Index dynamic profile pages

Jonatan Dahl

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Hi,
We have approx 6000 users (in a separate db) and a dynamic user profile page that shows user details.
A user id in the querystring of the profile page is used to show a specific user´s profile.

How can we use Find to index this dynamic page for each user so that all user profile pages will be searchable?

#143998

Feb 04, 2016 12:00

Per Magne Skuseth

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I suppose you could create a scheduled job where you: Get the users -> create user object -> include the user profile page in the user object -> index user objects.

If you are using UnifiedSearch, there are various ways to include the user objects in the unified search. Check out the documentation: http://world.episerver.com/documentation/Items/Developers-Guide/EPiServer-Find/11/DotNET-Client-API/Searching/Unified-search/

#144000

Feb 04, 2016 12:24

Daniel Ovaska

Vote:

You can index any type of object with find so no problem at all.

//Specifying the id by modifying the command

var user = ...get users and add profile information...

client.Index(user,

x => x.Id = 42);

//Specifying that a property should be used as id or use client conventions for it

public class User

{

[Id]

public int Id { get; set; }

public string UserName {get;set;}

...add profileinformation...

}

Scheduled job like Skuseth says above is great for triggering indexing.

Then depending on how you want to show them you can either use UnifiedSearch (for a single global search page that shows all kinds of search hits) or a specified search for persons. If the latter you can use

var query = ...

var searchResult = client.Search<User>()

.For(query)

.GetResult();

int numberOfDocsMatchingTheSearch = searchResult.TotalMatching;

int executionTime = searchResult.ServerDuration;

FacetResults facets = searchResult.Facets;

IEnumerable<SearchResultItem<User>> hits = searchResult.Hits;

...
Then loop through the hits to display them...

Don't you just love that strongly typed syntax of Find? :)

#144005

Edited, Feb 04, 2016 12:35