Episerver FIND Unified Search Custom Categories

Jonathan Roberts

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Hi,

I would like to use the Unified Search functionality of FIND to filter search results using our own custom categories and our own Published Date fields as Facets, but I cant see how this can be done - I have searched the internet for days and cant find any documentation about this.

I have used the alternative way:

var queryx = client.Search<DocumentFile>()
                .For(Query)
                .TermsFacetFor(x => x.SubjectTags)
                .TermsFacetFor(x => x.DocumentTags)
                .OrderByDescending(x => x.DatePublished);

BUt I would ideally like to use the UnifiedSearch method.

Can you help?

Jon

#79813

Jan 08, 2014 9:49

Per Magne Skuseth

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You can easily index extra information by adding extension methods. Here's an example: http://world.episerver.com/Modules/Forum/Pages/Thread.aspx?id=79729

#79815

Jan 08, 2014 10:08

Jonathan Roberts

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Hi, Many thanks. How would you apply this so our facets are derived from a categorylist which is a property of a page.

All the examples we have seen regarding facets always seem to reference the pageName rather than any other type.

Thanks again,

Jon

#79820

Jan 08, 2014 10:51

Per Magne Skuseth

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On a second thought, I think the easiest approach in this case would be to do the following:

create facets by using the "SearchCategories" property, which is part of the ISearchContent interface(which is used by unified search).

.TermsFacetFor(x => x.SearchCategories);

On your page classes, ArticlePage, SitePageData, etc. create a property named SearchCategories. By doing this you will override what normally would be indexed, which is the standard category property.

        public IEnumerable<string> SearchCategories
        {
            get
            {
                foreach (int category in SomeCategoryProperty)
                {
                    yield return Category.GetCategoryName(category);
                }
            }
        }

And then run the cms content indexing job.

#79830

Jan 08, 2014 11:53

Jonathan Roberts

Vote:

Hi,

That is great, many thanks. Second question, How would I get a single string such as DatePublished to come back as a Facet?

Jon

#79832

Jan 08, 2014 12:03

Per Magne Skuseth

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For datetime facets I would recommend using the HistogramFacetFor method
http://find.episerver.com/Documentation/dotnet-api-histogram-facets

The ISearchContent interface contains a couple of DateTime methods that you could override.
http://world.episerver.com/Documentation/Items/Developers-Guide/EPiServer-Find1/75/DotNET-Client-API/Searching/Unified-search/

Optionally create an extension which returns a string, as referenced in my first reply, and use TermsFacetFor on that

#79835

Jan 08, 2014 12:18

Jonathan Roberts

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Excellent many thanks

#79836

Jan 08, 2014 12:19