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Lucene Spatial Search

Forum / Lucene Spatial Search
Created: March 20, 2018 - Last update: March 20, 2018
I'm trying to setup spatial search, to get the nearest locations from another location, but I am having trouble getting out results. The index looks fine and has data [http://prntscr.com/itrup4][1] The search itself looks like this var clientLatitude = 56.3354034; var cli…
Erratic results with Lucene Spatial

Forum / Erratic results with Lucene Spatial
Created: May 23, 2017 - Last update: May 30, 2017
I have inherited two sites from two different clients and both seem to have the same issue. They implement a spacial search based on this article: https://www.leapinggorilla.com/Blog/Read/1010/spatial-search-in-lucenenet---worked-example The issue is that results are erratic. One result appears f…
Examine/Lucene Spatial Search Error

Forum / Examine/Lucene Spatial Search Error
Created: November 24, 2021 - Last update: November 24, 2021
Hello, We are currently experiencing intermittent issues when using Examine for searches in combination with the Lucene.Net.Spatial library. The problem seems to be exacerbated by the use of load-balanced Azure app services, however it has been known to occur on a local development machine. We hav…
Auto index Examine fields from custom data source, using Lucene spatial search

Forum / Auto index Examine fields from custom data source, using Lucene spatial search
Created: November 12, 2017 - Last update: July 26, 2018
Hi, I'm implementing a 'nearest neighbour' facility using Lucene spatial search. I have a custom database table containing properties (as in, physical properties like hotels rather than Umbraco properties) with name, description, latitude and longitude fields which need to be injected into the Exa…
Spatial Datatypes, Petapoco and umbraco.

Forum / Spatial Datatypes, Petapoco and umbraco.
Created: April 07, 2015 - Last update: April 08, 2015
Hey guys, This may be going outside of the scope for many users however it might be a challange for someone to work out if this is at all possible. So I thought Id throw it up and see what I get back from the community. I have been sold on using petapoco as an ORM for Umbraco, MVC solution as i…
Creating a Custom Examine Index that allows Spatial searching

Forum / Creating a Custom Examine Index that allows Spatial searching
Created: March 14, 2019 - Last update: May 17, 2019
Hi, Has anyone tried to create a custom Examine index in Umbraco 8 that would allow Spatial searching on longitude and latitude? I've managed to create my own custom Examine index using the below: https://our.umbraco.com/forum/umbraco-8/95915-umbraco-8-examine-indexes But I'm not sure how to mak…
Lucene with spatial.net

Forum / Lucene with spatial.net
Created: August 17, 2011 - Last update: January 26, 2017
Thanks to Ismail's answer on StackOverflow regarding searching Lucene with spatial queries (Geosearching). However I'm brand new to Lucene, so I've ordered Lucene in Action in order to learn more about the underlying technology and how it works. I've rigged up a simple search, using the wa…
Spatial type properties

Forum / Spatial type properties
Created: April 14, 2013 - Last update: April 15, 2013
Hi all I have a requirement to store spatial data on an Umbraco website and was wondering what was available for this, although I'm sure it's trivial to support the storing of the data my main concern was queries against spatial data (i.e. items within a certain distance of each other). At the momen…
Advanced Search (Lucene / Examine)

Forum / Advanced Search (Lucene / Examine)
Created: August 28, 2018 - Last update: August 29, 2018
Hello Our! I have a question regarding site search and umbraco. Usually we use the "vanilla" built in index and examine, but we would like to expand search functionality with synonyms and dictionary lookup (spelling errors), needs to be working on multiple languages. Where would I start looking? A…
Storing Spatial data (In MS SQL Server 2008)

Forum / Storing Spatial data (In MS SQL Server 2008)
Created: August 01, 2011 - Last update: August 08, 2011
I'm new to Umbraco, so I've spent the past few working days watching pretty much every video tutorial on the website to get myself up to speed. Umbraco looks to be a very close fit for my needs, however I need to store spatial data. This data will then be plotted on a map control (Google or Bing) bu…
Lucene again

Forum / Lucene again
Created: July 27, 2020 - Last update: August 01, 2020
Searching from the backoffice as well as from the code (if Umbraco is runnig from Visual Studio) crashes with the following error: Method not found: 'Void Lucene.Net.Search.Query.ExtractTerms(System.Collections.Generic.ISet`1)'. Exception Details System.MissingMethodException: Meth…
Lucene search

Forum / Lucene search
Created: May 31, 2017 - Last update: June 01, 2017
Hello, I am using lucene search and I am having trouble to find values between : 100 to 1000 inclusive or 0 to 1500 inclusive. When searching between 100 to 900 it works fine. Can someone please help me find a solution. Thanks in advance. kusumKusum, See https://lingpipe-blog.com/2012/07/24…
remove lucene

Forum / remove lucene
Created: April 14, 2010 - Last update: April 14, 2010
Hello, I know this was been discussed before, but I cannot find anything. As far as I remember, to disable lucene all i had to do was to delete the dll. Well, I did that but now I cannot empty the recycle bin on 4.0.3. The error from /umbraco/webservices/trashcan.asmx/EmptyTrashcan is "Message":"Co…
Lucene Version

