You need to provide more information, if you will.

I use standard Razor search - script file you can see below:

@using Examine
@using System.Text.RegularExpressions
@using umbraco.MacroEngines
@inherits DynamicNodeContext
@{
    // retrieve the search term from the query string
    var searchTerm = Request.QueryString["search"];

    // Get the searcher from examine
    var searcher = ExamineManager.Instance.SearchProviderCollection["CWSSearcher"];
    
    // Do the search
    
    var results = searcher.Search(searchTerm, true);
    
    <div id="search">
        <h2 class="flashHeader"><strong>Search Results</strong></h2>
        @ShowSummary(results, searchTerm)
        <div id="search_results">
        @foreach (var result in results)
        {
            @DisplaySearchResult(result, searchTerm) 
        }
        </div>
    </div>
}

@helper ShowSummary(ISearchResults results, string searchTerm)
{
    var count = results.Count();
    <p id="search_summary">
    @switch (count)
    {
        case 0:
            @Html.Raw("No matches were found for ") <strong>@searchTerm</strong>
            break;
        case 1:
            @Html.Raw("Your search for ")<strong>@searchTerm</strong>@Html.Raw(" matches ")<strong>1</strong>@Html.Raw(" page")
            break;
        default:
            @Html.Raw("Your search for ")<strong>@searchTerm</strong>@Html.Raw(" matches ")<strong>@count</strong>@Html.Raw(" pages")
            break;
    }
    </p>
}

@helper DisplaySearchResult(SearchResult result, string searchTerm)
{
    // Initialize title and description
    var title = string.Empty;
    var description = string.Empty;

    // Get the nodeTypeAlias and based on this, set the title and description
    var nodeTypeAlias = result.Fields["nodeTypeAlias"];
    switch(nodeTypeAlias)
    {
        case "CWS_Home":
        case "CWS_Textpage":
            title = result.Fields["headerText"];
            description = result.Fields["bodyText"];
            break;
        case "CWS_NewsItem":
        case "CWS_EventItem":
            title = result.Fields["nodeName"];
            description = result.Fields["bodyText"];
            break;
        case "CWS_TextpageTwoCol":
            title = result.Fields["headerText"];
            description = string.Concat(result.Fields["bodyTextColOne"], result.Fields["bodyTextColTwo"]);
            break;
    }

    // Format the description
    description = FormatText(description, searchTerm);
    
    // Get the item url
    var url = Library.NodeById(result.Fields["id"]).Url;

    <div class="search_result">
        <p class="search_result_title">
            <a href="@url" class="search_title">@title</a>
        </p>
        <p class="search_result_description">
            <span class="search_description">@Html.Raw(description)</span>
        </p>
    </div>
    
}

@functions
{
    static string FormatText(string text, string matchCase)
    {
        if (string.IsNullOrEmpty(text) || string.IsNullOrEmpty(matchCase))
        {
            return string.Empty;
        }

        var regex = new Regex(string.Format(@"({0})", matchCase), RegexOptions.IgnoreCase);
        string[] sentences = regex.Split(text);
        if (sentences.Length > 2 && !sentences[0].Equals(matchCase))
        {
            if (sentences[0].Length > 60)
            {
                text = "... " + text.Remove(0, sentences[0].Length - 40);
            }
        }

        if (text.Length > 200)
        {
            text = text.Substring(0, 200) + " ...";
        }

        text = regex.Replace(text, string.Format("<strong>{0}</strong>", matchCase));
        return text;
    }
}

What kind of information do you need?

Hi Adam,

I'm not sure as I haven't use examine yet, but could it be that the searcher.Search fails is the search term is empty or null?

It also depends on what you want to do idf the search term is empty, but maybe you can try checking if the searchTerm is null or empty prior to launching the search, and if it is, display a warning message "please fill in a search term" or something like that? I guess the idea is not to return the whole site pages in case the search term is empty.

Hope this helps.

Cheers,

Michael.

I tried to add if clause but it also throws exception (see below)

@using Examine
@using System.Text.RegularExpressions
@using umbraco.MacroEngines
@inherits DynamicNodeContext
@{
    // retrieve the search term from the query string
    var searchTerm = Request.QueryString["search"];

    // Get the searcher from examine
    var searcher = ExamineManager.Instance.SearchProviderCollection["CWSSearcher"];
    
    // Do the search
    if (searchTerm != null)

{
    var results = searcher.Search(searchTerm, true);
    
    <div id="search">
        <h2 class="flashHeader"><strong>Search Results</strong></h2>
        @ShowSummary(results, searchTerm)
        <div id="search_results">
        @foreach (var result in results)
        {
            @DisplaySearchResult(result, searchTerm) 
        }
        </div>
        </div>

}
}

Great!! That's working - thank you

Nice :-)

Can you maybe mark my previous post as the answer to the thread, so that other people having similar problem might find the solution more easily? Thx!

Cheers,

Michael.

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