Hi Carl,

If you create a custom catalog index builder,  you can add any fields to the Lucene index

public class CustomCatalogIndexBuilder : CatalogIndexBuilder
{

/// <summary>
/// Called when catalog entry is indexed. Override this method to add some extra fields.
/// </summary>
/// <param name="document">The document.</param>
/// <param name="entry">The entry.</param>
/// <param name="language"></param>
protected override void OnCatalogEntryIndex(ref SearchDocument document, CatalogEntryDto.CatalogEntryRow entry, string language)
{
// add the fields to be indexed
document.Add(new SearchField("isactive", entry.IsActive));

base.OnCatalogEntryIndex(ref document, entry, language);

}
}

Having said that, the "Code" column is in the Lucene search index by default.

Try running Luke and check if it's being properly populated in your index:

http://www.getopt.org/luke/

Code is in the index. I've verified that with Luke.

Consider the admin UI: http://webhelp.episerver.com/Commerce/1.1.2/Default.htm#CSHID=undefined

If I enter the a code in the "Search by keywords" box: I get no hits.

If I enter a code in "Search by Code" i get the corresponding hit.

I want to have one search box on the user web page, where I can write either keywords or a product code. Of course I could always just get the item by the code from CatalogContext, however the search page is populated from a CatalogIndexSearchDataSource and I would like to have the product code hits added (union) to the same datasource before returning it to the page.

I was hoping I could instruct the search parameters to include the code.

Here's my current solution that I was hoping to obsolete:

                 //Normal search up to here

                dataSource = new CatalogIndexSearchDataSource();
                dataSource.TotalResults = count;
                dataSource.CatalogEntries = entries;
 
 
                //Add product code hits
                if (!string.IsNullOrWhiteSpace(keywords))
                {
                    //Add product code hits:
                    List<Mediachase.Commerce.Catalog.Objects.Entry> productCodeHits = new List<Mediachase.Commerce.Catalog.Objects.Entry>();
                    foreach (string keyword in keywords.Split(' '))
                    {
                        Mediachase.Commerce.Catalog.Objects.Entry entry = CatalogContext.Current.GetCatalogEntry(keyword);
                        if (null != entry)
                        {
                            productCodeHits.Add(entry);
                        }
                    }
 
                    if (0 == dataSource.TotalResults)
                    {
                        entries.Entry = productCodeHits.ToArray();
                    }
                    else
                    {
                        entries.Entry = entries.Entry.Union(productCodeHits).ToArray();
                    }
                    dataSource.TotalResults += productCodeHits.Count;
                    dataSource.CatalogEntries = entries;
                }
            }

What version are you using

With the latest version with of solr provider, with solr configuratiion files you can control which fields are copied into the _cotent field to be searched

With lucene by default code is not coped to the _content field.  You would need to make a change to the catalogbuildindexer to copy that field to the _content field

Where can I find documentation that explains the solr configuration and search?

http://sdk.episerver.com/commerce/1.1.2/Content/Developers%20Guide/ConfigurationDeployment/IN_ConfiguringSolrSearchPrvider.htm