SXA Tags are not searchable

Question

I'm using Sitecore 9 and SXA 1.7, I want when the user enters a SXA tag name, all the items tagged by this tag are returned at the search results.

I tried it but no results are returned, I checked the Solr, the tag is indexed : sxatags_sm":["Visitor"].

I made the _Taggable and the Tag templates inherits from _Searchable template and rebuilt the index, but still it's not searchable.

Answer 1

If I understand you correctly you would like to use Search Box to search item by tags. By the default, it is not possible because Search Box is using Aggregated Content (this field in the index will be named sxacontent) computed field. This field contains only extracted text content of an item and tags are assigned as an IDs.

You have a few options:

• override AggregatedContent computed field (method ComputeFieldValue()) so that it will also include tags names into the sxacontent index field - in such case Search Box will work as you expect it
• override ContentPredicate() method in Search Service so that instead of just checking AggregatedContent field it will also take a look for tags
• re-design your approach and use Filter (Checklist) rendering with tags

I would recommend using the third option. If you would like to take a more advanced approach go with the first option as overriding Search Service is more tricky than simply config update which you have in a first proposition.