Forum / Lucene Version
Created: October 20, 2015 - Last update: October 20, 2015
Hello, Does anyone know what the version number of Lucene is in the latest version of Umbraco (7.3). I'm looking to use Bobo Browse to create a faceted search and I would like to use the latest version. Thanks PaulThanks for confirming. Cheers PaulCurrently at version 2.9.4.1. Upgrading to 3.…
Lucene search

Forum / Lucene search
Created: June 09, 2017 - Last update: June 21, 2017
Hi, I am having some issues with Lucene. I have a site-wide search but for some reason the search is not including the blog node component of my site. Any ideas would be greatly appreciated. :) Additional info: --search provides results for entire site (including various child nodes) --node stru…
Lucene issues?

Forum / Lucene issues?
Created: August 07, 2013 - Last update: October 16, 2013
I appear to have a screwed Lucene installation after uploading an upgraded site to it's live server. The upgrade was from V6.1.1 to V6.1.3. There are two issues:- 1. A particular page give a "Read past EOF" error. The Stack Trace gives: [IOException: read past EOF] Lucene.Net.Index.FindSegmen…
Lucene .Net and PDF

Forum / Lucene .Net and PDF
Created: October 21, 2009 - Last update: October 21, 2009
Hi There I've a strange issues when I enreaches Umbraco with the Lucene .Net freetext search. Some PDF Files are not found and some are. I've checked that the PDF contents is "text" and not binary. Have anyone an idea? I'm using Lucene 2.0 - the latest official release. And PDFBox 0.7 Best re…
Upgrade Lucene version

Forum / Upgrade Lucene version
Created: August 14, 2013 - Last update: August 14, 2013
Hey guys. Ive builded a console program just to test how i should use shingle in lucene 3.0.3.0, and it worked fine atm. But, now i have an issue when i want to integrate my code into Umbraco, because umbraco uses a older version of Lucene, which dosn't contain Shingle. So my question is for yo…
Upgrade examine / Lucene

Forum / Upgrade examine / Lucene
Created: October 08, 2013 - Last update: October 09, 2013
Hey Guys. Are there any way to upgrade the version of Lucene umbraco is using ? i would very much like to get some of the new functionality, such as shingle and spellchecker. Im not really using examine for searching, mainly lucene. So can i work around examine some how ? if i upgrade in…
Examine + Lucene and a custom Similarity

Forum / Examine + Lucene and a custom Similarity
Created: January 14, 2011 - Last update: January 21, 2011
I am trying to tweak some search scores on a very heavily modified Lucene index. I have written my override of Similarity but can't work out exactly how to implement it. Do I need to compile it into Lucene .net? Can I use a config to set it up or can I apply it via Examine when th…
Lucene Search on Japanese Text

Forum / Lucene Search on Japanese Text
Created: May 26, 2017 - Last update: May 26, 2017
Hello everyone, I currently have a site that is using FullTextSearch using the Lucene engine for indexing. So far, it works great in all of my US/UK sites. However, it doesn't seem to be working very well four my Japan site. When I try to search for Japanese text, I am met with zero results, even i…
Lucene picker syntax question

Created: May 13, 2016 - Last update: May 14, 2016
Hi folks, I'm using a Lucene picker to select items of a specific document type. Using Lucene instead of XPath so that I can select from unpublished nodes as well as those in the publish cache. Just wondering if its possible with RawQuery to exclude the current node from the selection. IE. My Raw…
nuPicker - Lucene Dropdown Picker

Install Statistics / Developer tools / Packages / Our
Created: July 11, 2014 - Last update: July 11, 2014
I am needing to render a dropdownlist based on the data that appears in a Lucene Dropdown Picker on the front-end of my site. How do I go about doing this as retrieving the PreValues for the data type only display the configuration settings and not the data itself.
Lucene Search in 4.0 ?

Forum / Lucene Search in 4.0 ?
Created: January 29, 2009 - Last update: July 14, 2009
So I have been fighting the good fight and failing at trying to get lucene search working on 4.0.. Does anyone have a walk through or an updated package that works with 4.0s indexing? Thus far I have tried the Umbraco Utilities package but its based on Lucene 1.9.x and Ive tried porting umbracoe…
"Error deleting Lucene Index"

Forum / "Error deleting Lucene Index"
Created: October 13, 2011 - Last update: October 13, 2011
Hi, What does this error mean? It occurs sometimes when deleting / adding or updating an umbracoNode via code. "[UmbracoExamine] Error deleting Lucene index,Lock obtain timed out: NativeFSLock@C:\websites\xxx (umbraco)\wwwroot\App_Data\ExamineIndexes\Internal\Index\write.lock" Thanks in advance. grt…
Lucene Searching in Umbraco 11

