We recently came across a requirement in a project, where the site node had multiple microsites within itself, BUT the client wanted the search feature of the main site to only include pages from the main site, and not from any of the micro sites. Sitecore search index configuration easily allows us to include / exclude templates &… Read More Excluding configured paths from Sitecore Index
In this article we will go over the basics of Search engines and Indexes followed by a quick guide to using Azure search with your Sitecore solution, how to set it up and things to consider if you are switching an existing solution from a different search engine to Azure Search. Search Engines with Sitecore… Read More A walkthrough of Azure Search features & setup with Sitecore
Spatial search was introduced as a built in feature in SOLR with Sitecore from Sitecore 9. This made it extremely easy to implement geo spatial searches based on global coordinates. We had to achieve a couple of targets in our project, which we easily achieved using Sitecore’s new simple integrated functionality Get a list of… Read More Spatial search with SOLR now ridiculously simple in Sitecore 9
In one of our projects, we had the need to create a separate index only for items of a certain set of templates – and the content admin needed to have the flexibility to edit this list of templates. If this was only a question of including / excluding templates in the search, it would… Read More Include templates dynamically based on Sitecore field values in your SOLR index
Sitecore’s query builder can be a very versatile tool for content authors if setup right. It can give the content authors the option to virtually select any set of items to display on a given module. This, paired with the right set of custom facet definitions, can work wonders to optimize the content author experience.… Read More Working with the Sitecore Query Builder field using SOLR
Adding facets to help content authors in searching content is always a great idea, especially when you have rather large buckets with loads of items. One thing I noticed while trying to set this up, was that I needed untokenized fields in the index to make this work as expected, while text fields by default… Read More Adding search facets on computed fields in Sitecore 9 with SOLR
When developing search implementation for a Sitecore site, we usually do an index search on the internal _content field which is an accumulation of all the string fields on the current item. Often the pages have a lot of important data on module datasources as opposed to be on the context item itself. We also… Read More Searching on module content on pages in Sitecore
In most product repositories, we come across product specification sets for each product, which usually comprise of a key value pair. We had one such scenario in our project, and we came across the requirement to facet on various specification keys. We have currently added a list of comma separated (key, value) pairs in the… Read More Faceting on product specifications with SOLR computed fields in Sitecore
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