Questions tagged [azure-search]
Anything related to Azure Search: querying, configuring, maintaining, ... Azure (PaaS) replacement for Solr and Lucene.
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How to index sxa tags in azure search and show them in rendering variant of search results [duplicate]
We are using SXA 1.8.1 , Sitecore 9.0.2 and azure search
we want to show tags for each item in search results.
I created tags under "Tag repository"(under system -> settings) item, the created ...
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Creating a new index in Azure Search for Sitecore 9 Helix structured
Background: I am completely new to Azure Search in general. New to SOLR, Lucene the whole thing. I have a good bit of experience in SQL design for indexes and such, but this seems completely different....
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Date field not showing in Azure Search results
I have a regular date field defined like this:
<field type="System.DateTime" fieldName="entry_date" cloudFieldName="entry_date" searchable="NO" retrievable="YES" facetable="YES" filterable="YES" ...
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Resolve PostFailedForSomeDocumentsException exception during indexing
During (manually triggered) indexing of the master database, I get the following exception (stack trace below). Using Sitecore 8.2u7 with SXA 1.7.
27608 10:43:03 ERROR [Index=sitecore_master_index] ...
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SXA checklist filter doesnt return facets with count 0 when used with azure search
I am currently using Sitecore version 9.0.2 and SXA version 1.8.1
Requirement : -
In checklist filter, I want to show all the facets irrespective of the results.
If for a facet the result is not ...
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Excluding template fields from indexing - difference between documentOptions exclusion vs regular exclusion
I reducing the number of fields which get indexed in my site.
I looked at App_Config\Include\Sitecore.ContentSearch.Azure.DefaultIndexConfiguration.config and see the section
<configuration
<...
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Using Geospatial Features Implemented in SXA with a Custom Search Index - Run-time Error
After manually implementing support for the Edm.GeographyPoint field type (per Is it possible to get Azure Search to support EDM.GeographyPoint?), I was happy to notice an answer on a related question ...
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Techniques and Rules to Eliminating Template fields from Indexing
I am investigating my site's indexing and looking at working around the Azure Search index 1000 field limit (see here Rebuilding Sitecore Core Index on Azure search throwing exceeding index limitation ...
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Sitecore SXA Azure Search Facets Returning 400 Bad Request when there are more than 50 results
I have a search page that is working correctly on my local instance using SOLR, but when we move the page to our AZURE Instance it fails. The AZURE Instance is using AZURE Search instead SOLR. If I ...
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Not finding SXA Rich text rendering content in search results
In our SXA site we make use of the OOTB rich text renderings. I was hoping the content of these would be available in the search results - pointing to the containing page as the result. I notice ...
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Azure Search index including too many fields
Configuration: Sitecore 9.0.2, Azure PaaS
As most of us know by now, Azure Search has a hard limit on the number of fields that can be added to an index (1000). To resolve this issue in our ...
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Azure search random behavior running for Sitecore 9.0.2
I am having issue with the Azure Search where I am not getting results from the search index (it is random issue).
I’ve verified the configurations of Azure search and computed index fields. Below is ...
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Index stops updating after a search query
I'm using Sitecore 9.0.2 with Azure Search and Solr.
I have the weirdest search issue I've seen in a while. Take the following steps:
Restart the application (iisreset or similar)
Rebuild the search ...
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Sitecore sxa checklist facets in search are not loading when using azure search
I am using SXA 1.8 with Sitecore 9.0.2. I wanted to add a checklist facet to my search, as I am using Azure Search, I added the field to be indexed like below in a custom config file.
<include ...
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Azure Search SwitchOnRebuild returns no results
I have created a separate publishing target (Production). I have created a separate index for this database (sitecore_prod_index).
I rebuild my index, and it returns results.
I rebuild again, no ...
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Azure Search Indexes are not being added/populated
I am trying to configure azure search in Sitecore. I followed this article to configure it.
But when I try to rebuild the indexes, the number of units processed is empty and the indexes are not ...
