Hi JLon,

In Umbraco project we have config folder, in this folder ExamineIndex.config file. There are you can change folder of index files.

More info:

https://our.umbraco.org/Documentation/Reference/Searching/Examine/full-configuration

Thanks, Alex

Be aware that recent versions of Umbraco keep a writelock open on the index for performance reasons.  This means that the index cannot be read by other processes unless you touch the web.config.

Kindly see http://issues.umbraco.org/issue/U4-6321 for an explanation.

Regards

Ver

Jlon,

You could expose the Umbraco examine index data via webapi and in that webapi some querying. Then your non umbraco site can make calls to webapi in site a and get any data you require.

Regards

Ismail

Hi Ismail,

Looking for the same thing too. Any idea how do you do that?

Thanks

Jeric,

See https://our.umbraco.org/documentation/Reference/WebApi/ then in your method you would add the querying code and take in some search parameters for the data you want.  I would suggest you send back your own poco type list of the data rather than ISearchResult.  

Regards

Ismail

Ismail,

Any sample codes? kind of confuse a little

Thanks

Read the first link i sent regarding how to create webapi https://our.umbraco.org/documentation/Reference/WebApi/  with umbraco then read examine docs see https://our.umbraco.org/Documentation/Reference/Searching/Examine/index which details how you query.  I have some code not included all of it but

Web api bit

        [HttpGet]
        public ApiSearchResponse SearchMaleTalent([FromUri] ModelSearch searchParams)
        {
            return SearchTalent(searchParams, Constants.MediaTypes.TalentMale);
        }

private ApiSearchResponse SearchTalent(ModelSearch searchParams, string talentGenderAlias)
        {
            var criteria = SearchHelper.GetSearchDictionary(searchParams.ToDictionary(), talentGenderAlias);

            SetPublicFilter(criteria);

            //try
            //{
            string generatedQuery;
            var talents = _boardService.SearchTalent(criteria, out generatedQuery);

            var searchResponse = new ApiSearchResponse();
            searchResponse.ResultCount = talents.Items.Count;
            searchResponse.Board = talents;
            searchResponse.GeneratedQuery = generatedQuery;
            searchResponse.Success = true;

            SanitizeSearchQuery(searchResponse);

            return searchResponse;
        }

The board service has some code that looks like

 var externalCriteria = _externalSearcher.CreateSearchCriteria(IndexTypes.Content);

            IBooleanOperation query = externalCriteria.OrderBy(Constants.DocTypesProperties.Talent.FirstName);

            if (searchFields.ContainsKey(Constants.Examine.NodeTypeAlias))
            {
                query = externalCriteria.NodeTypeAlias(fields[Constants.Examine.NodeTypeAlias]);
                fields.Remove(Constants.Examine.NodeTypeAlias); //dont want the nodetypealias twice in search query
            }

            ExamineHelper.BuildRangeQuery(query, fields);

            generatedQuery = externalCriteria.ToString(); //just here for debugging purposes

            var results = _externalSearcher.Search(query.Compile());

            return results;

Basically there are 2 pieces to this puzzle the first bit is the webapi, look at the docs and just create simple webapi that returns some mock list of objects. Next create your search class using examine see the docs and perform search and return results.  

Regards

Ismail

Thanks Ismail, will try it out

Cheers

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