verticals, Microsoft Graph data source and adaptive expressions Learn how to build a people directory for your organization usin Microsoft Graph.
Build a people directory using alphabetical verticals and SharePoint Search data source Same as above but using SharePoint search data source.
Build a teams search app using aequos MDV, Microsoft Graph extensions, and SharePoint taxonomy Learn how to build a specific search interface for your Teams using custom metadata.
Use taxonomy filters with SharePoint search data source Learn how to use taxonomy based filters with SharePoint search data source.
Build taxonomy tag filters bar using Data Visualizer Web Part item selection capability Build a filter bar using taxonomy terms and item selection feature.

➡ From the PnP community

You can also refer to scenarios made by the community for the PnP Modern Search v4 solution.

How-Tos

How to: Use the taxonomy picker with OData/SharePoint REST API data source
  1. Add a 'Data Visualizer' Web Part on the page amd select the 'OData' data source and then SharePoint REST API

  2. In the Url field, use the following query :

https://<your_site>/_api/web/Lists/GetByTitle('<yout_list_title>')/Items?&$select=*${if(empty('{filters}'),'',concat("&$filter=", buildOdataFilterCondition(json('{filters}'))))}
  1. Add a 'Data Filters' Web Part on the page an configure the filters like this using the TaxCatchAll/IdforTerm:

"Default URL for OData data source"