I think you need to specify the index you want to search. By default there are 3 searchers configured by Umbraco (in examinesettings.config) . InternalSearcher, InternalMemberSearcher and ExternalSearcher. For searching on your site you will need to use the ExternalSearcher because this one only searches through published content.

You specify which searcher to use like this :

var searcher = ExamineManager.Instance.SearchProviderCollection["ExternalSearcher"]

Dave

Frans,

One other thing you do not need to use linq to specifically search on content so the line

searcher.Search(query).Where(r => r["__IndexType"]=="content").ToList();

Is not needed, you can do 

searcher.CreateSearchCriteria(IndexTypes.Content);

also in your searcher.Search(query)

that should be 

query.Compile()

If you stll get no results then after the search line can you do 

searchCriteria.ToString()

and post back here the generated lucene query that will give indication as to what is going on.

Regards

Ismail

Hi Ismail,

Is it not needed to specify a searcher to use  ?

Dave

Thanks for the reply's guys,

I've added Daves sugestion and included all the variables in this post.

@Ismail: If I change the code to your sugestion I get a error: Compiler Error Message: CS0103: The name 'IndexTypes' does not exist in the current context

@{
    string searchTerm = Request.QueryString["keywords"];
    if (String.IsNullOrWhiteSpace(searchTerm))
    {
        searchTerm = "";
    }

    var searcher = ExamineManager.Instance.SearchProviderCollection["ExternalSearcher"];
    var searchCriteria = searcher.CreateSearchCriteria();
    var query = searchCriteria.GroupedOr(new[] {"nodeName", "title", "subTitle", "contentgrid", "mainHeader", "contentgrid","metaTitle" }, searchTerm).Compile();
    var searchResults = searcher.Search(query).Where(r => r["__IndexType"] == "content").ToList();

}


<p>
    @searcher.ToString()<br/><br/>
    @searchCriteria.ToString()<br/><br/>
    @query.ToString()<br/><br/>
    @searchResults.ToString()<br/><br/>
</p>

• searcher: UmbracoExamine.UmbracoExamineSearcher

• searchCriteria: { SearchIndexType: , LuceneQuery: +(nodeName:ipsum title:ipsum subTitle:ipsum contentgrid:ipsum mainHeader:ipsum contentgrid:ipsum metaTitle:ipsum) }

• query: { SearchIndexType: , LuceneQuery: +(nodeName:ipsum title:ipsum subTitle:ipsum contentgrid:ipsum mainHeader:ipsum contentgrid:ipsum metaTitle:ipsum) }

• searchResults: System.Collections.Generic.List`1[Examine.SearchResult]

Thanks

Francs,

You need one of these usings

using Examine;

using Examine.LuceneEngine.SearchCriteria;

using Examine.Providers;

using Examine.SearchCriteria;

using UmbracoExamine;

not sure which ;-} 

I can see the generated lucene query, can you download luke (https://code.google.com/p/luke/downloads/list need 3.5.0 you will also need to have java installed) and open the index with that and then run the generated query see if that works.

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