Searching Generic Content

Maybe I am missing something but I can't seem to find any documentation on how to get search and indexing to actually index the contents of my generic content.  I have turned on indexing for Static HTML however this seems to only be indexing my page titles.  Can someone point me in the right direction on where to get the indexing service to index my generic content?  Also does anyone know if there is some sitefinity 4 documentation on setting up indexing of a custom module?

I am using 4.1 SP2.

Hi Kris,

Static HTML should index the entire page content. Please upgrade the project to SP3. We had the issue you  describing in older releases.
When you set the scope of the index there is option "Content Items" which is supposed to index the content items from Generic Content module. Currently there is an issue with Content Items scope - we left a reference to Content list and this will be fixed for Q2 release.

Regards,
Ivan Dimitrov
the Telerik team

Marvellous!

I've just spent a week upgrading to 4.1 SP2 just to now find out to get search working i need to upgrade again! Nice Telerik - really nice!

Ivan,
I'm using 4.2 SP1 (4.2.1733.0) and am getting the same issues.  None of the generic content is being indexed as part of the pages even though 'Static HTML in pages' and News items are the only items ticked.  Can you advise?

Hi,

Check the log files in App_Data/Sitefinity/Logs after you index the website and after you try to search for page content.

Greetings,
Ivan Dimitrov
the Telerik team

Hi Ivan,
There's definitely loads of errors happening when I reindex - there's too many entries to post, but here's a couple examples:

Hi,

You have a custom navigation widget on your pages or template that causes the issue

Bytanium.Sitefinity.Web.UI.Widgets.Navigation.Breadcrumbs.InitializeBreadcrumbTrailControl()

Try to remove it temporarily and trigger the search then see if there will be a result, so we will be sure that the problem is from this control. You can also paste its code here or InitializeBreadcrumbTrailControl method.

Kind regards,
Ivan Dimitrov
the Telerik team

Hi Ivan,

same problem here with this widget. Removing the widget indeed fixes the problem. Is there a workaround so I can still use this widget? Or should I create my own breadcrumbs?

Thanks in advance,
Peter

PS: I tried to create a response on the breadcrumbs widget page with the same question, but I get a server error after submitting the question

Hello,

I am not familiar with the widget from the marketplace. You can contact the owner of the control to fix it, because there is issue with it. Another option is to escape the logic inside its Initialize method with the code below

if(!page.Items["IsInIndexMode"])

  


Which will not execute the the widget code during indexing.


Regards,
Ivan Dimitrov
the Telerik team

-- removed --

Hello, we're the developers of this widget. We will now test it on this scenario and release a hotfix for you. Thanks for reporting the problem.

Hi Nelson,

that would be very nice! Any idea about the estimated time?

Regards,
Peter

Hi Peter,

We still haven't been able to reproduce the issue on our end. Do you know if this problem exist in SF 4.4? or it's just in older versions?

Nelson

Hi Nelson,

nope, I'm working with version 4.4. Some extra info, I have generic content as well as shared content. The shared content is found, the custom (generic) content on the different pages not. 

Regards,
Peter

Hi Peter,

The package was updated on the marketplace (SF 4.4 version only). Please, let me know if the problem is now gone.

Regards,
Nelson

Hi Nelson,

I tried immediately after your post and the problem seems to be gone. Thank you very much!

Best regards,

Peter