Forum / Lucene Searching in Umbraco 11
Created: April 10, 2023 - Last update: April 10, 2023
Hello... Is this Possible to Perform Lucene search in umbraco 11 ? Please provide Any documentation for it. Thank you!I Implemented searching using Examine search but now i want that if customer write any whitespace, case insensitive and make any spelling mistakes then also suggest the result its…
Examine Lucene Query not working

Forum / Examine Lucene Query not working
Created: March 18, 2016 - Last update: March 21, 2016
I have a problem with handing my lucene query to umbraco. This is the query: +updateDate:{2016-03-30T00:00:00 TO 9999-12-31T23:59:59} I use this code to hand it over: ISearchCriteria sc = Searcher.CreateSearchCriteria(); var searchResults = Searcher.Search(sc.RawQuery(queryString));…
Lucene Search in Umbraco Razor

Forum / Lucene Search in Umbraco Razor
Created: October 13, 2015 - Last update: October 15, 2015
Hi, I am working in Umbraco 7.2.6 version. I have a search functionality in our site. Search feature is not working properly using "Lucene" search. When I check for "Employee", I am getting results and when I tried "employee", I am not getting any result. Seems it is case sensitive. Tried the comm…
Lucene query syntax

Forum / Lucene query syntax
Created: May 11, 2009 - Last update: May 11, 2009
Hi ,I am using lucene search engine in my applicaiton.I am facing trouble to search a particular word like "AWT-T" . I want only match data with this particular word "AWT-T" should be shown. But right now all the data matching with AWT is also showing. Please help me. No Drobar,It's not showing…
Lucene Search for Multiple Servers

Forum / Lucene Search for Multiple Servers
Created: July 18, 2019 - Last update: July 18, 2019
I have 2 servers: - CD Server is a public server which visitors can only access Front End and cannot access to "xxx.com/umbraco#" path - CM Server is for Content Creators access to Umbraco Backend to Enter the contents. I have an issue with Lucene, when Creators create any content and publish in…
Examine - lucene index problem

Forum / Examine - lucene index problem
Created: June 13, 2014 - Last update: June 13, 2014
Hello, I have a problem while lucene is indexing Umbraco. The following html is indexed wrong test<br />test2 will be testtest2 in the search results the <br /> is stripped. Is it possible to replace the <br /> with \n instead of stripping it. Best regards,…
Hyphens in Lucene search (Examine)

Forum / Hyphens in Lucene search (Examine)
Created: March 03, 2020 - Last update: March 04, 2020
Hi! I have a Lucene index named DownloadIndex, the index have the following fields: - articleNumber - downloadType - documentName Most of the items in the index have a articleNumber that contains a hyphen for example: x-way The problem is when using the StandardAnalyzer and we perform a search…
Lucene searchnot working properly

Forum / Lucene searchnot working properly
Created: June 16, 2011 - Last update: June 16, 2011
Hi, I am using lucene search for my website. It is indexing properly if i dont include that tables in my content..... but if i include tables then it is not searching properly ...what could be the reason ?...... also i want to search for special characters likr '/' '\' '$' , etc.... Also i want to…
Facets Examine / Lucene

Forum / Facets Examine / Lucene
Created: March 21, 2023 - Last update: March 21, 2023
Hi, I am trying to implement faceting using Examine / Lucene. I am using Umbraco 10 with Examine. I tried using the package from Callum: Examine.Facets. But it only supports .NET framework, not .NET 6. According to this post: https://github.com/callumbwhyte/examine-facets/issues/12 Lucene 4.8 shoul…
Lucene search query syntax

Forum / Lucene search query syntax
Created: October 09, 2009 - Last update: October 13, 2009
Hi The standard lucene search build a query like this: (contents:british*) AND (path:1052s* OR path:1053s*) This searches for the phrase "british" in nodes under 1052 and media nodes under 1053. I want to extend this to EXCLUDE certain nodes. The query i have generated looks like this but does not w…
Lucene indexes customizing

Forum / Lucene indexes customizing
Created: February 27, 2015 - Last update: March 23, 2015
Hi everybody, We are trying to add rows to our Lucene index from external database. We need relevant results from Umbraco nodes and external database string values. I'm thinking to create custom GatheringNodeData event and put data there. What can you suggest ? Is it possible ? Thanks, Alexan…
Search criteria for Lucene Examine

Forum / Search criteria for Lucene Examine
Created: November 25, 2011 - Last update: November 25, 2011
I'm trying to compose a reasonable search mechanism for a website which contains infomation stroed in text articles. I'm doing the search in umbraco lucene's examine. So, the let's say the fields I'm searching is "bodyText" and "titleText", What i've come up with for the filter is this: var filter…
umbraco search and Lucene

Forum / umbraco search and Lucene
Created: October 26, 2009 - Last update: March 09, 2010
I am a newbie and want to know how to install Lucene and make it work with umbraco , can anyone point me to a video tutorial (i have subcribed to umbraco.tv already) or would like to know a blog post which shows from first step to last step how i can use Lucene search with umbraco, i dont have any k…
Lucene Search Not Working on range

