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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Create custom facet for Sitecore SXA search filter
I have to apply the SXA search Checklist filter component on a search result by the product type (which is a single line text field).
Can anyone please provide any information or useful links on how ...
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SXA Search api doesn't work with Arabic facet value
I'm using Sitecore 9.3 and SXA 9.3, I use SXA OOB Search results components, when filtering with Arabic keyword in the facets, it doesn't bring data, although I checked the generated SOLR query, it ...
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Filter search based on the page field of date type
In SXA Sitecore 93 I have a requirement to show items in search result, where date field on page is only greater than current date.
I am trying to create a custom sxa token just like we have: ...
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Results are not coming in the order using sortorder from lucene index
I have some items present in an item folder and want them to retrieve from Lucence index. There is a requirement that we have to order items in the Sitecore based on the order set on the Sitecore CMS, ...
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GroupBy clause for both search providers (Solr, Azure)
Would like to use groupby clause in Sitecore 9.1.1 for both search provide (Azure, Solr) in content search API. However, Sitecore does not support this clause. Kindly let us know how we can group ...
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Cannot search sxatags to find related items - 'undefined field sxatags'
Sitecore 9.3 with SXA. I'm trying to utilise sxa tags from the inherited _Taggable template to programmatically find related items with similar tags to the context item.
That SXA template is /sitecore/...
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Content search predicate with multiple conditions
Sitecore 9.3
I am trying to use 'predicates' to get a subset of data.
When I have the code snippet as:
using (var contextA = selectedIndex.CreateSearchContext())
{
var predicate = PredicateBuilder....
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Search API with multiple conditions
Sitecore 9.3
What I have till now:
I am able to filter items based on a template using the search context.
var unversionedImageTemplateId = ID.Parse(Constants.UnversionedImageTemplateId);
var ...
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Invalid Method Call Argument in Content Search
Sitecore version: 9.3
I am trying to fetch the media components with specific template and having a particular check-box selected using Sitecore query in my code.
I tried the following code snippet:
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How do I resolve the objectToSwitchTo error in Sitecore 9.3 with SXA on the ContentDelivery server?
I'm currently experiencing an issue in SXA where the log reports an error and no search results are returned.
3764 08:00:38 WARN Results endpoint exception
Exception: System.ArgumentNullException
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Handling special characters in SOLR search for sitecore 9.1
For a Dutch company, we implemented Sitecore SOLR search (Sitecore 9.1 and SOLR 7.2.1 ) with a requirement for the user to be able to search words with special Dutch characters for example if the user ...
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Solr computed index field of type stringCollection not stored as expected
I've made a computed index field in my solution. The class returns List<string> from the ComputeFieldValue method and the config patch includes the field within the fieldMap and documentOptions ...
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Re-use computed index field for multiple template fields
Is there a way to re-use the code for a computed index field without just making derived classes? I would like to have an additional property in the config which tells the ComputeFieldValue method ...
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SXA JSON Results don't read from custom index
I'm using Sitecore 9.1 and SXA 1.8, I've created custom index instead of "sitecore_sxa_web_index", the Search Results component fetch data from the custom index and works fine, but the JSON ...
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Invalid cast from 'System.String' to 'Sitecore.ContentSearch.IFieldMap' [closed]
Sitecore version: 9.3
In my SOLR, the name of my master core is M7_master_index.
I am trying to get some result from Sitecore using search. So I am creating the SearchContext in the following ways:
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Solr tokenization to split on semicolon character
How do I go about configuring fields within a Solr index to be tokenized based on a semicolon ";" delimiter?
Initially, I had fields configured as such:
<field
fieldName="example&...
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One or several tag repositories for my site?
I have a Sitecore 9.0.2 site that contains a list of shops that are currently only searchable by shop name. We wish to improve the search feature by tagging up shops with:
Product categories (e.g. ...
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SXA Boosting by multiple query
I'm using Sitecore 9.1 and SXA 1.8, I'm using SXA boosting rule of where the field contains Search Box query, this rule doesn't work when the Search Box query is multiple words that are not in order.
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Exact search in Azure search in Sitecore SXA
Using azure search in Sitecore SXA 1.7 and it is not fetching exact result likewise if we are using "Test data" in search box then it is showing result based which match "Test data ...
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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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SOLR Spell checker not working well with multiple words
I'm using Solr 7.2.1, I'm trying to implement the 'Did you mean' feature, I've configured the spell check handler and it's working well, the issue is when trying with multiple words, if only one word ...
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Search checklist field data in the Content search API in Sitecore SXA
I would like to search checklist data through the Content search API in the Sitecore SXA. However, it is not searching any data based on checked value in checklist field.
Sharing code :
Template:
Name ...
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Not able to fetch search result in Content search API with Solr and Azure
I am using content search API in Sitecore 9.1.1. However, it is not fetching result if i am using search with any of the template field. The below code fetching result based on template id but when we ...
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Facet query returning 100 items max
Using Sitecore 9.2 with Solr on SearchStax. We have the Query.MaxItems value patched to 0, so finding a limit returned of 100 items is unexpected. We're setting up a number of dropdowns, using this ...
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IndexingStateSwitcher Job Never Ends
We are suddenly experiencing a problem with Sitecore never starting up. It looks like the last meaningful line in the log is that the IndexingStateSwitcher job starts, however, it never ends. In our ...
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"Lock held by this virtual machine" exception with Solr 6.6.1
For a customer i created a solution based on CMS Sitecore 8.2.7.
