Including tag fields in scope of a search index of custom co

Thanks for your time. I'm trying to set up a SiteFinity search index to include the tags of a custom content type. Right now it just seems to parse the other content fields, which are long text, etc. but I would like to be able to verify that the search index is catching specific applied tags by searching those tags & seeing the corresponding tagged content in the search results. Does anyone know how to accomplish this without cracking open code-behind and requiring development hours? Thanks,

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I guess I can just open a support ticket but this really seems like such a basic use case.

Hi,

There is no functionality to allow search based on tags out of the box, a customization to the search is needed to support this case, refer to this blog post for a sample of extending the search functionality.

Regards,
Stanislav Velikov
Telerik

Thank you Stanislav.

After some thinking on this, I don't see a strong need to index against the tags. A case can be made that doing so misses the point of tagging.

Tagging is really most useful for filtering a sets of objects to those matching one or more arbitrary, non-hierarchical classifications. Nothing prevents users from tagging things incorrectly to try and manipulate search algorithms, which is fine for "power users" who really understand what they are trying to do, but for almost everyone else a hard-coded search algorithm should just index content fields conventionally to decide what is most relevant and return expected results.

Hi,

This case is valid tough for specific projects there can be a real need to search based on taxonomy and as an example I can state that some scenarios use taxonomies not just for tagging, but for a specific purpose defined in project requirements where it makes it necessary to search taxonomies.
This is not valid for every case of course, if tags are used for tagging and classification management, getting a meaningful results from search based on tag may not be the best approach.

Regards,
Stanislav Velikov
Telerik