Forum / Lucene Search Not Working on range
Created: March 18, 2018 - Last update: March 18, 2018
Hi I have the following code and I cannot get it to work when searching with range. Can anyone help with this problem, my code is below. var searcher = Examine.ExamineManager.Instance.SearchProviderCollection["AuctionSearchSearcher"]; ISearchCriteria searchCriteria = sear…
Lucene throwing Merge exception

Forum / Lucene throwing Merge exception
Created: December 15, 2010 - Last update: January 17, 2011
Hi all, I'm currently developing a site for a friend in which I import a lot of nodes through a script. (which should run like every night or week when its live) So I tested the script, its working. But now, after running the script something goes wrong. I dont know what I did wrong, but I'm getting…
Lucene Index and case

Basic Website / Starter Kits / Packages / Our
Created: August 12, 2010 - Last update: August 13, 2010
Hi im having some issue with the lucene index. For example suppose i have a doctype called customer which in tern has a property called name, when i create a document and enter the name property as "John Doe" it is stored in the index as "john doe" how do i retain the correct casing ?You can use App…
Lucene unpublishing content?

Forum / Lucene unpublishing content?
Created: April 06, 2010 - Last update: April 06, 2010
I have an Umbraco 4.0 site on Windows Server 2003 R2 with SQL 2005. A few days ago a page disappeared from both the website and the CMS as though it's been deleted, but so far as I can tell it's not through any user/admin action. The facts surrounding the disappearing page are: The page does not ap…
Lucene search and special characters

Forum / Lucene search and special characters
Created: March 19, 2009 - Last update: June 24, 2009
I have implemented umbSearch and it seems I have a problem indexing / searching for special characters such as æ, ø and å. Any ideas how I can trick Lucene to index and search for these characters? Kind regards DennisDennis, I am having a similary issue and I think default raw encoding in ti…
Examine/Lucene & Archetype

Forum / Examine/Lucene & Archetype
Created: June 24, 2015 - Last update: October 05, 2017
Hi All, I have a site with Examine/Lucene searching and it works as expected on normal document types, but it fails to find any content which is nested in Archetype. This makes sense to me as there is no way for the indexer to "know" what is in the nested properties, but it there a way to instruct…
Custom Lucene query

Forum / Custom Lucene query
Created: August 08, 2018 - Last update: August 09, 2018
Hi, I'm trying to set up phrase search with Lucene. I'm getting nice results when searching the "nodeTitle" field. var luceneString = "nodeTitle:" + searchTerm; But how should I add more fields to search upon? var luceneString = "nodeTitle: field2: field3:" + searchTerm; Best regards Da…
Lucene Range search disfunctional

Forum / Lucene Range search disfunctional
Created: July 20, 2017 - Last update: July 20, 2017
Hello, I'm using Umbraco v7.2 for a site, and have run into a highly entertaining issue trying to search for things using the External Searcher by a date of ranges. If I perform a Lucene search using the examine management search tools in the backoffice, I **get results** using this query: {…
Lucene boost by 0

Forum / Lucene boost by 0
Created: May 20, 2014 - Last update: May 20, 2014
Hello fellow searchers. Im building a search functionality, where i'd like to search on different types (nodeTypeAlias), but when getting a result on this, include that the score has been calculated, which means document at the very start has different scores, because my nodeTypeAlias's has differen…
Lucene search problem

Forum / Lucene search problem
Created: January 06, 2009 - Last update: January 06, 2009
I have had Lucene search working on my site for a while but it's stopped returning results with the error: ERROR: System error. And sometimes: System.IO.FileNotFoundException: Could not find file 'C:\Sites\britishlegion.org.uk\data\umbSearch\segments'. The index itself builds fine but as s…
Lucene Examine Chinese Website

Forum / Lucene Examine Chinese Website
Created: September 07, 2015 - Last update: September 09, 2015
Hi @dawoe21 & @Yan Xuekai @ismailmayat and fellow Umbraco Users, I am using Umbraco 7.2.8, building a chinese website. I am currently trying to implement a search function for the website using Lucene - examine. I saw this post on how to go about using examine on a Chinese site [here][1] and was…
Examine / Lucene Special Characters

Forum / Examine / Lucene Special Characters
Created: March 21, 2014 - Last update: March 21, 2014
Hello! I've build a search functionality, but yesterday i came across a some bad behavoir when when using special characters. I searched the web, and found that the QueryParser could escape the queries for me, but its not working as expected. I use a combo of Examine and Lucene, but at the end…
Lucene Index not working on 4.5.2

Forum / Lucene Index not working on 4.5.2
Created: February 06, 2011 - Last update: February 09, 2011
I have umbraco 4.5.2. project. Lucene indext not genrating any indexing file under ExamineIndexes/Internal/Index/ folder. I tried deleting this folder and published one node, its creating ExamineIndexes/Internal/Index/ folder with segments.gen and segments_1 files in it but there is no indexing file…
Lucene search for Umbraco 4

