Questions tagged [content-search]
Questions about searching (querying) Sitecore projects with the ContentSearch API. Use the Lucene or Solr (or Coveo) tags if the question is specific for any of those technologies.
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Items with fallback language missing in Content Search index
On our Sitecore 8.1 Update-2 site we have configured two languages:
English
German (which should fallback to English)
So we have configured language fallback and it works as it should. We have also ...
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What is the difference between an index and a search index
What is the difference between a regular index (e.g. sitecore_master_index) and a "search index"?
Why do I see certain indexes under the Indexing Manager in Control Panel, yet different ones under ...
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Sitecore index update jobs getting stuck
I'm having trouble configuring a Sitecore 7.2 production environment and noticed some weird things on the CM environment..
After a few updates to the sitecore_master_index the jobs to update the ...
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What class indexes the _content index field
Until I answered a question wrong yesterday, I didn't know that the field _content in the index had the content of all indexable fields in Sitecore. You would have thought that would be the first ...
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Do we have predictive search capability within Sitecore?
I'm looking for predictive search for content page in Sitecore.
Something similar, what google search provide. Do we have anything like this?
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Incorrect dynamic field type for Droptree
Background: Sitecore 9, Solr 6.6.1
I have got a strange issue with incorrect resolution of field type by SOLR during item indexing.
I read the following article about resolution a field names:
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One index with multiple start locations
I have a custom SOLR index that I need to start from a few location, as to not include items I don't need. I thought the xml below was the proper location node for the index config, but it only crawls ...
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How does Sitecore decide the Index to use with GetIndex
A new index was added to a Sitecore instance I am working on. This ended up causing a different module in the implementation to have a problem. The part having an issue uses Sitecore.ContentSearch....
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Multiple partial word search not working
I have implemented a global search on our website which gets the data result from _content field in solr indexes.
Single word search works perfectly fine but I am currently facing an issue if I have ...
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Indexing PDF content with Solr error
I've been trying to get Solr configured right with Sitecore, but the one bit that's still causing background errors is indexing PDF content. I've been searching about and I'm not finding a clear-cut ...
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Gracefully handle Solr search connectivity issues
We had an issue recently where the Solr search servers went down and it took the site down too.
Is there a way to handle this gracefully and keep the site up but just return an error message when the ...
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Is there a way to define index per site in SXA
There is a lot of reasons why I would like to have a separate index per site (or even per language). Some of them are:
separation of data
keeping the index small which increase performance
not ...
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Filter number of fields returned from SOLR
We have a query that is running against our SOLR. The query is returning extremely slowly due to the number of fields and the amount of data in those fields. When the query runs, its adding the fl=* ...
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Display Facets With 0 Values
I'm working on a Lucene-based search page on Sitecore 8.1. I'd like to be able to display all facets and all facet values, even when there are 0 aggregate results for it.
Currently, what I get back ...
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Sitecore Full Content Search
We are using SOLR 5.4 and Sitecore 8.2 and we have implemented Full Content Search using _Content field which is displaying search result in Company Pages and various datasources linked to these ...
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“Index sitecore_marketingdefinitions_master was not found” exception in Sitecore 9
Sometimes when we change config file or deploy new code, we see this exception on first load of page:
Server Error in '/' Application.
Index sitecore_marketingdefinitions_master was not found
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How does Sitecore update the Link Database?
I installed the Sitecore URL Rewrite Module for a client. The module worked properly in non-production environments. However, it did not work on production CD servers. The module uses the links ...
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In the “Select Media” dialog, where are the search facets defined at in Sitecore?
This is for Sitecore 8.1 Update 3.
In the Select Media dialog that pops up on certain media fields (for example, clicking Browse on an image field), I want to know where the search facets are ...
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Crawling external data in Coveo
I have a DAM system that houses thousands of PDFs, and I am using Coveo for my site search. I want to allow these PDFs to be searchable from my site- how can I get them into an index?
The only ...
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Error opening new searcher. exceeded limit of maxWarmingSearchers=2
I am relatively new to SOLR. We are using SOLR 6.1.0.1 with Sitecore 8.1 Update 3. There are roughly 50K items (content and files) being indexed. We are being plagued by poor throughput (through ...
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How do I add a new search filter to use with my Item Buckets?
I want to add a search filter which can be used for building search queries in Sitecore as per described in the documentation. The search filter should filter by inherited templates.
I have followed ...
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Sitecore SXA Search Result Sorting by date
How to sort/filter search result in Sitecore SXA by __created date or __updated date to retrieve recent search items
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How to properly search Solr for any match on one stringCollection field and no matches on a second stringCollection field?
I have a Sitecore v8.1 site using Solr 4.10. Here is my index setup. First I have two custom fields defined in my index defined as follows:
<field fieldName="read_roles" returnType="...
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Virtual field not working with Azure
Currently I'm using facet to filter the search result. The result works perfectly with SOLR but when I switch to Azure it doesn't work anymore. The result shows all although I added filter criteria. ...
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Unable to connect to [http://localhost:8983/solr], Core: [mycore]
I am creating Solr Sitecore search index. After index was added to Solr and Sitecore configuration was updated to connect to it, I suddenly got yellow screen of death:
Connection error to search ...
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Patching to remove index update strategies
While configuring cd instance on SOLR one has to remove index update strategies and set to manual from index definitions on cd server.
Can we do that using sitecore patching?
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How can I customize Search Result in SXA?
Out of the box SXA Search Results component shows only page Title.
