Tag Archives: SOLR

Sitecore SOLR Search in multiselect lists fails unless you add the field to the defaultSolrIndexConfiguration config

Posted on December 21, 2022 by briancaos

So I have this multiselect field in Sitecore: The field is a treelist field, but this article works for all multiselect fields, treelist, checklist, multilist, etc. So how do you return the field as a list of Sitecore ID’s from … Continue reading →

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Write to SOLR from .NET Core

Posted on September 28, 2021 by briancaos

.NET Core supports the SOLR index through the SolrNet.Core NuGet packages. Here is how you update the index. STEP 1: THE NUGET PACKAGES You need the following NuGet packages: SolrNet.Core SolrNet.Microsoft.DependencyInjection STEP 2: CREATE A MODEL CLASS CONTAINING THE PROPERTIES … Continue reading →

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Sitecore ComputedIndexField extends your SOLR index

Posted on April 26, 2021 by briancaos

The Sitecore SOLR index is your quick access to Sitecore content. And you can extend this access by adding computed index fields. This is a way of enriching your searches with content that is not part of your Sitecore templates, … Continue reading →

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Azure Cognitive Search from .NET Core and C#

Posted on December 11, 2020 by briancaos

The Azure Cognitive Search engine is the search of choice in the Microsoft Azure. The search engine can be used in a myriad of ways and there are so many options that it can be difficult to find a starting … Continue reading →

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Solr delete document using UI and querystring

Posted on October 30, 2018 by briancaos

How do you delete a document from Solr? You can use query string parameters to do the delete: https://%5Bserver%5D:8983/solr/%5Bcore%5D/update?commit=true&stream.body=<delete><query>%5Bquery%5D</query></delete&gt; server: The name of your Solr server core: The name of the Solr core (the Solr index) to delete from query: … Continue reading →

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Sitecore install local SSL certificate for shared xConnect SOLR server

Posted on May 11, 2018 by briancaos

In Sitecore 9, the SOLR connection is secure by default. The effect is that if your development environment includes a shared SOLR server, your local IIS requires a SSL certificate issued for that server, even when your local site does … Continue reading →

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Sitecore Paging SOLR Responses

Posted on January 19, 2018 by briancaos

When querying Sitecore items from the SOLR index, you do not need to get all items in one go. In fact, the default SOLR implementation will stop at 5000 returned items, so for large queries, you need to use the … Continue reading →

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Sitecore SOLR error: Invalid Date in Date Math String

Posted on October 25, 2017 by briancaos

There seems to be an issue with certain combinations of Sitecore, SOLR and the local machine datetime settings. This is the error: ManagedPoolThread #11 12:20:50 INFO Job started: Index_Update_IndexName=sitecore_master_index ManagedPoolThread #11 12:20:50 ERROR Exception Exception: System.Reflection.TargetInvocationException Message: Exception has been … Continue reading →

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Sitecore ContentSearch – Get items from SOLR or Lucene – A base class implementation

Posted on June 9, 2017 by briancaos

Reading items from Sitecore is pretty straight forward: And it is fast, unless you need to retrieve items from many paths, or need to retrieve every child of a certain base class. In these situations you resolve to using the … Continue reading →

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Sitecore ContentSearch Get Latest Version

Posted on May 5, 2017 by briancaos

The Sitecore ContentSearch API allows you to index content in either .NET Lucene or SOLR, dramatically speeding up retrieval of content, especially when querying items that are scattered across your content tree. Content retrieved from the ContentSearch API is not … Continue reading →

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