Indexing additional content when indexing PageData objects?

Anders G. Nordby

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I have an EPiServer 7.5+ CMS site with EPiServer Find installed. I also have a custom database containing some relevant metadata, and I would really like some of this metadata to be indexed with the pages. How can I accomplish this?

This old(?) documentation http://find.episerver.com/Documentation/dotnet-api-including-fields describes something that would work just fine, but I can not find any such thing as IncludeField. Is there any way to include extra fields before indexing a page object? Or, is there an event I could hook up to, making me add relevant data before the page object is indexed?

#90742

Sep 17, 2014 10:39

Anders G. Nordby

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I found the solution myself, and blogged about it:

http://andersnordby.wordpress.com/2014/09/17/episerver-find-indexing-metadata-with-pagedata/

#90759

Sep 17, 2014 13:48

Henrik Lindström

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If your additional content is IContent you could use:

http://world.episerver.com/Documentation/Items/Developers-Guide/EPiServer-Find/8/Integration/EPiServer-7-CMS/Related-content-and-dependencies/

#90760

Edited, Sep 17, 2014 13:58

Anders G. Nordby

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Yes, but in my case the whole point was that it was NOT an IContent, but something living in a totally different kind of database.

#90767

Sep 17, 2014 15:38

Arve Systad

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You could also just do the following on application startup, should work for any type:

var findClient = ServiceLocator.Current.GetInstance();
findClient.Conventions.ForInstancesOf().IncludeField(a => a.AnExtensionMethodThatReturnsSomeContent());

#90768

Sep 17, 2014 16:02

Anders G. Nordby

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@Arve: No, you can not. There is no InludeField method any more.

#90790

Sep 18, 2014 8:56

Henrik Lindström

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IncludeField(...) is still available in EPiServer.Find.ClientConventions.TypeConventionBuilder

#90791

Sep 18, 2014 9:06

Anders G. Nordby

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Don't seem to be able to insert a screenshot here, but take a look at this:

http://andersnordby.wordpress.com/?attachment_id=733

Absolutely NO sign of the IncludeField method...

#90792

Sep 18, 2014 9:15

Henrik Lindström

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It is on IClient and not the ContentIndexer. See Arves answer.

#90822

Sep 18, 2014 14:07

Anders G. Nordby

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#90862

Edited, Sep 19, 2014 11:46

Anders G. Nordby

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My reploy above went to the wrong thread; correct thread is here: http://world.episerver.com/Modules/Forum/Pages/thread.aspx?id=85490&pageIndex=1#reply

#90864

Sep 19, 2014 13:19

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Indexing additional content when indexing PageData objects?