Goal
The aim of this article is to demonstrate how to index DateTime fields so that their type is properly parsed passed to the Hawksearch API.
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Navigate to Administration → Search indexes (your-site-domain/Sitefinity/Administration/Search)
Open the index for editing
Under Advanced → Additional fields for indexing add the fields e.g. Lastmodified, DateCreated
Save the changes
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using System;
using System.Collections.Generic;
using System.Linq;
using Hawksearch.Search;
using Telerik.Sitefinity.Configuration;
using Telerik.Sitefinity.Services.Search;
namespace SitefinityWebApp
{
public class CustomSearchService : HawksearchService
{
public override void CreateIndex(string sitefinityIndexName, IEnumerable<IFieldDefinition> fieldDefinitions)
{
var definitionList = new List<IFieldDefinition>(fieldDefinitions);
this.ModifyDatetimeFields(definitionList);
base.CreateIndex(sitefinityIndexName, definitionList);
}
private void ModifyDatetimeFields(List<IFieldDefinition> definitionList)
{
var configManager = ConfigManager.GetManager();
var section = configManager.GetSection<DatetimeFieldsConfig>();
if (section != null)
{
var dateTimeFields = section.DatetimeFields.Keys;
foreach (var field in dateTimeFields)
{
var dateTimeField = definitionList.FirstOrDefault(f => f.Name == field);
if (dateTimeField != null)
{
definitionList.Remove(dateTimeField);
var dateTimeFieldDefinition = Telerik.Sitefinity.Abstractions.ObjectFactory.Resolve<IFieldDefinition>();
dateTimeFieldDefinition.Name = "Datetime"dateTimeField.Name;
dateTimeFieldDefinition.Type = typeof(DateTime);
definitionList.Add(dateTimeFieldDefinition);
}
}
}
}
}
} |
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