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  • Frans de Jong 548 posts 1840 karma points MVP 4x c-trib
    Jan 12, 2016 @ 09:01
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    Short introduction to Examine site search

    Hi all,

    I'm using Umbraco since version 7.0.1. One thing that has always been a mystery is the option to build a site search.

    Originally I only was a Front-End developer so the site-search is very hard to comprehend for me.

    I want to get the back-end developer to look in to setting up a decent site-search but I'm lacking the info what elements Umbraco uses for this.

    Can somebody help me by telling me what we need and how those parts work together?

    I know Examine is used for indexing but and I can get a simple site-search to work (only searching the name of the content nodes) but the problem begins when I want to search the Grid and want to display a google like summary.

    I don't need a turn key solution (although that would be great :P ), but I need to know the tools we need to build a search solution our self.

    Thanks!

    Frans

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  • Dennis Aaen 4500 posts 18255 karma points admin hq c-trib
    Jan 12, 2016 @ 10:12
    Dennis Aaen
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    Hi Frans,

    If you are looking for a site search functionality then I would recommend you to take a look at the following package.

    EzSearch - https://our.umbraco.org/projects/website-utilities/ezsearch/ Full Text Search - https://our.umbraco.org/projects/website-utilities/full-text-search

    If you want to know more about Examine please have a look at this documentation https://our.umbraco.org/documentation/Reference/Searching/Examine/

    Or perhaps this article http://24days.in/umbraco/2013/getting-started-with-examine/ from the advent calendar from 2013 can help you too.

    Hope this helps,

    /Dennis

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  • Frans de Jong 548 posts 1840 karma points MVP 4x c-trib
    Jan 12, 2016 @ 10:19
    Frans de Jong
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    Hi Dennis,

    Thanks for your reply. Do you have experiance with those packages? Are they updated on a regular base? I don't want to get stuck on 7.3.5 because otherwise my search function will break...

    Frans

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  • Dennis Aaen 4500 posts 18255 karma points admin hq c-trib
    Jan 12, 2016 @ 10:27
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    Hi Frans,

    I have used the EzSearch package on a live project, but this was a Umbraco 7.2.1, and it works very fine. http://www.aller-aqua.com

    You could try install the package on your 7.3.1 and then just remember to take a backup, so you can do a rollback if some did not work as expected.

    /Dennis

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  • Frans de Jong 548 posts 1840 karma points MVP 4x c-trib
    Jan 13, 2016 @ 09:22
    Frans de Jong
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    Thanks. I'm gonna try them both and see what happens.

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