Forum / Lucene search for Umbraco 4
Created: September 29, 2009 - Last update: October 01, 2009
Hello All, Is there a lucene search package for umbraco 4 that works like the original umbSearch in the umbraco extensions? I have tried the umbraco search 2 package which is suppose to be v.2 of the umbSearch, however it is not the same. It uses a .net User control instead of a plain ma…
Lucene query and Umbraco.tags fields

Forum / Lucene query and Umbraco.tags fields
Created: January 13, 2019 - Last update: January 18, 2019
Hello all, I'm experimenting with UmbracoExamine engine and Lucene searches. So far I'm quite impressed with the flexibility and performance. I'm having a bit of an issue dealing with Umbraco.tags fields. I have a use case where I need to search for Unpublished documents with a specific tag valu…
There is no Lucene index in the folder:...

Forum / There is no Lucene index in the folder:...
Created: February 22, 2012 - Last update: October 07, 2014
I've created a copy of an Umbraco 4.7.1 site on another server, and everything is working correctly except a few razor scripts which give the following error: There is no Lucene index in the folder: C:\inetpub\wwwroot\SiteName\App_Data\TEMP\ExamineIndexes\Internal\Index to create an IndexSearcher on…
Lucene Index Issues

Forum / Lucene Index Issues
Created: February 28, 2013 - Last update: February 28, 2013
Hello: On several occassions now I have attempted to migrate a site from one environment to another (e.g. development to staging) only to find the razor files throw errors due to Lucene indexes not being found. I have seen many posts on this issue but none of the suggested solutions work. I've…
Disable Lucene Examine

Forum / Disable Lucene Examine
Created: June 07, 2011 - Last update: June 23, 2022
Hi, Does anybody know how to turn off the Lucene Examine indexing job? We don't need to use the search function in the backend. Thanks.Hi Shannon Deminick / Patrick, We are using umbraco version 6.2.5 Some time we are getting below error ,How to resolve this one? An unhandled exception occurred …
Lucene search in umbraco website...

Forum / Lucene search in umbraco website...
Created: May 30, 2011 - Last update: October 07, 2012
Hi, I want to implement the lucene search in my website but i dont know how to implement it...can anybody help me in that ..... I wanted to use an XSLT approach and this link helped me out: http://our.umbraco.org/wiki/reference/xslt/using-examine-in-xsltHi, I found one demo website from here.......h…
Fuzzy Search - Examine Lucene

Forum / Fuzzy Search - Examine Lucene
Created: February 17, 2017 - Last update: October 17, 2019
I have been trying to get my search box to allow for Fuzzy search but I think I must be missing something somewhere. I've been following the tutorial from codeshare.co.uk on [advanced searches][1] and the search works as expected but now I am trying to extend this. I thought it would be as simple…
RenderMacro for a Lucene Index

Forum / RenderMacro for a Lucene Index
Created: January 18, 2014 - Last update: January 19, 2014
In short, I've tapped into the GatheringNodeData event on a Lucene indexer to massage the contents of the index. I have that all working but I can't seem to successfully render macros inside my content strings. Here's my helper method: public static string GetContent(string content, int p…
Lucene search indexing

Forum / Lucene search indexing
Created: July 14, 2011 - Last update: July 15, 2011
Hello, I have my website in 2 languages .... one id english & other is danish.... I have created both inside the Content like this.... Content >>English >>Danish I have created one usercontrol for search in english site .... which searches the co…
Lucene Search for multilingual site

Forum / Lucene Search for multilingual site
Created: August 22, 2011 - Last update: August 10, 2012
Hello, I have my website in two lenguages i.e English & danish Like this.... EN >page1 >page2 >page3 DN >Page1 >Page2 >Page3 both are inside the same domain. i.e. for english site i use www.xyz.com/en & for danish site i use www.xyz.com/dn I have problems while search…
Lucene randomly failing

Forum / Lucene randomly failing
Created: April 15, 2023 - Last update: October 23, 2023
Umbraco 10.4.2 Twice in the past two weeks lucene has just randomly crapped out, killing all pages that are using Examine for searching. The errors are non-recoverable and are fixed with a server reboot. Any ideas what might be causing this? Here's some sampling of the logs from this evening: …
Lucene site search cache issues

Forum / Lucene site search cache issues
Created: March 16, 2012 - Last update: March 16, 2012
Hi, I've implemented a simple Lucene site search into a website. It seems to work reasonably well except it's returning search results for pages which have been unpublished. I think there are a couple of other issues too, but this is the most clear one and a solution to this might solve…
Luke - Lucene Index Toolbox - How to?

