Avoid indexing contentassetfolder/Media Images

senthil Kumar

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Hi,

I've just integrated our episerver site with Find (Episerver version : 8, Episerver Find version: 9.2) . I tried to index from admin mode (using the content indexing job).

I'm seeing that our contentassetsfolder/media images are also getting indexed to Episerver Find Index. Can you please let me know how I can avoid indexing images/content assets folders.

Thanks in advance.

#148131

May 04, 2016 11:44

Daniel Ovaska

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You can customize what you want to index by using conventions in EPiServer Find

//using EPiServer.Find.Cms.Conventions;
 
ContentIndexer.Instance.Conventions
  .ForInstancesOf<LoginPageType>()
  .ShouldIndex(x => false);

...preferably at application startup or similar. So add conventions like above to remove the content types you are not interested in getting search hits from.

Also check out the Alloy template example website for implementation example. For images you can insert your image type you want to exclude from index in below like

//using EPiServer.Find.Cms.Conventions;
 
ContentIndexer.Instance.Conventions
  .ForInstancesOf<ImageData>()
  .ShouldIndex(x => false);

#148136

Edited, May 04, 2016 12:06

senthil Kumar

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Hi,

Thanks for your reply. This works fine.

#148148

May 04, 2016 19:03

Aziz Khakulov

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So what is the way to make Find not index ContentAssesFolders/image files?

#170801

Oct 31, 2016 9:25

Daniel Ovaska

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You can use the same method like above but insert your image type instead (ImageData or similar). That will tell Episerver Find not to index those. You might have to trigger the scheduled job to remove the images that were already indexed btw...

#170807

Oct 31, 2016 10:31

Aria Zanganeh

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@Aziz: If you want to exclude special folder from being index you can go:

ContentIndexer.Instance.Conventions.ForInstancesOf<IContent>().ShouldIndex(x => !x.ParentLink.Equals(siteSettings.contentAssetFolderToIgnoreContentReference));

siteSetting could be start page of each site!

#170808

Oct 31, 2016 10:35