I am testing Umbraco as a replacement of our commercial CMS we use in our projects for our customers.
So far, I like how Umbraco is designed and works as well as the integration with Visual Studio and MVC. But now we came to the point, where we wanted to add some search functionality to our demo site. And this seems to be a challenging process, because:
1.) We tested the ezSearch package - but with almost no documentation almost impossible to setup, also nothing found on Umbraco TV or YouTube.
2.) We tested the Full Text Search package - but the same like with ezSearch.
So my question is, if you - the community - knows or has tips for me how I can add search functionality to the latest version of Umbraco without having to code decades or having to search endlessly for documentation or tutorials to get it working?
When you insert the ezSeach macro into your template you can fill in a lot of parameters, if the should search in media or content or both. Then you need to add the field in a comma operated list, where your are using the aliases of the fields that you want to search for content.
So if you e.g has a field on your text page that has a alias of headingText and bodyText, then you should add them in to the field search fields.
I was able to get it working but a sad thing that there is no proper documentation with running samples this requires a LOT time to examine how all this works.
ezSearch is a 3rd party package meant for simple through moderately advanced scenario's, if what it does isn't enough for you then it's recommended to create some code, which might be easier than trying to configure ezSearch.
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Dear community,
I am testing Umbraco as a replacement of our commercial CMS we use in our projects for our customers.
So far, I like how Umbraco is designed and works as well as the integration with Visual Studio and MVC. But now we came to the point, where we wanted to add some search functionality to our demo site. And this seems to be a challenging process, because:
1.) We tested the ezSearch package - but with almost no documentation almost impossible to setup, also nothing found on Umbraco TV or YouTube.
2.) We tested the Full Text Search package - but the same like with ezSearch.
So my question is, if you - the community - knows or has tips for me how I can add search functionality to the latest version of Umbraco without having to code decades or having to search endlessly for documentation or tutorials to get it working?
Best regards, Marco
Hi Marco,
Have you seen this documentation for the ezSearch package.
https://our.umbraco.org/media/wiki/74421/635065665848673870_ezSearch-Documentation-v10.pdf
Hope this helps a bit.
/Dennis
Hey Dennis,
yes, of course - but this doesn't help since it is more a reference but not a walkthrough of how to setup all this in Umbraco.
I would expect a step by step tutorial what to to after installation how to setup the index, setup the HTML, include into the own HTML and so on.
But this is not in the document they provide.
Any help?
Hi Macro,
Have you seen the chapter number 2 about installation. To install the package into your Umbraco installation download the zip file from here https://our.umbraco.org/projects/website-utilities/ezsearch/
Then you need to install the package, by following this approach.
Hope this helps,
/Dennis
Hey Dennis,
yes, I got it and the package is successfully installed.
I integrated it into my sample page, but when searching for content, it shows no results. Where can I specify, what has to be indexed?
If it is under "Macros - ezSearch - Parameters" why doesn't it index my content by default?
Regards, Marco
Hi Marco,
When you insert the ezSeach macro into your template you can fill in a lot of parameters, if the should search in media or content or both. Then you need to add the field in a comma operated list, where your are using the aliases of the fields that you want to search for content.
So if you e.g has a field on your text page that has a alias of headingText and bodyText, then you should add them in to the field search fields.
Hope this helps,
/Dennis
Hey Dennis,
I was able to get it working but a sad thing that there is no proper documentation with running samples this requires a LOT time to examine how all this works.
I will now keep having a look at it.
Best regards, Marco
Just for future reference there's quite a bit of Examine documentation here: https://our.umbraco.org/Documentation/Reference/Searching/Examine/
ezSearch is a 3rd party package meant for simple through moderately advanced scenario's, if what it does isn't enough for you then it's recommended to create some code, which might be easier than trying to configure ezSearch.
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