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Patching Azure Search config files and deploy on Sitecore Azure PaaS
Our application (Sitecore 9.0.2 SXA 1.8) is currently running on Azure PaaS with Azure Search as Search service
Recently we ran into this problem of master index exceeding 1000 field Limit
we ...
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Sitecore 9.0.2 SXA 1.8 PaaS Azure Search Configuration
This is the first time we working on Azure Search and Sitecore SXA
we are facing a problem related to
Exception: Sitecore.ContentSearch.Azure.Http.Exceptions.AzureSearchServiceRESTCallException ...
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Response from azure search in portal and on Sitecore UI is different
Environment: Sitecore 9.0.2 XP0 + SXA 1.8.0 + Azure search
What I have done: My data is indexed in the index of Azure Search. I have added the search box and search result with custom scope '...
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Azure search with SXA
Environment: SXA 1.8 in Azure PAAS + Azure search
What I have: My client has multiple offices and each office has its individual page managed with SXA. The fields on this page include address and ...
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Azure Search duplicate results for multilingual countries in same site with different language versions
We have a multi-lingual site where the group of countries (say for example Asia Region) is hosted in one Site folder.
Thus Home, Pages, Settings have different language versions (zh-HK, en-HK, en-AU)...
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Getting the primary Azure Search Index name after index re-build
We are using Azure Search on Sitecore 8.2 update 7 and have enabled switch on rebuild.
This is documented here: https://doc.sitecore.com/developers/91/platform-administration-and-architecture/en/zero-...
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Azure Search FilterOn Linq Not Working
I am running Sitecore 9 update 2 on Azure Web App, with Azure Search. I am trying to use the Sitecore Facet Support, that works completely fine with Solr, but having no luck at all with Azure.
So my ...
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SXA Custom index not used by Search Results component
Following the SXA documentation Configure SXA indexing, I have created my custom indexes :
Then I have created a patch config file for the corresponding index definitions.
On a page I use a ...
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Sitecore Azure index is not getting created [duplicate]
We are using sitecore 8.2 update 4 and Azure search service for indexing.
We have a custom index and when we rebuild this index, we notice that the items are getting processed and then we get a ...
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Where to check the index that is configured from SXA Search API?
When I request the url https://mydomain/sxa/search/results?q=test, below is the response
{"TotalTime":259,"CountTime":211,"QueryTime":38,"Signature":null,"Index":"sitecore_sxa_web_index","Count":0,"...
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Do we need to trigger SXA indexes after cloning a new site?
This is the first time working on SXA Search. We have an SXA site with search in working condition. We cloned a new site from the existing one and using master database for now but the search page is ...
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Set up field copy rules
I need to add custom field to Azure search schema and set up copy field rules to get the values of some other fields and set them as the values of this custom field. I can do it in Solr with Schema ...
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Sitecore Azure indexing logs in CD server when Indexing is triggered from CM server
We are using Sitecore 8.2 update 3 on Azure Iaas. When we trigger Indexing from Control Panel(obviously from CM server), we see the indexing jobs in the logs of CD server.
Does this mean that the ...
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How is the name of the primary index name stored when using SwitchOnRebuild in Azure Search?
We are using Azure Search for a custom index and I have SwitchOnRebuild enabled in my config patch.
<!-- USE SWITCHONREBUILD
Determines if Azure Search provider uses SwitchOnRebuild() ...
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SXA 1.8 Sitecore 9.1 Azure Search field limit reached on default install [duplicate]
In an Azure PaaS XP Single installation of Sitecore 9.1 using Azure Search, I have installed SXA 1.8. This has pushed the Sitecore Master index field count to just over the 1000 field limit in Azure ...
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My index on Content Delivery does not match with CM and is not updating anymore on Azure PAAS - Sitecore 9.0.2
We noticed that our CD environment gave different results from the index compared to the CM environment. We did some more checks and found that the index on CD was also not updating anymore. It did ...
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Auto index rebuild not happening in CD server (Sitecore 9.0 and Azure PaaS)
We have CM and CD servers in Azure PaaS, and Azure search service for indexing the items. After publishing the items from CM to CD auto index rebuild not happening.
