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Is it possible to get Azure Search to support EDM.GeographyPoint?

With regard to spatial searching capabilities of Azure Search in Sitecore. How do you go about customising your index configuration so that you can perform spatial searching using the OData geospatial ...
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How to correctly process index dependencies for correct language?

I am updating index dependencies as mentioned in Sitecore Full Content Search where we are using GetDatasourceDependencies. Now, the issue is that this works fine for the English language, but, ...
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Sitecore HTML Indexing

We have custom indexer which indexes all the RTF Data in present in content tree and this indexed RTF Data can have Div's ,breaker Tags and anchor tags. When we get search result out from Solr we ...
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Sitecore Azure Search - There is no appropriate index for /sitecore - {11111111-1111-1111-1111-111111111111}

I have a Sitecore 9.0.1 instance running in Azure and uses Azure Search. My search index is working as far as I know and can be rebuilt. Earlier this week, I hit the problem with Sitecore Azure ...
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Search results error on single server setup

We have a client site that is spread across 2 cd's and 1 cm which we have migrated to a single server instance for QA purposes. The production site has a public address for the cd's and a private ...
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Error with indexWorker process in Sitecore 9 xConnect with Solr 6.6.2

I am running Sitecore 9 with Solr 6.6.2 and I am seeing lot of error in the IndexWorker logs in Sitecore xConnect as below: 018-02-21 16:16:13.686 +10:00 [Error] An error occured. System.Net.Http....
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Lucene Search Indexing Issue

In a project, I have used Lucene Search. Earlier everything was working fine. But from last few days I am facing issue in getting items through search on production server. I performed Index ...
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How do you programmatically exclude an item from being indexed?

We would like to exclude items from being indexed. Ideally, we want this control to be within Sitecore so that as new pages get created, content authors can determine whether to index them as they ...
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SItecore 8.2.6 - IndexField attribute is not recognized in code

IndexField attribute is not recognized although Sitecore.ContentSearch.dll reference is added and namespace is included.
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Custom index field returning "Server Error in '/' Application. Could not find add method: AddComputedIndexField"

I am trying to create a commuted index field in sitecore 9 but can't get the configuration to work. I have a local environment which is running Solr and also environment is Azure. I have added the ...
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Counting how many times a page has been visited

I have created a local instance of the Sitecore on my machine.I need to track the count of visitors accessing my site. Since this is a local site, I will be opening in a different session from the ...
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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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Custom index configuration cannot work for Sitecore 9.0.1 in Azure

I got a trouble about custom index with Sitecore 9.0.1 in Azure. My custom index configuration can rebuild successfully and this index can create in Azure search with Sitecore 9.0. After I changed to ...
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Sitecore 8.2 integrated search function with Salesforce

This is my first question for SE...and forgive my lack of technical expertise in this area. We're building a our new website on Sitecore which has to be integrated with Salesforce. In Saleforce, we ...
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Sitecore.Social: Social messages index could not be determined for master database

We are on Sitecore 8.1 rev. 160519 (Update-3) and using SOLR 6.2.1 Logs on one of our CM server is suddenly overflowing with the following error message: Sitecore.Social: Social messages index ...
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Web indexes not updated upon publish

I am hoping to understand the cause of this and hopefully find a solution - I have looked at every possible solution, but haven't been able to fix it. Sitecore v8.2 update 3 using SOLR. In my ...
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Custom content search (crawler) sent old indexed ids

I have a completely custom search crawler that pushes data to Algolia. If I run the full reindex it works great. When trying to use a onPublishEndAsync strategy I see the first item come in I publish ...
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SOLR on load balance

I have 2 CD instances. When I enable both the instances I get below error on website Index proj_web_index was not found. Although it works fine when only one instance is enabled. Indexes are on ...
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Adding custom contact facet to Sitecore Analytics index

Sitecore 8.2 Update 4 with Lucene search on a local single instance Sitecore site: I have created a Custom Contact facet and I can see it is being saved to MongoDB. I want to add it to the Analytics ...
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Restricting some item from being indexed

We are using search index in our website and we want to restrict some items based on conditions. Any suggestions will help us.
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Solr query on read/deny roles

We have a custom Solr index which includes read and deny roles. Both are added as predicates using the following code: protected virtual IQueryable<TIndexable> ApplyDenyUserRules<TIndexable&...
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Is there any way to delay publishing and indexing when updating or creating items with the ItemService?

I am syncing a significant amount of data into Sitecore from external systems on a fairly regular basis. To do this, I am utilizing the Sitecore ItemService. The problem I'm currently facing is that ...
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When and why to create a custom index

In my experience, the default sitecore_master_index and sitecore_web_index work pretty fast with Solr. We have around 1 million documents in the index and it returns a result in between 0 to 10ms. I ...
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Lucene fails to start up properly on CD Server

We have a CM/CD setup where the CM works as intended, but the CD does not. The problem is that after following Sitecores guides on how to configure a CD server, lucene indexing seems to be ...
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An error occurred while rebuilding the search index

I am unable to build the Coveo for Sitecore master index. While the rebuild is supposedly happening, the number of items processed is always 0. In the Sources of the cloud panel, the index doesn't ...
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SOLR Custom Index Causing Error