How can I customize that component to show page Image and Description?
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Experience Profile search - System.ArgumentOutOfRangeException errir
In Sitecore 8.1-3 when we go to Experience Profile and do a simple search sometimes (not all the time) we get zero results when we know that there are entries in the index and we see a message that ...
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In the ContentSearch Linq API what is the difference between the different string matching methods?
The Sitecore ContentSearch Linq API provides several methods that can be used to search against string fields in different ways:
Like
Matches
MatchWildcard
Contains
StartsWith/EndsWith
From the doc ...
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How do you boost fields such as Title or Navigation individually in SXA when using SOLR?
In our example, we have a Careers search feature in which we only want to match on title, job id, or a meta field such as description.
One wonderful feature about SXA is that you have an easy-to-use ...
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How can I search for date field values on the Content Editor?
I have a website with Sitecore.NET 7.2 (rev. 160123). Using facets I see I can search for different things, and I have a few filters. However, I didn't manage to be able to filter for a date field on ...
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Is there a way to modify the Solr query that gets generated by the Sitecore Content Search API before it gets sent to the search server?
I'm looking to add some parameters to my Solr query that's not currently supported by the Search API (hit highlighting to be specific). Is there a way (like a pipeline processor or something) to ...
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Azure Search and Date field filtering
I'm using 8.2 Update-3 and have deployed it to Azure with Sitecore's ARM template.
I have indexed a page called Event Page. The Event Page has a DateTime field called Start Date on it. It is indexed ...
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Azure Search indexes are not created
We are seeing a lot of Depenendy Failures in Application Insights because some non exisiting Azure Search indexes are queried.
The following indexes on Azure search return a 404:
sitecore-marketing-...
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How to implement 'Did you mean?' - spell checker functionality like google in Sitecore using Lucene/Solr?
I have a requirement to implement google-like 'Did you mean?' functionalities. If user make a mistake in typing then I've to show 'Did you mean [correct search term]'.
What is the best way in ...
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Solr Search Model doesn't work without the dynamic field suffix
I have ContentSearch code that works and runs fine using Lucene. When I switch the configs over to Solr, the query fails, and the logs state that the field I'm using in the query doesn't exist.
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Is there a “weighting” involved with Sitecore.ContentSearch.SearchTypes.SearchResultItem?
I have the following code to return a List of Items in a Lucene index:
public List<Item> GetSearchResults(ISearchIndex index, string searchTerm = "")
{
var results = new List<Item>();
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How to disable xDB related search indexes, when using CMS-only mode?
After disabling Sitecore xDB using the following two settings in the \App_Config\Include\Sitecore.Xdb.config file.
<setting name="Xdb.Enabled" value="false" />
<setting name="Xdb.Tracking....
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Solr search with stemming
We are running Sitecore 8.0 and Solr 4.10.3. I'm trying to get text search working where if I search for play, player and plays are also returned in the search results.
I can't find reference on how ...
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Unable to serialize the session state. Sitecore.ContentSearch.SearchTypes.SearchResultItem
Introduction
After implementing private and shared outProc sessions states, I'm receiving the following error. This is a Sitecore 8.1 Update 3 environment. We are using SOLR as our indexer. We are ...
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How to specify Solr core in search code for Sitecore 8.1
I recently upgraded from Sitecore v7.5 to v8.1. In addition my Solr configuration changed a little. On v7.5 I only had a single core. On v8.1 I now have many cores. After upgrading my search code ...
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There is no method 'GetResults' on type 'Sitecore.ContentSearch.Linq.QueryableExtensions' that matches the specified arguments
We are using Solr for indexing. We recently upgraded from Sitecore version 8.1 update 2 to 8.2 update 5. After upgrading when a search is performed we get the following error:
There is no method '...
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How to configure the search Results Count component in SXA?
I've added a Results Count component to my search results page.
Searching, autocompletion, page selector etc all works perfectly, but I cannot get the Results Count to show a number of found results; ...
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SOLR search not returning results [closed]
I am new to SOLR search.
I have created all cores and index and SOLR UI is showing that documens have been indexed. I have copied the working core folder and renamed it and also updated in ...
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What is the best way to store a single Sitecore field into two Solr index fields with different types?
I have a Category field in sitecore and it is currently stored as a text_general in Solr. It has this type because I need it to be tokenized and lowercase for searching.
On the other hand I need to ...
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Using custom classes in LinqScratchPad.aspx
The problem
The default/sample code in the LinqScratchPad.aspx shows a TryYourOwnClass class. Sadly, this class is not used in any way in the sample.
The sample code looks like this:
namespace Test ...
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Master index updated even though manual strategy is set
I have changed update strategy for Master database to be "manual" rather than "sync", which to my understanding should not update "master" when data changes in master database. I can see in crawling ...
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Singleton search context for search api
Typical usage of search api uses a using statement to dispose of the search context.
using (var context = ContentSearchManager.GetIndex(_indexName).CreateSearchContext())
{
var hits = context....
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How to query for regEx matches in any value in a stringCollection field?
I have a computed field with returnType="stringCollection", which I am using via a search result model that looks something like this:
public class MySearchResultItem : SearchResultItem
{
// ......
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“Multilist with Search” Field Does Not Return Search Results With Two Or More Items Selected
This is for Sitecore 8.1 Update 3, using Solr 5.5.
It appears that in a Multilist with Search Field, if the field has two or more items currently selected (it does not matter whether the item has ...
