It crawls a rendered version of the page, so it works with the grid in that it only sees the rendered grid content on the page. I am using it for a project with the grid and it works fine. (7.4.3)

Really? I know the crawling of the rendered part, but i havent been able to get it working for 7.4+ ever? strange!

Just to make sure... Do you get the correct preview text displayed in the results or just the node name?

What database are you using? CE or MSSQL?

Strange... The database shouldn't matter, it just uses the Examine to discover the nodes then it renders the nodes. They have to be published.

I am just going to rattle off some thoughts. Bare with me.

I assume you configured Full Text Search to look at an accessible domain? Do you have errors in the log?

What is the name of the field you are displaying for the preview?

If you go into the Backoffice and look at the Examine Management tool, do you see the fulltextindexer and searcher?

Can you run the indexer? (Should take a while on a even a smaller site)

If you do a search against the searcher, do you see any results and what index fields are filled?

I actually have a live test site for the same reason, http://743.pssst.dk/fullsearch/?Search=umbraco

    <umbraco:Macro queryType="MultiRelevance" titleProperties="" bodyProperties="content" summaryProperties="content" rootNodes="" contextHighlighting="1" summaryLength="" pageLength="" fuzzyness="" useWildcards="0" Alias="FullTextSearch" runat="server"></umbraco:Macro>

Awesome :-)

Can you check your logs? Looks like the fulltext index field (FullTextSearch by default) isn't populated. Maybe an error with the domain.

For simplicity, could you change the config to just use the httpurl?

Here is mine:

  <HttpUrl>http://mydomain.com</HttpUrl>;
  <!-- Domain name of your site e.g. www.yoursite.com -->
  <HttpHost></HttpHost>
  <!-- Indexing request timout in seconds -->

(This works internally too)

Please warn me not to visit your URL. It redirects to all sorts of evil :)

all i get in the umbraco log concerming examine is

2016-06-07 15:37:01,392 [P50112/D5/T1] INFO  Umbraco.Web.Search.ExamineEvents - Initializing Examine and binding to business logic events
2016-06-07 15:37:01,455 [P50112/D5/T1] INFO  Umbraco.Web.Search.ExamineEvents - Adding examine event handlers for index providers: 4

And thanks for trying to find a way through this. I had completely written it off, so if we can get it working i will owe you big time :)

Are you sure you're running 7.4.3?

Ohh, woops, that is my local url. I changed it to something more generic.

It wouldn't be an Examine error. Maybe something that looks like:

Governor.Umbraco.FullTextSearch.Utilities.Library - HTTP error in FullTextSearch retrieval.

The fact that the Full Text index is not empty tells me that index itself isn't failing, just the Full Text scrape part.

Hmmm, i might have found something pointing to it not working with CE database...

     2016-05-13 14:15:58,966 [P15372/D29/T45] ERROR umbraco.cms.businesslogic.packager.PackageAction - Error loading package action 'FullTextSearch_InstallExecuteNonQuery' for package Full Text Search
System.Exception: Database table could not be created. Install cannot proceed. Check database permissions

but then again, i have another site running MSSQl and 4.7.0, and it doesnt work there either...

Yeah I am

Here is an example of a search result from our client's new site.

And the page.

And my app settings.

  <appSettings>
    <add key="umbracoConfigurationStatus" value="7.4.3" />
    <add key="umbracoReservedUrls" value="~/config/splashes/booting.aspx,~/install/default.aspx,~/config/splashes/noNodes.aspx,~/VSEnterpriseHelper.axd" />
    <add key="umbracoReservedPaths" value="~/umbraco,~/install/,~/bundles/" />

Looks like this is the table it adds if you want to try adding it manually. I didn't realize it added a table.

USE [**yourdatabase**]
GO

/****** Object:  Table [dbo].[fullTextCache]    Script Date: 6/7/2016 9:04:19 AM ******/
SET ANSI_NULLS ON
GO

SET QUOTED_IDENTIFIER ON
GO

CREATE TABLE [dbo].[fullTextCache](
    [Id] [bigint] IDENTITY(1,1) NOT NULL,
    [nodeId] [int] NOT NULL,
    [fullHTML] [ntext] NULL,
 CONSTRAINT [PK_fullTextCache] PRIMARY KEY CLUSTERED 
(
    [Id] ASC
)WITH (PAD_INDEX = OFF, STATISTICS_NORECOMPUTE = OFF, IGNORE_DUP_KEY = OFF, ALLOW_ROW_LOCKS = ON, ALLOW_PAGE_LOCKS = ON) ON [PRIMARY]
) ON [PRIMARY] TEXTIMAGE_ON [PRIMARY]

GO

Hmmm going in circles. I have now installed on a MSSQL, and the tables is created without errors, but now the index is populated with raw json...

Looks like that is just picking up your bodyText (grid editor) property, not the fulltextsearch field. Can you see if there are more errors in your log?

Nope, no errors besides

2016-06-07 16:25:31,114 [P21660/D3/T7] ERROR UmbracoExamine.DataServices.UmbracoLogService - Provider=InternalMemberIndexer, NodeId=-1
System.Exception: Cannot index queue items, the index doesn't exist!,, IndexSet: InternalMemberIndexSet
2016-06-07 16:25:31,114 [P21660/D3/T7] ERROR UmbracoExamine.DataServices.UmbracoLogService - Provider=InternalIndexer, NodeId=-1
System.Exception: Cannot index queue items, the index doesn't exist!,, IndexSet: InternalIndexSet
2016-06-07 16:25:31,114 [P21660/D3/T7] ERROR UmbracoExamine.DataServices.UmbracoLogService - Provider=ExternalIndexer, NodeId=-1
System.Exception: Cannot index queue items, the index doesn't exist!,, IndexSet: ExternalIndexSet

which i guess are during the install of umbraco and before the installation of fulltextsearch...

Can you go into Examine Management and force a run of the fulltext index? There has to be some errors if those values aren't being filled out.

No errors after reindexing.

I got to thinking though... Is your site vanilla 7.4 og has it been upgraded from 7.1 /7.2?

It might have started at 7.3.8.

It was started in April.

Did you change your fulltext config just use httpurl?

WUUUUHUUUUUU!!!!! Success!!!

1. Was it enabled. NO! (facepalm).
2. enabling turned up errors (System.UriFormatException: Invalid URI: The hostname could not be parsed.)
3. Enabled it and put in the exact url including /default.aspx

And it works. THANKS A LOT for sticking with me!

Are you going to Codegarden?

No problem!!!

Yep! Flying in from the US.

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