Unified search with categories

Tim Brown

Vote:

I'm trying to use unified search to filter the results based on category. I've got so far

var results = SearchClient.Instance.UnifiedSearchFor(searchDefinition.SearchTerm, Language.English)
                                                                    .Filter(x => x.MatchTypeHierarchy(typeof(ContentPageBase)))
                                                                    .Filter(y => y.SearchCategories.Match("5"))
                                                                    .Skip(searchDefinition.Page - 1)
                                                                    .Take(pageSize);

And the SeachCategories method is implemented on ContentBasePage as

        [Ignore]
        public virtual IEnumerable<string> SearchCategories 
        { 
            get 
            {
                return this.Category.Select(x => x.ToString());
            } 
        }

Bu tfind doesn't return any results even though I know that there is a page in category "5" (filter hardcoded for demo purposes). Can anyone spot what is going on. Also - I would like to peek into Searchcategories in the search results (in VS debug mode) to see what is there - but the property seems to be unavailable.

Really appreciate any help

Thanks

#85904

May 08, 2014 11:45

Petter Klang

Vote:

Think you need to change the:

.Filter(y => y.SearchCategories.Match("5"))

As the SearchCategories are a list over categories you can't use match.

In my solution I created my own filter and then added that to the query.

 var catalogBuilder = SearchClient.Instance.BuildFilter<PageData>();

                foreach (int category in input.Categories)
                    catalogBuilder = catalogBuilder.Or(x => x.Category.Match(category));

                query = query.Filter(catalogBuilder)

#85905

May 08, 2014 11:57

Tim Brown

Vote:

Thanks Petter.

But it turns out that SearchCategories has the category name not the id. Sooo

y.SearchCategories.Match("CategoryName"))

Works.

I found this out by looking in the find index in the admin view of the CMS (click the find tab)

Cheers

#85926

May 08, 2014 17:19