I am converting a Lucene custom index to a SOLR custom index. I got the Cores working for the default indexes, but having trouble converting my custom indexes. I got through some of the issues, but ...
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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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"org.apache.solr.common.SolrException: undefined field 0001-01-01T00" when rebuilding index

When I rebuild one of my indexes in Sitecore, I get the following error in the Solr log: org.apache.solr.common.SolrException: undefined field 0001-01-01T00 I don't have a field called 0001-01-...
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Sitecore PDF Document Content Indexing with Lucene [duplicate]

I assume with the latest releases of Sitecore (8.2), PDF and other document indexing comes by default. Can someone please point me to a document related to any setting, to enable these media document ...
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Sitecore Solr index FieldNameTranslator is null

I am currently playing around with Sitecore indexes - both Solr and Lucene. I have made my own custom index and it works fine for Lucene, but I cannot get it to work with Solr. My problem is that ...
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Rebuilding custom Index on Sitecore Azure WebApp doesn't work

I'm new to Azure deployments. We have installed Sitecore 8.2 webapp and deployed and everything works fine except that our custom indices have not been created. Pages that use indices crash. ...
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How does one verify that an item is properly indexed in Sitecore?

How do I figure out whether or not an item is indexed properly? Indexing depends on which tables in the Sitecore DBs? When I search for an item in the search field, I am not able to fetch the item. ...
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502 Bad Gateway error when reindexing with Solr to localhost address

I'm using the Bitnami Solr 6.5.1 installer, and I've used it successfully on other servers. On our QA server, which is sharing CM/CD in one site and has Solr installed locally, I'm getting the ...
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How do you stop optimizing sitecore_analytics_index

We have our analytics_index over 150 million documents now (with Solr on a standalone windows server). How can we stop Sitecore from optimizing the index? Solr says optimizing should only be done on ...
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Solr multivalued fields

We are currently working on migrating from Lucene to Solr and we're having a couple of issues with our index data. There hasn't been any code changes so we're assuming it is stemming from the indexed ...
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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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Do I really need MediaItemContentExtractor if I'm not indexing media?

I have a site that allows visitors to upload a PDF via a WFFM form. However, each time a visitor does so, the logs fill up with the following errors: ManagedPoolThread #2 17:14:20 WARN Could not ...
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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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SolrNet.Exceptions.SolrConnectionException: The operation has timed out

After sitecore upgrade from 7.2 to 8.2u3 and solr from 5.4.1 to v6.1, below solr timeout starts to happen in one server, works fine in local machine setup. We have increased from 125500 (on local ...
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Why does Rebuilding a Search Index peg my CPU at 100%?

If I rebuild any search index, whether through Indexing Manager, or programatically, the CPU pegs at 100% until the rebuilding operation completes. This happens on development machines and production ...
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Indexing options are not showing up in sitecore control panel (v8.2 update 3) and developer tab is not visible

We are in the process of upgrading sitecore website from v7.2 to v8.2 and are not seeing the indexing manager links in sitecore control panel and Developer tab is also not showing up within content ...
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Index has not been initialized on content delivery server

I'm using Sitecore on Azure, and I followed the wizard to create a project with a CD and a CM. I have a custom index SinglePageUrl on both of them with a web and a master version to Rewrite some ...
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Reference field computed index field in multiple language

My sitecore item contains dropdown for City, state, category etc. It's all in multiple languages but on sitecore item dropdown, it's appearing in english only. I've created computed index field for ...
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Combining multiple Items into one Document

Sitecore indexing works great for simple indexing scenario's, as the main working entity is a sitecore item. With computed fields you can add custom logic and fields for a record. But I have 2 more ...
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Sitecore Lucene indexing two versions of the same keyword

Here is the situation: I have three items - Categories - Corporate, Financial and Product which I am using to categorize other items. They can be selected from a Droplink field (so Sitecore holds ID ...
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Duplicate Item in Lucene Index [duplicate]

I have a Lucene index for the Master db. It seems like every save creates a new entry in the Lucene index. At first I thought it was versioning but as you can see in the screen shot, it's the same ...
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Rebuild reporting database. Exception Message: String or binary data would be truncated

Sitecore 8.0 update 5 I've set up clean sitecore.analytics and sitecore.analytics_secondary databases. Also I've deployed the Marketing Definitions and ran necessary SQL script to copy data from old ...
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Recursive read lock acquisitions not allowed in this mode

Im using Sitecore 7.2 on a split CM/CD environment. When I publish an item on the CM I get: ManagedPoolThread #73 10:01:10 ERROR Could not update index entry. Action: 'Saved', Item: '{8EDE5C9E-265D-...
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Value cannot be null. Parameter name: fieldNameTranslator - Opening Content Editor [closed]

I was trying to setup the Sitecore with Solr. I created the Default Instance and added Solr. I use Castle Windsor as IOC, updated the Global.asax. Since I was not able to download the Solr Support ...
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Sitecore 7.2 Not rebuilding Lucene Index

We're using Sitecore 7.2 Update 4, and have 6 Lucene indexes across our sites in a single Sitecore instance. In the production environment, but not locally or on staging, the web index is not rebuilt ...
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