Forum / Luke - Lucene Index Toolbox - How to?
Created: May 11, 2011 - Last update: May 12, 2011
I'm trying to run Luke - Lucene Index Toolbox from the site referenced here but it refuses to run, at least on my Win7 machine. How can I get the lastest version to run? Something was apparently hosed up with my JRE. I installed the latest version from the Sun web site and now, all…
lucene search index was intermittent failing 

Forum / lucene search index was intermittent failing
Created: May 13, 2019 - Last update: May 15, 2019
Hi team, my site occasionally has "An unexpected network error occurred." error. When I see the log , looks like lucene search index was intermittent failing. I have to clean umbraco cache and restart to fix it every time. Is there something we can do to prevent this intermittent issue happe…
nuPickers: Lucene Typeahead erasing characters

Created: May 13, 2016 - Last update: May 13, 2016
Hey there! Using nuPickers 1.5.1 with Umbraco 7.3.8. When typing in the textbox for a piece of content leveraging the Lucene Typeahead data type, it will erase characters as I'm typing at times. Has anyone ran into this at all?That's what I thought, too. When I'm typing the exact name, it works li…
Strange results from a Lucene search

Forum / Strange results from a Lucene search
Created: June 27, 2018 - Last update: July 02, 2018
Hi all, I've been working on extending an existing Umbraco 7.8.1 site. This site has a global search (global in the sense that the search form is on every page and searches every published document). I've added a new section into the content tree and one of the requirements was a local search for…
Search with Examine and Lucene on Umbraco 7

Forum / Search with Examine and Lucene on Umbraco 7
Created: June 21, 2017 - Last update: June 22, 2017
I am looking to wire up a multidimensional search and filtering system on Umbraco 7.6.3, but the Examine and Lucene walkthrough on this site seem to only call out that it's for Umbraco 4.x. Where would I find that help for Umbraco 7+?Hi Drew Umbraco 7+ works with Examine that wraps the Lucene.Net…
_systemUmbracoIndexDontDelete Lucene index massive filesize

Delicious Bookmarks / Website utilities / Packages / Our
Created: November 18, 2009 - Last update: December 23, 2013
Hi all, There was an issue posted on the old forum about the back-end Lucene index getting massive in filesize: http://forum.umbraco.org/yaf_postst9142_datasystemUmbracoIndexDontDelete-folder-1000-MB.aspx I'm experiencing this on one of my Umbraco (v4) installs ... but the index has got up to 6Gb!!!…
Lucene Search Engine results Hebrew

Forum / Lucene Search Engine results Hebrew
Created: August 29, 2018 - Last update: September 20, 2018
Hi, I have implemented Lucene Search Engine results in my website, and it works flawlessly, except one distinct issue: When I try to search a Hebrew term that has double quotation marks in it, I get no results. For example: דפ"ר this word should return results, but it doesn't. Note: wild card wor…
Lucene crashing app pool on DFRS

Forum / Lucene crashing app pool on DFRS
Created: August 30, 2011 - Last update: October 09, 2014
We are running a 4.7.0 site on a web farm, consisting of three servers, a single database, and using DFRS to keep the umbraco file system in order. Recently we've had issues with Lucene crashing the app pool, and bringing dowh the site with a 503 error. The only way we've found to fix it is to delet…
Examine/Lucene turn of case sensitivity

Forum / Examine/Lucene turn of case sensitivity
Created: August 02, 2010 - Last update: June 11, 2013
Hi Guys, We're using umbraco examine for searching and want to work out how to turn of case sensitivity for searches IE if we search for "Screwdriver" vs "screwdriver" we get different results. is there something in the search provider config or something we need to turn off? Cheers, TomI know this…
Lucene Examine search with and without diacritics

Forum / Lucene Examine search with and without diacritics
Created: October 16, 2023 - Last update: October 16, 2023
We are using Umbraco 8 and Umbraco 10 on two different projects. DefaultAnalyzer's **internal index is CultureInvariantWhitespaceAnalyzer** DefaultAnalyzer's **external index is StandardAnalyzer** Both projects have the same configuration, but the search behavior is different - Umbraco 8 - search…
Why not replicate Examine/Lucene indexes?

Forum / Why not replicate Examine/Lucene indexes?
Created: May 06, 2014 - Last update: May 06, 2014
In the documentation topic on setting up an Umbraco load-balanced solution here: http://our.umbraco.org/documentation/installation/load-balancing It mentions this, under the file replication setup option: "When running in a replicated environment Lucene/Examine indexes must not be replicated" My que…
Index files in Virtual Directory in Lucene

Forum / Index files in Virtual Directory in Lucene
Created: October 21, 2015 - Last update: October 27, 2015
I've a problem with indexing a bunch of html-files which lies in a Virtual Directory in an Umbraco site, which needs to be indexed in Lucene. The html-pages are only visible through a single IFrame-page. The IFrame doc type has a Url-field which is used to reference the index.html page in the Virtu…
Lucene search for Chinese language website

Forum / Lucene search for Chinese language website
Created: August 10, 2012 - Last update: August 14, 2012
We have website which uses Lucene examine indexing for searching the site content. It work perefectly fine for english content but when we try to search any chinese content, it showing no results. do we need to add separate analyzer for chinese language ? raju, No idea. As far as I am aware yo…
Indexing numeric datatypes with Examine/Lucene

