Excluding pages from index

Petter Klang

Vote:

Got an issue with trying to disable pages from the Index.

In globla I'm setting up the following:

ontentIndexer.Instance.Conventions.ForInstancesOf<BasePageData>().ShouldIndex(x => !x.HideFromSearch);

Setting the HideFromSearch property on a page and running the reindexing job works fine. I.e the page is excluded from the index. But if I go in and set the property and just publish the page it isn't removed from the index. Instead the "old" document of the page is still in the index.

Is there a way to force Find to delete pages on the publish event?

#76834

Nov 04, 2013 13:59

Andreas Nicolaisen

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This is not exactly the answer to your question, but it will solve your problem:

You can make a filter instead like this:

public ITypeSearch<IBasePageData> HideFromSearchFilter(ITypeSearch<IBasePageData> searchQuery)
{
searchQuery = searchQuery.Filter(x => x.ExcludePageFromSearch.Match(false));
return searchQuery;
}

You need to customize the code a some for your solution, but you get the point.

#76877

Nov 05, 2013 13:58

Petter Klang

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Thanks Andreas!

That would work but as we depend on the Index on more then one place it feels it could become cumbersum. So I would rather see it remove from the Index.

I have been talking to EPi some on the side and it seems what I need to do is to make my own hook on the change event and check if the page should be deleted.

But I might have been able to convince EPi that this should work out of the box so let's keep our fingers crossed! =)

#76879

Nov 05, 2013 14:20

Marcus Granström

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Hi,

At the moment @Petter Klang you need to do like you said and listen to the event and then check if that thing has changed and then do a delete of the item.

I have also put this on the backlog so that it will be implemented soon.

Thanks for pointing us in this direction.

#76880

Nov 05, 2013 14:31

Henrik Lindström

Vote:

Hi,

ShouldIndex is called right before indexing so I would just do:

ContentIndexer.Instance.Conventions.ForInstancesOf<StandardpagePageType>().ShouldIndex(x =>
{
var shouldIndex = x.HideFromSearch;
if (!shouldIndex)
{
try
{
ContentIndexer.Instance.Delete(x);
}
catch
{
//ignore
}
}

return shouldIndex;
});

to remove the content.

/Henrik

#77404

Nov 18, 2013 16:21

Henrik Fransas

Vote:

Thanks Henrik Lindström, this was exactly what I was after.
One question. Why do you ignore the catch, what can happen there that are of no importence?

#77475

Nov 20, 2013 9:07