How to implement search with SQL Server full text catalog without or with minumum XSLTs ?
Hi Guys,
I am building a site in Umbraco (this is my first site) and I have to implement something like very simple product shop.
So I have a paged listing page where the user sees all products with a summary. When the user clicks on a product the details view of that product with more info is shown. I am not a big fan of XSLT's for complicated logic so I have built my own tables to store information about the products and I have built my own CMS UI to enter that information. I am planning to provide a link from within Umbraco (something next to say development at your bottom left) to show my simple CMS page.
So now the question:
I need to implement a search for the website but a slightly more sofisticated search: The user sees a search textbox and a combobox with categories so that he/she can search only within a particular product categoy and not neccessarily the whole site. When the user does a search he/she is redirected to page where the results are shown but are organized into categories something like this:
Bags Category
Red bag - This is a nice bag buy it now ... more
Hats Category
Blue lady's har - This is an extremely nice ... more
etc.
Any hints on how to best implemnt that search with C# and SQL Sever Full Text catalog will be great.
I looked at the Lucene + XSLT searches implemented and I find them extremely diffcult so I am definately going to avaoid that.
And another question that I have is: The implementation that I made smells to me. I mean having to built a CMS to handle my products kind of defies the purpose of using a CMS so if I used umbraco to enter product information how should I have went to create my listing page user control and details view user control with C#, again no XSLT's please. The problem is I do not see how to extract the content I need from Umbraco from within C# all examples show you how you get some xml and then use a complicated XSLT to transform that into your pages.While building my own tables to store that information allows me to access it in say the following way: SELECT ProductSummary,ProductId,ImageUrl FROM PRODUCT. Is there any API that I can use to achieve the same result (query that information from the umbraco storage) ?
Leaving this question without an anser made me think and I am comming to realize that I might be doing something wrong.
So now I am thinking to dump my separate cms and use the umbraco API to access the content and use Umbraco Examine for the search and maybe write a custom indexer and provider to use SQL Server full text catalog instead of lucene.
Does that sound more right than what I was doing ?
Any hints or help on the full text catalog search would be appreciated.
I have made some progress thanks to the projects UmbSearch2 and UmbracoExamine.
So I went for creating an EventHandler and subscribed for the two events: Document.AfterPublish and Document.AfterUnPublish.
On AfterPublish I index on AfterUnPublish I delete the data from the indexed table.
The problem now is that I have a page with a macro which is a usercontrol. On that usercontrol there is also some text that I would like indexed. Is it possible to somehow get that text. I am currently doing this:
public static void Index(umbraco.cms.businesslogic.web.Document node) { // nodes that are marked hide from searching shouldn't be indexed if (node.getProperty("umbracoSearchHide") != null) { int v = 0; int.TryParse(node.getProperty("umbracoSearchHide").Value.ToString(), out v); if (v == 1) { IndexerDA.DeleteNodeText(node.Id, IndexCategory.Generic); return; } }
StringBuilder sb = new StringBuilder(); foreach (Property p in node.getProperties) { sb.AppendLine(umbraco.library.StripHtml(p.Value.ToString())); }
if (!IndexerDA.UpdateNodeText(node.Id, sb.ToString(), IndexCategory.Generic)) { IndexerDA.CreateNodeText(node.Id, sb.ToString(), IndexCategory.Generic); } }
The problem is that in my StringBuilder with the content I would like indexet I get the macro tag <?MACRO .../> but I want to get the text the usercontrol contains there. Do you think that that is possible ?
How to implement search with SQL Server full text catalog without or with minumum XSLTs ?
Hi Guys,
I am building a site in Umbraco (this is my first site) and I have to implement something like very simple product shop.
So I have a paged listing page where the user sees all products with a summary. When the user clicks on a product the details view of that product with more info is shown. I am not a big fan of XSLT's for complicated logic so I have built my own tables to store information about the products and I have built my own CMS UI to enter that information. I am planning to provide a link from within Umbraco (something next to say development at your bottom left) to show my simple CMS page.
So now the question:
I need to implement a search for the website but a slightly more sofisticated search: The user sees a search textbox and a combobox with categories so that he/she can search only within a particular product categoy and not neccessarily the whole site. When the user does a search he/she is redirected to page where the results are shown but are organized into categories something like this:
Bags Category
Red bag - This is a nice bag buy it now ... more
Hats Category
Blue lady's har - This is an extremely nice ... more
etc.
Any hints on how to best implemnt that search with C# and SQL Sever Full Text catalog will be great.
I looked at the Lucene + XSLT searches implemented and I find them extremely diffcult so I am definately going to avaoid that.
And another question that I have is: The implementation that I made smells to me. I mean having to built a CMS to handle my products kind of defies the purpose of using a CMS so if I used umbraco to enter product information how should I have went to create my listing page user control and details view user control with C#, again no XSLT's please. The problem is I do not see how to extract the content I need from Umbraco from within C# all examples show you how you get some xml and then use a complicated XSLT to transform that into your pages.While building my own tables to store that information allows me to access it in say the following way: SELECT ProductSummary,ProductId,ImageUrl FROM PRODUCT. Is there any API that I can use to achieve the same result (query that information from the umbraco storage) ?
Thank you very much for your answers.
Regards,
kzmp
Hi again,
Leaving this question without an anser made me think and I am comming to realize that I might be doing something wrong.
So now I am thinking to dump my separate cms and use the umbraco API to access the content and use Umbraco Examine for the search and maybe write a custom indexer and provider to use SQL Server full text catalog instead of lucene.
Does that sound more right than what I was doing ?
Any hints or help on the full text catalog search would be appreciated.
Regards,
kzmp
OK ok,
I have made some progress thanks to the projects UmbSearch2 and UmbracoExamine.
So I went for creating an EventHandler and subscribed for the two events: Document.AfterPublish and Document.AfterUnPublish.
On AfterPublish I index on AfterUnPublish I delete the data from the indexed table.
The problem now is that I have a page with a macro which is a usercontrol. On that usercontrol there is also some text that I would like indexed. Is it possible to somehow get that text. I am currently doing this:
public static void Index(umbraco.cms.businesslogic.web.Document node)
{
// nodes that are marked hide from searching shouldn't be indexed
if (node.getProperty("umbracoSearchHide") != null)
{
int v = 0;
int.TryParse(node.getProperty("umbracoSearchHide").Value.ToString(), out v);
if (v == 1)
{
IndexerDA.DeleteNodeText(node.Id, IndexCategory.Generic);
return;
}
}
StringBuilder sb = new StringBuilder();
foreach (Property p in node.getProperties)
{
sb.AppendLine(umbraco.library.StripHtml(p.Value.ToString()));
}
if (!IndexerDA.UpdateNodeText(node.Id, sb.ToString(), IndexCategory.Generic))
{
IndexerDA.CreateNodeText(node.Id, sb.ToString(), IndexCategory.Generic);
}
}
The problem is that in my StringBuilder with the content I would like indexet I get the macro tag <?MACRO .../> but I want to get the text the usercontrol contains there. Do you think that that is possible ?
Regards,
Kostadin
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