Forum / Indexing numeric datatypes with Examine/Lucene
Created: December 04, 2013 - Last update: September 12, 2017
Hi all, I'm running my head against the wall here trying to make Umbraco index numeric datatypes to .. well.. numbers in Lucene :-) I have the following IndexSet: <IndexSet SetName="MyIndexSet" IndexPath="~/App_Data/TEMP/ExamineIndexes/MyIndexSet"> <IndexUserFields> <add Nam…
Lucene Reindexer for Umbraco 4.1 RC

Forum / Lucene Reindexer for Umbraco 4.1 RC
Created: June 18, 2010 - Last update: February 06, 2011
Hi, I have been trying to get the default Search box in Umbraco back end to work. It is currently complaining that there is no search index. However I am not sure how do you reindex the Lucene index file. I have tried the following url "http://<my-website>/umbraco/reindex.aspx" but i think i…
Examine Azure: There is no Lucene index in the folder

Forum / Examine Azure: There is no Lucene index in the folder
Created: February 14, 2012 - Last update: February 23, 2012
I have a multi-territorial, multi-language site using Azure Accelerator (with multiple instances) and also using Examine Azure. Unfortunately I cannot get the search to work consistently. I have one search index per territory, so 15 indexes. The Examine configuration is correct, and indexes are bein…
Lucene error after Umrbaco update

Forum / Lucene error after Umrbaco update
Created: March 01, 2021 - Last update: March 09, 2021
Hi community, It seems like an Umbraco update broke our custom Lucene Search functionality on a website. I updated Umbraco from version 8.3.0 to 8.10.2, but got stuck in an error after this update. The website is throwing me this error: [ParseException: '*' or '?' not allowed as first charac…
Examine search error: There is no Lucene index

Forum / Examine search error: There is no Lucene index
Created: October 06, 2010 - Last update: May 19, 2015
Hi all, I need some help getting Examine search to work. I followed the video guid on umbraco.org. But there is no index files being created. I did try to remove the folder 'ExamineIndexes'.ExamineIndexes was re created with the 'SearchIndex' subfolder, and the 'Index' and the 'Queue' folders were c…
Querying with Examine: Fluent API or Raw Lucene?

Forum / Querying with Examine: Fluent API or Raw Lucene?
Created: December 20, 2011 - Last update: December 20, 2011
Just wondering what is the preferred method when querying with Examine - Fluent API or Raw Lucene? And why?
Umbraco 8 Debugging examine / lucene indexes

Forum / Umbraco 8 Debugging examine / lucene indexes
Created: May 06, 2019 - Last update: June 12, 2019
Hi. In umbraco 7 and below it was an option to do a lucene search from the backoffice to inspect what and how Lucene and examine had indexed my documenttypes. Now in umbraco 8 it seems like i only have the weaker Examine search so i cannot verify that everything is indexed as i want it to. Is th…
Adding field to Lucene index for fast retrieval, not searchable

Forum / Adding field to Lucene index for fast retrieval, not searchable
Created: January 24, 2017 - Last update: January 24, 2017
Hello, I am trying to store a few fields in the Lucene index for retrieval only (faster way to present the data on screen) and don't want these fields to affect the Lucene score. Is it possible to specify such thing in the Examine custom Index configuration? Basically I want to include fields from…
Umbraco contractor required with Lucene Experience ASAP

Forum / Umbraco contractor required with Lucene Experience ASAP
Created: December 09, 2010 - Last update: December 09, 2010
My client, a London based digital agency are looking for an Umbraco developer with Lucene experience - immediate start. If your available, please forward your CV to Leon.Joseph@consolpartners.com, 0203 207 7999. Interviews today/ tomorrow...
Lucene PrefetchList Picker with Raw Query with multiple properties

Created: February 02, 2017 - Last update: February 07, 2017
Is it possible to filter the Lucene PrefetchList Picker with multiple properties, such as found in the Lucene documentation? title:"The Right Way" AND text:go Reference: [Lucene Keyword matching][1] [1]: http://www.lucenetutorial.com/lucene-query-syntax.html I'm trying to filter two prope…
"IOException: read past EOF" Lucene - solved

Forum / "IOException: read past EOF" Lucene - solved
Created: July 19, 2011 - Last update: July 19, 2011
I'm putting this info here for future reference, since it has taken me a couple of hours to solve. My users of an Umbraco 4.0.4.1 installation got a YSOD on publishing (not saving) a page. Upon trying the same on the server itself I got a stacktrace starting with "IOException: read past EOF" for Luc…
Can I uninstall Lucene? Do I need it?

Forum / Can I uninstall Lucene? Do I need it?
Created: December 31, 2009 - Last update: September 13, 2011
Hi! Does Umbraco use Lucene under the hood in some way? I use xslt search on my sites and havent done any reading about Lucene yet, and frankly I do not understand what it does other than it's indexing everything. And since the indexing part gives me some errors from time to time, and the number of…
Examine fields.add working same way as lucene?