Content Management index file ...
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SXA scope not working with one specific field in PAAS
I have a SXA search scope which is working, but as soon as I try to extend it with our "Company" field, it fails to find any results. Company is a multilist field.
Our steps:
Create a search scope ...
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ContentSearch Where vs Filter
When using the ContentSearch API what is the difference in using Where vs Filter and can this have any influence on the results?
From the Sitecore documentation :
Filtering is similar to using ...
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Product ID or name is not searchable
I am working on Sitecore commerce 9 update-1.
Many customizations are already done till now.
For searching I'm using the default Search component.
Issue :-
Product is not searchable by Product ID/...
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Custom Azure Search Index returns '&search=This_Is_Equal_ConstNode_Return_Nothing' for searches
I have setup an custom Azure Search index in Sitecore 8.2 u7 and was getting no results returned even though I have data in it (I can see the data in the Azure console). Looking in the Sitecore Search ...
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Disable multi-lingual search in Azure Search [duplicate]
What's the best/easiest way to disable multi-lingual search in Azure, so only English content is indexed? I have language fallback turned on, but turning that off wouldn't disable multi-lingual. I ...
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Azure Search 1000 field limit issue
I noticed in 9.0.2 and 9.1 there's a new ExcludeFields.config file for the Azure indexes to help keep things below Azure's 1000-field limitation. However, this apparently isn't enough, as we're ...
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Index the content for some of the languages - Sitecore Azure index
I am using Sitecore 9 Update 1 with Sitecore Azure search. We have many different language content in the site. I want to index the content which are belongs to 2 languages. Is there any change to be ...
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Search not working for spaces, exclamation mark, slashes
When I search for a sentence like adoption of an animal, I don't get any results.
Looking at the generated query, I have
&search=content_1:(/.\*adoption of an animal.\*/)&queryType=full&...
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Fetching the data from Sitecore Azure having multiple indexes
We are using Sitecore Commerce 9.0.1 update 1. We are creating multiple indexes to avoid Azure field limit ( 1000).My question is , how the Azure search to get the results from multiple indexes?
We ...
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Could SocketException be caused by CloudSearchRetryPolicy?
I'm investigating an issue where we are seeing SocketExceptions and socket handle leaks. Using Sitecore 8.2 rev 107614, in Azure using Azure Search as the search provider.
Drilling down to one of the ...
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Data template not found for item in web database
Found the below error in log while indexing sitecore azure indexes.Once we get this error indexing gets stuck and there will be multiple errors in log and none of the items get indexed.
ERROR Data ...
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Azure Search doesn't work with query more than five letters
I've implemented simple search by query in my sitecore application. Locally it works perfectly with solr, but when solution is deployed to an Azure environment that is using Azure Search it doesn't ...
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How to force Sitecore to use &$filter not &search in Azure Content Search Provider
A query built using the Sitecore Azure Content Search Provider doesn't produce the query that I was expecting. The result is that far too many results are returned. The purpose of the code is to find ...
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Index queries not working with DateTime and ID on SXA and PAAS
I had some custom code performing queries on a Sitecore index that worked perfectly on my local environment with Solr. But when deploying the code to Azure PAAS with Azure search they don't work.
The ...
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How do you check if your configuration for Azure Search is working on Sitecore 8.2.7?
According to this official guide "Configure Azure Search"(https://doc.sitecore.net/sitecore_experience_platform/82/setting_up_and_maintaining/search_and_indexing/configure_azure_search#...
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Content Search and Azure how to move items to the bottom of search results with boosting
Similar to my earlier question, I need a way to move certain items to the end of my search results, without using ordering.
I have a checkbox field (currently indexed as a string, containing "1" or "...
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Content Search and Azure how to apply negative boost based on a checkbox value
I want to apply negative boosting to items, based on the value of an indexed checkbox field in order to move those items to the bottom of the search results. I am applying (positive) boosting to other ...
