Episerver Find setup to Index multiple sites

Vishal Panday

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Hey Guys,

I have episerver CMS experience, but still a rookie setting up Episerver Find in projects.

So we have a website with 2 websites in it. (with 2 different startpages, using their own domain).

My question is about setting up episerver find.

I did the basics of installing the nuget packages, i created a free demo index, and setup the web.config.

Now the indexing starts but it indexes everything in the same (demo)index. So both sites.

What is the best practice/approach to search only pages which are in 1 site. Is that in the logic of the code or can we setup the index differently accomadate searching in specific content of 1 of the sites.

I hope to hear about your thoughts.

regards

#183775

Oct 23, 2017 10:28

Janaka Fernando

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Hi Vishal,

This is the intended design for Find. You can filter content for particular site for any IContent types like so.

var content = SearchClient.Instance.Search<IContent>()
  .Filter(x => x.SiteId().Match("MySiteId"))
  .GetContentResult();

#183786

Oct 23, 2017 14:30

Vishal Panday

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Cool thanks Janaka... i will try that...

Also we have like a block type which contains a search box. And the idea is that it can only find items/pages that are hierarchically a descendant page of the page the blocks is on..

How can you search for that using Find's api.

#183788

Oct 23, 2017 15:01

Janaka Fernando

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To do that use the Ancestors property to filter based on the content reference of the section of the site you want to filter against. Something like

SearchClient.Instance.Search<IContent>()
.Filter(x => x.Ancestors().Match(contentReference.ToString());

#183791

Oct 23, 2017 15:46

Vishal Panday

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thanks mate!!

#183793

Oct 23, 2017 16:03