Search categories with EPiServer Find

anders.forslund@capgemini.com

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Hi!

I'm currently in a project where they use EPiServer Find and unfortunately I haven't used it before so I'm kind of lost.

At the moment you can only search for pages by Text and Title:

var findClient = Client.CreateFromConfig();

var queryObject = findClient.Search<SitePageData>()
.For(query)
.WildCardQuery(String.Format("{0}*", query), x => x.SearchText())
.WildCardQuery(String.Format("{0}*", query), x => x.SearchTitle())

After this code there are some filtering done aswell but that is irrelevant.

What I want to do now is to be able to get hits on the categories of the page also.

I tried something like this:

.WildCardQuery(String.Format("{0}*", query), x => x.SearchCategories()) but it want a string and not an IEnumerable. So I tried this:

.WildCardQuery(String.Format("{0}*", query), x => ConvertCategoriesToString(x.SearchCategories())). It compiles but doesn't work.

I also tried using "InField" like they do here: http://find.episerver.com/Documentation/dotnet-api-searching

but it still doesnt work with categories, only simple strings.

I think I'm not approaching this correct at all...

Some help would be very nice :)

#86921

Jun 04, 2014 12:03

anders.forslund@capgemini.com

Vote:

Doh, now I feel stupid. It actually worked all along...

I had to write the entire category string in the search query to get a hit (of course). I got confused by the wild card queries for Text and Title where you dont need to write the entire title or text to get a hit (of course).

#86925

Jun 04, 2014 12:52

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