Hi Tom

Do you mean the search in the backoffice ?

or the search on the frontend of your site ?

Anyway there should be included in the package an example of using the search on the front end of your site, in the file AzureSearch.cshtml

(and in the read.me here; https://github.com/darrenferguson/UmbracoAzureSearch)

But the gist of it is you need to construct an instance of the 'AzureSearchClient' class and use the methods off of this to query your index..

eg

@inherits Umbraco.Web.Mvc.UmbracoTemplatePage
@using Moriyama.AzureSearch.Umbraco.Application
@using Moriyama.AzureSearch.Umbraco.Application.Interfaces

@{
//get your search client
 var azureSearchClient = AzureSearchContext.Instance.SearchClient;
// read your search term from the querystring
var searchTerm = Request["search"];
var hasSearchResults = false;
if (!string.IsNullOrEmpty(searchTerm)){

//the search will return a SearchResult Class containing 'content' and 'facets'

//but we're doing a basic 'search term' search here:
ISearchResult searchResults  = azureSearchClient .Term(searchTerm).Results(); 
hasSearchResults = searchResults.Content.Any();
}}

@if(hasSearchResults){

<h1>Search Results</h1>
<p>Count: searchResults.Count</p>

<ul>
@foreach (var searchResult in searchResults.Content){
//each result is represented by a SearchContent class, which has properties for Id, Url, Path (IsContent,IsMedia etc) and a dictionary of your custom properties.

<li>
<a href="@searchResult.Url">@searchResult.Id @searchResult.Name</a>
</li>
}
</ul>
}

You can chain up the search criteria on the search client, before you call .Results()

for example, from a project listing news articles by category:

   var documentTypesFilter = catTagId > 0 ? new[] { "NewsArticle", "VideoArticle", "PhotoStoryArticle", "printArticle" } : new[] { "NewsArticle", "VideoArticle", "PhotoStoryArticle"};

            var client = new AzureSearchClient(_umbracoApplicationPath);
            var query = client
                .Content()
                .DocumentTypes(documentTypesFilter)
                .Filter("Published", true);
            // only if a category is pickedwe need to filter on catId
            if (catTagId > 0)
            {
                query = query.Contains("allTags", catTagId.ToString());
            }
                query = query.PageSize(articlesPerPage)
                .OrderBy("articleDate desc");              

            var newsArticlesResult = query.Results(page);

I have a list of documentTypes that are the news article ones, and I build a 'content query' (.Content()) and chain on the filter by DocumentTypes, then I'm only interested in ones that are published, as this is the front end of my site, so I use .Filter and then I might be filtering by news article category tag - and so I can 'chain on again' (because I haven't called .results() yet, a Contains clause to see if an article has been tagged with that category and then I can set the number of articles to return per page via the PageSize, (the count property will still include the total number matched) , and finally tag on an OrderBy clause so I get the latest articles first.

Does that help? let us know where you are coming unstuck?

regards

Marc

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