The architecture is hosted on MS Azure infrastructure and basically consists of a Content Management VM (Windows Server 2016), two ...
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SXA Filter API ignore the custom index
I'm using Sitecore 9.1 and SXA 1.8, I've created custom index for my site and it's working fine, the SXA OOB Search results API is using the custom index which is right
But the SXA OOB Search filters ...
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Use site specific search indexes configured on SXA site item in Content Search API
When making Content Search API calls, Sitecore resolves the index based on certain logic which is very well explained here.
In SXA, we do have an option to configure the indexes on the site item, ...
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Does Sitecore Content Search support group by clause?
Does Sitecore Content Search support group by clause?
If yes then what are the namespace / references are needed?
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Search the content of a PDF file uploaded in media library
I'm using sitecore 9.3.
I have a case where i have some content files (ex: PDF files) uploaded to sitecore media library and I have a search box component.
I need to configure my search box scope to ...
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Custom index was not found error in in Azure Paas Content Delivery
My custom index "custom_index" was not found error is coming in Sitecore 8.2 on the Azure Paas CD environment.
But the same custom_index is accessible in the CM environment.
I'm using the Azure ...
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Coveo Index Item Url Issue Using Sitecore 8.2 and Coveo 5.0
I am facing an issue with the Coveo index Item URL. After Coveo indexed on dev environment, item URL formation is in a right format like /en/za/news/news1 while on uat environment after Coveo indexed ...
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Need to get the Search response time
I need to get the time taken for each response time for each search that we are making from the Sitecore. I've tried changing the log configuration of Search Log to Debug mode but the log doesn't have ...
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SXA JSON results count is not in the response
I'm using Sitecore 9.1 and SXA 1.8, I created a JSON result and configured it as below:
The JSON result response doesn't contain the results count, as in SXA search result component request-response, ...
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Sitecore Spell checker neglect search scope
I'm using Sitecore 9.1 and SXA 1.8, I'm using Solr spell checker feature to fetch suggestions for a SXA search box that I use, the source of the suggestions is the field you specify in the ...
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Embed query text in no results view text and result count text for SXA Search results component
Using Sitecore and SXA 9.3
For search, we need to include the query text in the result count message as well as the no results message. For example; for a search of 'bananas' it should say "5 results ...
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Can I add a custom rendering for the out of the box search box and dropdown filter?
I want to create my own render variant for the search box and dropdown filters. I wantt to keep the functionality, but I want to change some of the markup and css classes. Is this possible, and how? I ...
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Issue in SXA search scope: no results due to searchable_b:(True)
I am using SXA in Sitecore 9, I have created simple search scope with below query:
template:{cbb0f1aa-1a19-4c0a-a897-49af144cb801};+location:{3F38A230-25BB-4DBA-B9D3-2CE94F842072}
From UI there are ...
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What is the functionality behind in Query and ContextFilterQuery in SuggestParameters class?
I'm working on the solr suggest module and I want to know about the Query and ContextFilterQuery in SuggestParameters class.
Can anyone explain it?
public class SuggestParameters
{
public ...
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Search results signature is set to null in arabic language
I'm using sitecore 9.1.1 and SXA 1.8.1.
My site have two languages: english and arabic.
I've recently run into a problem which is the following:
All the search results components stopped returning ...
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How to exclude the results based on some templates in Solr/Suggest search?
I have a scenario that, I want to exclude some templates(Items that are based on these templates are need to be excluded) from solr Suggestion/autocomplete results.
I did set a context field as ...
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SXA search filters don't intersect itself
I'm using Sitecore 9.1 and SXA 1.8, I have checklist filter with data as seen:
Individual has items : News3, News4, News7
Vacation has items : News3, News5, News6
When I choose these two options, ...
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ContextFilterQuery is not working Solr suggest [duplicate]
I recently tried Solr autosuggest search in my local,
Steps I followed :
Added configuration in master in sensoft_master_index\conf\solrconfig.xml
<requestHandler name="/suggest" class="solr....
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Solr Suggestor is not working for sitecore master index
I recently tried solr autosuggest search in my local,
Steps I followed :
Added configuration in master in sensoft_master_index\conf\solrconfig.xml
Restarted solr8.1 service in services
in C# code,
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Solr field level search
I'm working on the site search module where the user searches for a particular item.
Currently, the site searches and matches only the item name.
But I'm trying for searching the keyword in item ...
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Could not create instance of type: Sitecore.ContentSearch.SolrProvider.SolrSearchIndex. No matching constructor was found
I'm trying to set up a local instance of an existing Sitecore 9.2 site. It's using Solr 7.5.0, and I set it up through SIA. When I try to load my site I get the following error:
Could not create ...
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How to get the __content index field value in solr search
I just created the site search module where I need to get all the pages that the user is looking for.
I'm able to get the item name when content matches the search term, But also I need the content ...
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Return Partial view inside search results rendering variant
I'm using Sitecore 9.1.1 with SXA 1.8.1.
I have a search results component, I need to render a partial view inside a section in its rendering variant.
I tried to add a Variant component for a custom ...
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Sitecore SXA Search Multiple Dropdown List
Im new in Sitecore, long story short. I wanted to know how to create a multiple dropdown search(filter) in Sitecore SXA (not coding part). Sorry my English is not good hopefully you guys understand ...
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ContentSearch predicates for filtering on a multilist field
I'm trying to figure out why certain code is needed in order for a content search query to work with Azure search. I have a multilist field which is indexed by the default indexer in Sitecore, meaning ...
