Hi All,

I am in the midst of creating a Multi-input examine search which will take from 1 to 4 inputs, Generate a query and then return the results to the user.

Currently I have setup the view, controller and model for this but I am having issues on rendering out the results for the user. Originally I did this through taking the RenderModel and storing it as "searchModel" and then performing a return CurrentTemplate(searchModel); As mentioned by Sebastiaan though - This is bad practice.

I have pasted my code below if anyone could help :)

P.S (Excuse the class names on the view! Re-using what we had styled for our Umbraco forms - form)

View:

 @using (Html.BeginUmbracoForm("AdvancedSearch", "Search"))
                {
                    <div class="contourField textarea">
                        <label>Product Code</label>
                        <input class="search" type="text" placeholder="Product Code..." name="ProductCode" />
                    </div>

                    <div class="contourField textarea">
                        <label>Description</label>
                        <input class="search" type="text" placeholder="Description..." name="Description" />
                    </div>

                    <div class="contourField textarea">
                        <label>Details</label>
                        <input class="search" type="text" placeholder="Details..." name="Details" />
                    </div>

                    <div class="contourField textarea">
                        <label>Specification</label>
                        <input class="search" type="text" placeholder="Specification..." name="Specification" />
                    </div>
                    <input type="hidden" name="term" />
                    <div class="contourField">
                        <input class="searchbutton" type="submit" value="AdvancedSearch" />
                    </div>
                }  

Controller:

public ActionResult AdvancedSearch(string productCode, string description, string details, string specification)
    {

        var sc = ExamineManager.Instance.SearchProviderCollection["CategoriesSearcher"].CreateSearchCriteria();
        IBooleanOperation query = null;
        if (!string.IsNullOrEmpty(productCode))
        {
            query = sc.Field("productCode", productCode.Escape());
        }
        if (!string.IsNullOrEmpty(description))
        {
            query = query == null
                ? sc.Field("description", description.Escape())
                : query.Or().Field("description", description.Escape());
        }
        if (!string.IsNullOrEmpty(details))
        {
            query = query == null
                ? sc.Field("details", details.Escape())
                : query.Or().Field("details", details.Escape());
        }
        if (!string.IsNullOrEmpty(specification))
        {
            query = query == null
                ? sc.Field("specification", specification.Escape())
                : query.Or().Field("specification", specification.Escape());
        }
        if (query != null)
        {
            var results = ExamineManager.Instance.SearchProviderCollection["CategoriesSearcher"].Search(query.Compile());
        }

        //return CurrentTemplate(searchModel);
    }

Model:

 public partial class Search
{
    public Search(IPublishedContent content)
        : base(content)
    {
        SearchResults = new List<IPublishedContent>();
    }

    #region Non DocType Properties

    public string Term { get; set; }


    public IEnumerable<IPublishedContent> SearchResults { get; set; }

    public Pager Pager { get; set; }

    #endregion
}