prevent examine indexing images

Dan 1288 posts 3921 karma points c-trib

Jan 20, 2012 @ 13:19

Hi,

I have a site search which needs to search several document types and some properties of the file media type. I've set up an index like this:

<IndexSet SetName="SiteSearchIndexSet" IndexPath="~/App_Data/TEMP/ExamineIndexes/SiteSearch/">
        <IndexAttributeFields>
            <add Name="id" />
            <add Name="nodeName"/>
            <add Name="updateDate" />
            <add Name="writerName" />
            <add Name="loginName" />
            <add Name="email" />
            <add Name="nodeTypeAlias" />
        </IndexAttributeFields>
        <IndexUserFields>
            <add Name="pageTitle" />
            <add Name="metaKeywords" />
            <add Name="metaDescription" />
            <add Name="mainContent" />
            <add Name="introText" />
            <add Name="mainText" />
            <add Name="title" />
            <add Name="reference" />
            <add Name="keyWords" />
        </IndexUserFields>
        <IncludeNodeTypes>
            <add Name="File" />
            <add Name="GeneralTextPage" />
            <add Name="GridOfSubPages" />
            <add Name="Home" />
            <add Name="ListingOfSubPages" />
            <add Name="NewsArticle" />
            <add Name="NewsSection" />
            <add Name="SubPage" />
        </IncludeNodeTypes>
        <ExcludeNodeTypes>
            <add Name="Image" />
            <add Name="Folder" />
        </ExcludeNodeTypes>    
    </IndexSet>

However, the search results are still returning images from the media section - despite me including the 'Image' media type in the excluded node type. I can filter these out pretty easily with the Razor script but would rather understand why they're being returned to begin with.

Does anyone know if this is a bug or are my config settings not right?

Thanks folks!

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Ismail Mayat 4511 posts 10091 karma points MVP 2x admin c-trib

Jan 20, 2012 @ 17:13

Dan,

In theory it should not index image and folder. Can you paste your examine search code if you set the indextype to content then that will ignore media items from the search.

Regards

Ismail

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Dan 1288 posts 3921 karma points c-trib

Jan 20, 2012 @ 17:31

Hi Ismail,

A little rough around the edges but here's the Razor code. It's not a straight forward search as it's searching both content nodes and media nodes (of type 'File' only - not images or folders). It also requires that members are logged in if they are to be able to see the file download links, otherwise they still get the search result but with a prompt to log in rather than a download link. It works great except for the fact that it's showing image media items in the search results. I've tried deleting the examine index and restarting the app pool etc but it still throws up images in the search results.

@using Examine;
@using umbraco;


@helper Truncate(string input,int length)
{
    if(input.Length<=length){
        @Html.Raw(input)
    }else{
        @Html.Raw(input.Substring(0,length))<text>...</text>
    }
}


@{var searchTerm = Request.Form["search"];}


  @if (searchTerm != ""){
    <h2>Showing @ExamineManager.Instance.Search(searchTerm, true).Count() results for @searchTerm</h2>
    <div class="search-results">
      @foreach (var result in ExamineManager.Instance.Search(searchTerm, true)) {
        if (result.Fields["nodeTypeAlias"] == "File"){                                
          if (library.IsLoggedOn()) {
            <article>
              <h3><a href="@result.Fields["umbracoFile"]" title="Download file" target="_blank">@result.Fields["nodeName"]</a></h3>
              @if (result.Fields.ContainsKey("fileTitle"))
              {
                <p>@result.Fields["fileTitle"]</p>
              }
              <p class="link"><a href="@result.Fields["umbracoFile"]" title="Download file" target="_blank">Download file</a></p>
            </article>
          } else {
            <article>
              <h3>@result.Fields["nodeName"]</h3>
              @if (result.Fields.ContainsKey("fileTitle"))
              {
                <p>@result.Fields["fileTitle"]</p>
              }
              <p class="link">You must <a href="@umbraco.library.NiceUrl(1162)" title="">log in</a> to view this document</p>
            </article>
          }
        }
        else
        {
          <article>
            <h3><a href="@umbraco.library.NiceUrl(result.Id)" title="@result.Fields["nodeName"]">@result.Fields["nodeName"]</a></h3>
            @if (result.Fields.ContainsKey("mainContent"))
            {
              <p>@Truncate(result.Fields["mainContent"],200)</p>
            }
            <p class="link">
              <a href="@umbraco.library.NiceUrl(result.Id)">
                @umbraco.library.NiceUrl(result.Id)
              </a>
            </p>
          </article>
        }
      }
    </div>
  }