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Using Find in a non episerver application
You can use Find without Episerver absolutly!
If you do not want to use the typed search then you should use Unified Search, read more here:
A good way to learn is to look at Allans exampels here, where you can see how he use it in a non epi solution
https://github.com/AThraen/HotelsSample/
Good luck!
Mar 29, 2018 8:05
You can use Find without Episerver absolutly!
If you do not want to use the typed search then you should use Unified Search, read more here:
A good way to learn is to look at Allans exampels here, where you can see how he use it in a non epi solution
https://github.com/AThraen/HotelsSample/
Good luck!
Mar 29, 2018 8:05
Just to help others out, I managed to get this working and the bot app can talk to the index but there were a few quirks.
As the indexing is done by the main episerver site with find I needed to create a class in the external application with the same name space as the content type in the main site.
for example in the external application:
// use the namespace of the main episerver site
namespace MyEpiProject.Base.PageTypes
{
public class ContentPage
{
public string PageName { get; set; }
public string PageSummary { get; set; }
}
}
Then use it in the external application as:
var client = new Client("<your epi find URL>", "<Your epi find index name");
var result = client.Search<ContentPage>().For("Your keyword").Select(x => new ContentPage(){PageName = x.PageName, PageSummary = x.PageSummary}).GetResult();
Without this I would get 0 results regardless.
Hope it helps someone!
Apr 05, 2018 7:52
That is true, since when you search for a specfic type then it will use the whole namespace to identify it.
One thing, create the client with .CreateFromConfig() instead.
Apr 05, 2018 8:07
Hi All,
I'm building a bot based on the ms bot framework and i'd like to be able to connect to our Find index.
I added the Episerver Find Nuget package to the project and configured the app settings to connect to the index
The issue I have is that all of the search objects require a type when searching .. for example:
var searchResult = client.Search()
.For("Beethoven")
.GetResult();
This example requires the type of "BlogPost"
Is what I am trying to do possible or does it need to be linked with the CMS?
Any help, much appreciated.
Thanks,
Paul