Forum / Examine fields.add working same way as lucene?
Created: April 17, 2012 - Last update: April 17, 2012
I'm trying to add tags to a node through Examine. I'm using the GatheringNodeDataEvent and looping through the tags on the node. Instead of just a comma seperated list, I would like to add each tag as its own value on a field. In Lucene I would do like this: foreach (var tagId in tagIds){ var tag…
Render Macro from Lucene content (string)

Forum / Render Macro from Lucene content (string)
Created: December 19, 2016 - Last update: December 19, 2016
Hi guys, we need to render a macro embedded inside a normal Rich Text Editor property of a Umbraco node. BUT, in our case, the node is not published. So it's not in Umbraco xml cache. Is something acting like an archive and is queried by Lucene/Examine only. From Examine i can get the content of…
UmbracoExamine clarification creating a custom field in lucene index

Forum / UmbracoExamine clarification creating a custom field in lucene index
Created: June 25, 2010 - Last update: January 14, 2011
Can we create a custom field in Lucene Index file that is created by Umbraco Examine? Lets say i need to create a custom field named "CONTENT" that should contain all the tokenized string/word of UserFields in umbraco documents. ForExample NodeTypeAlias: AboutUs Contains UserFields: F…
Use Examine/Lucene to search variant info

Created: February 21, 2022 - Last update: February 28, 2022
Matt, Ive begun writing site search using Examine and Lucene to quickly query nodes within my ecommerce store. I already provide my query a GroupedOr like this: if(terms != null & terms.Any()) { query.And(q = q .GroupedOr(new[] { "nodeNa…
Could not find file Lucene segment on post

Forum / Could not find file Lucene segment on post
Created: August 27, 2013 - Last update: August 27, 2013
I'm getting this error on posting to a topic: Could not find file '\\n5200-2\iis7_www\a\r\mysite\www\App_Data\TEMP\ExamineIndexes\nForumEntryIndexSet\Index\segments_a'. [FileNotFoundException: Could not find file '\\n5200-2\iis7_www\a\r\mysite\www\App_Data\TEMP\ExamineIndexes\nForumEntryInde…
Examine low level lucene field access

Forum / Examine low level lucene field access
Created: November 12, 2012 - Last update: November 12, 2012
Guys, Possibly more a question for Shannon or Slace. However does anyone know how to get lucene field access before item ends up in index? I have tried some of the low level events like DocumentWriting but no avail. What I want to do is for a given date field set it to not analysed. So in the…
Umbraco Examine or straight Lucene for indexing SQL data?

Forum / Umbraco Examine or straight Lucene for indexing SQL data?
Created: May 11, 2011 - Last update: May 11, 2011
I have a page on my site where we can search for people in a SQL table. Right now, I am using SQL queries to check the first name column, last name column, etc. for matches to the search term(s). I'd like to switch this over to Lucene.NET to be more accurate and efficient as well as…
Can't get proper Lucene query for my search

Forum / Can't get proper Lucene query for my search
Created: August 05, 2014 - Last update: August 05, 2014
The basic thing is: I want to search for a phrase and want all of the words to present in the searched document. The query must look like: (+field1: my + field1: phrase) or (+field2: my + field2: phrase) or (+field3: my + field3: phrase) etc.. How do I make this query with Lucene? Update: I'v…
Could not create an index searcher with the supplied lucene directory

Forum / Could not create an index searcher with the supplied lucene directory
Created: June 11, 2015 - Last update: June 11, 2015
Hello, I got this below error and suddenly my macro stop working. Could not create an index searcher with the supplied lucene directory Please help me !! Regards, Vrushank ShahThanks Urvish for the reply. I did as above. and worked. Thanks again. Regards, Vrushank ShahHi Vrushank, …
Lucene Index Corrupt Exception crashes site

Forum / Lucene Index Corrupt Exception crashes site
Created: January 07, 2020 - Last update: January 24, 2020
Hi all, Running version 7.15. My site was taken down by the below Lucene Corrupt Index error. From the stack trace I don't believe it is related to any custom code. Has anyone received this error and resolved it permanently? By rebuilding the index again and restarting app pool the site began to…
Backoffice Examine Lucene query date range question

Forum / Backoffice Examine Lucene query date range question
Created: October 28, 2017 - Last update: October 31, 2017
Backoffice Examine Lucene query question: In the backoffice Developer tab Examine settings Internal Searcher Lucene Search. If I want to get all documents created between two dates, what should I enter? Whatever I try doesn't work. Thanks in advance.Hi Paul, I apologize for not having a full ex…
Examine Lucene Search Issue and Character Stripping

Forum / Examine Lucene Search Issue and Character Stripping
Created: November 25, 2015 - Last update: November 26, 2015
I have constructed a number of indexes e.g. Standard, Whitespace etc. so that I can set up and test searches. I also have Luke running to test against them as well. It seems like quite a simple issue. I am searching for a phrase e.g. "This is to the right" and I am using the Whitespace index. …