Hi Andrew

You can pass the name of the searcher into the constructor of Index. That'll allow you to query your custom index :)

Thanks Craig

Hi. I know this is an old question, but a custom Searcher doesn't seem to work in my case.

I am in progress of porting a lot of content from a custom CMS to Umbraco. The site is multilingual.

I have a custom indexer, searcher, indexSet per language. Everything is indexed trough the backoffice. When I do a regular Lucene search, I get the needed results, but not with LINQ To Examine.

What works:

                var searchProvider = "MySearchSearcher" + language;
            var searcher = ExamineManager.Instance.SearchProviderCollection[searchProvider];
            var sc = searcher.CreateSearchCriteria();

            var query = sc.NodeTypeAlias("project");
            var results = searcher.Search(query.Compile());

What doesn't work:

var searchProvider = "MySearchSearcher" + language;

            var results = new Index<Project>(searchProvider).ToList();

Everything seems to be in order with my model. When I do not enter a searcherName, I do get results.

I can not use the ExternalSearcher, because every content node has a LegacyId (Id from the old CMS). The same legacyId exists on every language. I have to search for the content node of a certain DocType that matches the legacyId and then set relations between them. The relations are language dependent.

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