Scott,

That looks fine to me. Can you write out the generated lucene query and then test that query on both indexes.

Regards

Ismail

Ismail - thanks for the reply. May have found the problem in that my query was returning nothing as the fieldnames were different . Once i tidy up my code i will post a code snippet here for others.

Using your code from the hour course from last years UmbracoFestival - cheers

Using Umbraco 7.5.1.1. Did something recently change in Examine when it comes to multi indexing? I currently have the following setup in my ExaminSettings.config ...

<!--Searcher for Multiple Indexes-->
  <add name="MultiIndexSearcher" type="Examine.LuceneEngine.Providers.MultiIndexSearcher, Examine" indexSets="MediaIndexSet,AlphaIndexSet" enableLeadingWildcards="true" />

But no matter what, I always get 0 results displayed when using the search tool.

Do you mean in the Examine Management in Developer section?

"..But the moment I use MultiIndexSearcher, I get 0 results."

If so this doesn't work for MultiIndexSearcher

Just sharing code. I finally got something reeeaal basic to work

@inherits Umbraco.Web.Mvc.UmbracoTemplatePage
@using System.Web.Mvc.Html
@using Umbraco.Web
@using UmbracoExamine
@using Examine.SearchCriteria;
@using Examine.LuceneEngine.SearchCriteria;
@using Examine.LuceneEngine;
@using Examine.LuceneEngine.Providers;
@{
    Layout = "alpha.cshtml";
    string term = Request["Query"];
}
<strong>Search for:</strong> @term<br />
 <ul>
    @{

        //container for the searcher
        Examine.Providers.BaseSearchProvider searcher = null;

        //container for the results
        ISearchResults searchResults;

        //my desired searcher
        searcher = ExamineManager.Instance.SearchProviderCollection["MultiIndexSearcher"];

        if (term == null)
        {
            <p>no query set yet</p>
        }
        else
        {

            //create search criteria
            var searchCriteria = searcher.CreateSearchCriteria(BooleanOperation.Or);

            //the criteria our search term as a raw query
            var query = searchCriteria.RawQuery(term);

            //action a search based on our query
            searchResults = searcher.Search(query);

            foreach (var searchResult in searchResults)
            {
                if (searchResult.Fields["nodeTypeAlias"].ToString().ToLower() == "file")
                {
                    //we have found a physical file in the media folder structure
                    //note that this is the line where we can capitalise on that Media File custom property we created - friendlyFileName
                    var media = Umbraco.Media(searchResult.Id);
                    <li>
                        <a href="@media.Url" target="_blank">@searchResult.Fields["friendlyName"]</a>
                    </li>
                }
                else
                {
                    //we are a content type other than a file
                    <li>
                        <a href="@Umbraco.NiceUrl(searchResult.Id)">@searchResult.Fields["nodeName"]</a>
                    </li>
                }
            }

        }
    }
</ul>

This works for me and I feel this is a good starting point for me to grow from. I need more references to take this to the next level.

Thanks for helping me think / walk through this!

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