Start Page not set in CatalogIndexer

Jaldip Patel

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I am trying to integrate a custom elastic search implementation.

In order to index products, I created a class inherited from CatalogIndexBuilder so when the indexing job is run, I can call my elastic search client to index the catalog items.

I need the start page of the site and for some reason, ContentReference.StartPage is not set. When I run the site normally, the start page is set correctly but not when the scheduled job is run.

Any ideas?

#140274

Oct 14, 2015 17:15

Per Magne Skuseth

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Hi,

check out thie blog post: https://blog.mathiaskunto.com/2014/05/30/episervers-contentreference-startpage-is-an-empty-reference-when-lacking-binding/#li-comment-26488

See Ted's comment:

You may run into similar problems in scheduled jobs. One way around it is to add a wildcard binding (“*”) for your default site.

That will then be your default site definition (as in SiteDefinition.Current.StartPage or ContentReference.StartPage) when there’s no current site, or outside of web requests.

#140278

Oct 14, 2015 20:14

Jaldip Patel

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Thanks for the suggestion. I can give that a try and probably will work until I have one site.

Is there a way to figure out which site the job is running for and get the start page based on that?

#140279

Oct 14, 2015 20:25

Per Magne Skuseth

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Are you creating a multisite with several start pages? Otherwise it will not be a problem.

If you are running the scheduled the job in a multisite setup though, I don't think there is a way to see which site the job is running on, as the scheduled job is not running on a web request. A possible solution could be to get the RootPage instead (ContentReference.RootPage), and then do a GetChildren to get all start pages, and the find the correct one.

#140282

Oct 14, 2015 20:54