Kristian,

Isnt path stored as csv list so would need some kind of fuzzy logic?  Might also be worth checking how its stored in lucene using luke. I recall in old umbSearch the path was stored as 1055s1056s1057

Regards

Ismail

Hi Ismail, thanks for reply

In umbraco.config, path is stored as an attribute on the node like this: ---nodeTypeAlias="Article" path="-1,1048,1075,5049">. The main different is as far as I can see that the path is an attribute, while the other properties are elements of the node.

Example; when searching for all nodes with nodeTypeAlias like "article" they've created an extra extension method: criteria.NodeTypeAlias("article"). So maybe it should be an extension method for path to.

Tested a bit more. This gives results:

Examine.ExamineManager.Instance.Search(provider.CreateSearchCriteria(UmbracoExamine.IndexTypes.Content).NodeTypeAlias("article").And().NodeName("test".Fuzzy()).Compile()).First().Fields
Count = 11
    [0]: {[Lead, lorem ipsum dolor sit amet, consectetur adipisicing elit, sed do eiusmod tempor incididunt ut labore et dolore magna aliqua. ]}
    [1]: {[Photo, 30059]}
    [2]: {[ShowByLine, 0]}
    [3]: {[umbracoNaviHide, 0]}
    [4]: {[id, 30064]}
    [5]: {[nodeName, loreum ipsum dolor est sint]}
    [6]: {[updateDate, 20100804121538000]}
    [7]: {[writerName, kristian]}
    [8]: {[path, -1,30050,30063,30064]}
    [9]: {[nodeTypeAlias, article]}
    [10]: {[parentID, 30063]}

Examine.ExamineManager.Instance.Search(provider.CreateSearchCriteria(UmbracoExamine.IndexTypes.Content).Field("path","-1,30050,30063,30064").Compile())
{UmbracoExamine.SearchResults}
    [UmbracoExamine.SearchResults]: {UmbracoExamine.SearchResults}
    TotalItemCount: 1

So if I could get "," to be used as a seperator insted of whitespace, it might work

Hi again :-)

Now this works:

Examine.ExamineManager.Instance.Search(provider.CreateSearchCriteria(UmbracoExamine.IndexTypes.Content).Field("path","-1".MultipleCharacterWildcard().Then("30063").MultipleCharacterWildcard()).Compile())

Seems a bit crappy, but it did the trick :-)

Thanks Ismail for the pointer

Kristian,

I am trying this with latest examine release my code looks like

 var provider = ExamineManager.Instance.SearchProviderCollection[providerName];
 var query =provider.CreateSearchCriteria(IndexTypes.Content);
 
                    query.NodeTypeAlias(nodeTypeAlias).And().Field("path", "-1".MultipleCharacterWildcard().
                        Then(parentNode.ToString().MultipleCharacterWildcard().Value)).
                        And().OrderByDescending(sortField);
 
var results = provider.Search(query);

I get query output that looks like +__NodeTypeAlias:newsitem +path:"1 2362" which comes back with nothing.  In you example you dont have .Value at end of MultipleWildCard() but if i dont have it then i get syntax error could be due to latest version examine changes.

Any ideas?

Regards

Ismail

In answer to me question for now i used rawquery namely +__NodeTypeAlias:newsitem +path:\-1*2363* which works.

Regards

Ismail

Use the GatheringNodeData event and split the comma separated string into a space separated string then you can query on the ID exactly

@slace,

Ah good point with the gatheringnodedata event for now im using raw query which is a nice little gem you have included into examine api #h5yr!

Regards

Ismail

I blogged it here: http://farmcode.org/post/2010/09/22/Searching-Multi-Node-Tree-Picker-data-(or-any-collection)-with-Examine.aspx

Hey folks, I did as slace suggested--split the path string into a space separated string in the GatheringNodeData event. Using Luke I can confirm that the data is indeed split.  For ex:  "-1 1179 1183 1355 1271"

However I am still unable to directly search on a node id.  Can anyone confirm that this actually works.

Update:  I guess that maybe because path is a system controlled field simply replacing the comma with a space doesn't work well.  As shown in my example above, it still shows up in Luke as one long string, but without the commas.

What I did was to simply add a new field to search on in the ExamineEvents_GatheringNodeData that contains the path with spaces instead of commas and it works like a champ now! 

e.Fields.Add("searchablePath",e.Fields["path"].Replace(',',' '));

Hey this help me.  Cheers!

I know this is an old topic, but I wonder if someone can help.

I'm trying to implement something like the suggestions here, but I don't seem to have a 'Then' method available to me?! Has this been removed in a more recent release of Examine?

Any pointers would be appreciated.

Thanks,
- Chris

Chris,

What do you mean by then method? Can you paste some code please.

Regards

Ismail

Hi,

I was referring to one of the examples above...

var provider =ExamineManager.Instance.SearchProviderCollection[providerName];

var query =provider.CreateSearchCriteria(IndexTypes.Content);

                    query.NodeTypeAlias(nodeTypeAlias).And().Field("path","-1".MultipleCharacterWildcard().

                       Then(parentNode.ToString().MultipleCharacterWildcard().Value)).

                       And().OrderByDescending(sortField);

var results = provider.Search(query);

Thanks,

- Chris

Chris,

Not sure where you copied that example from but I have never seen then? However change the then to and that should fix it?

Regards

Ismail

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