Hi vaibhav,

Did you read the available documentation? It can be found here: http://www.farmcode.org/page/Umbraco-Examine.aspx, and here: http://examine.codeplex.com/documentation.

If you have an Umbraco.tv subscription there is also 3 instructional video available at: http://umbraco.com/help-and-support/video-tutorials/developing-with-umbraco

If you already did read that please don't hesitate to post and ask about specifik problems and questions you have.

Regards
Jesper Hauge

Hi,

I did read that document ...but i want the steps for implementing the lucene search ....

can u plz tell these steps ....

Hi vaibhav,

I can give you an overview:

• Configure Examine to index what you want to search by setting up ExamineIndex.config and ExamineSettings.config
  I Usually set up a separate index from the default indexes used by the umbraco backend.
• Publish a node in umbraco backend, and verify that your index folder is created, if you want you can even check the content of the index with Luke.
• Create an ASP.NET usercontrol that performs the search and lists out the result. The code below is an example that performs a search on a limited set of Institution nodes, but your code could be very different depending on your needs

// From the search masterpage/usercontrol codebehind
private List<Institution> GetInstitutions()
{
    // Perform search
    string searchTerm = SearchTerm.Text;
    ExamineManager mgr = ExamineManager.Instance;
    ISearchCriteria criteria = mgr.SearchProviderCollection["InstitutionSearcher"].CreateSearchCriteria();
    IBooleanOperation filter = GetFilter(searchTerm, criteria);
    ISearchResults searchResults = mgr.SearchProviderCollection["InstitutionSearcher"].Search(filter.Compile());
    if (searchResults.Any())
        return searchResults.Select(r => new Institution(r)).ToList(); //I've got a class that has a .ctor which takes a searchresult 

    return null;
}

private IBooleanOperation GetFilter(string searchTerm, ISearchCriteria criteria)
{
    // If searchterm is numeric we'll search on zipcode
    int zipCode;
    if (int.TryParse(searchTerm, out zipCode))
    {
        return criteria.Field("zipcode", searchTerm);
    }

    // If not we'll search on name and address
    IExamineValue[] examineValues = { searchTerm.MultipleCharacterWildcard() };
    if (searchTerm.Contains(" "))
    {
        string[] terms = searchTerm.Split(' ');
        List<IExamineValue> values = new List<IExamineValue>();
        foreach (var term in terms)
        {
            values.Add(term.MultipleCharacterWildcard());
        }
        examineValues = values.ToArray();
    }
    return criteria.GroupedOr(new[] { "name", "address" }, examineValues);
}

// From the Institution.cs
public Institution(SearchResult hit)
{
    Id = hit.Id; // You could also return the node of the hit using new Node(hit.Id)
    Number = hit.Fields.ContainsKey("instId") ? int.Parse(hit.Fields["instId"]) : -1;
    Name = hit.Fields.ContainsKey("name") ? hit.Fields["name"] : "";
    Address = hit.Fields.ContainsKey("address") ? hit.Fields["address"] : "";
    ZipCode = hit.Fields.ContainsKey("zipcode") ? hit.Fields["zipcode"] : "";
    City = hit.Fields.ContainsKey("city") ? hit.Fields["city"] : "";
    WebUrl = hit.Fields.ContainsKey("webUrl") ? hit.Fields["webUrl"] : "";
}

There's some articles as well in blogworld you could look at:
http://joeriks.wordpress.com/2011/03/15/ajax-enabled-search-in-umbraco-using-examine-and-razor/
http://www.thereturnvalue.com/blog/2010/11/13/implements-examine-search-in-a-multi-language-umbraco-site
http://www.yart.com.au/Resources/Umbraco-Tips-And-Tricks/Umbraco-Examine-Site-Search.aspx
To get and idea of how others are doing this.

Regards
Jesper Hauge

Hi,

I found one demo website from here.......http://www.farmcode.org/post/2010/07/01/Examine-demo-site-source-code-from-CodeGarden-2010.aspx

i made same demo site(it works properly) like this on my umbraco ....but its not working....

i have created document types , templates , usercontrol , xslt & macro ....what else thing should i create or change to work in out.....

plz have a look at that demo site & help me plz....

<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?>
<!DOCTYPE xsl:stylesheet [
  <!ENTITY nbsp "&#x00A0;">
]>
<xsl:stylesheet
  version="1.0"
  xmlns:xsl="http://www.w3.org/1999/XSL/Transform"
  xmlns:msxml="urn:schemas-microsoft-com:xslt"
  xmlns:examine="urn:examine"
  xmlns:umbraco.library="urn:umbraco.library"
  xmlns:Exslt.ExsltCommon="urn:Exslt.ExsltCommon"
  xmlns:Exslt.ExsltDatesAndTimes="urn:Exslt.ExsltDatesAndTimes"
  xmlns:Exslt.ExsltMath="urn:Exslt.ExsltMath"
  xmlns:Exslt.ExsltRegularExpressions="urn:Exslt.ExsltRegularExpressions"
  xmlns:Exslt.ExsltStrings="urn:Exslt.ExsltStrings"
  xmlns:Exslt.ExsltSets="urn:Exslt.ExsltSets"
  exclude-result-prefixes="msxml examine umbraco.library Exslt.ExsltCommon Exslt.ExsltDatesAndTimes Exslt.ExsltMath Exslt.ExsltRegularExpressions Exslt.ExsltStrings Exslt.ExsltSets ">


  <xsl:output method="xml" omit-xml-declaration="yes"/>

  <xsl:param name="currentPage"/>

  <!-- Get the search term from the query string-->
  <xsl:variable name="searchTerm" select="umbraco.library:RequestQueryString('s')" />

  <xsl:template match="/">

    <!-- Check if there's a search term to search on-->
    <xsl:if test="string-length($searchTerm) > 0">

      
      <!-- Get the search results from examine -->
      <!--************************ THIS IS WHERE THE MAGIC HAPPENS *****************************-->
            
      <xsl:variable name="results" select="examine:Search($searchTerm)"/>
<!-- If i remove this then this xslt works ...but nothin will be searched as i will remove this -->
<!-- but if i keep this then i get the error Error parsing XSLT file: \xslt\SearchResults.xslt
 -->

      <!--************************ END OF MAGIC ************************************************-->
      
      
      <p>
        Search text:&nbsp;<b>
          <u>
            <xsl:value-of select="$searchTerm"/>
          </u>
        </b>&nbsp;&nbsp;<i>
          <b>
            <xsl:value-of select="count($results//node)"/>
          </b>&nbsp;result(s)
        </i>
      </p>
    </xsl:if>
  </xsl:template>

</xsl:stylesheet>

Plz help me ....

I wanted to use an XSLT approach and this link helped me out: http://our.umbraco.org/wiki/reference/xslt/using-examine-in-xslt

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