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Installed Connector - Installing the Connector |
Make sure you have created at least one content item (e.g. News)
Open Administration → Search indexes and create a new index
CustomTestIndex
Open it and make sure that News items or the content item you have created is selected
Create a page and add the
Hawksearch box
andHawksearch results
widgetsSelect from the widget designer of both widgets to search in your
CustomTestIndex
Register Custom Search Service
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Please refer to this documentation - Register custom search service |
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Setup search serviceIn order to add external data to the index you need to create a custom search service class which inherits the HawkseachService class and overrides the CreateIndex and UpdateIndex methods. Please refer to the code snippet below. |
Add External Data to the Index
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using Hawksearch.Search; using System.Collections.Generic; using Telerik.Sitefinity.Services.Search.Data; using Telerik.Sitefinity.Services.Search.Model; using Telerik.Sitefinity.Services.Search.Publishing; namespace SitefinityWebApp.Search { public class CustomSearchService : HawksearchService { public override void UpdateIndex(string name, IEnumerable<IDocument> documents) { var documentList = new List<IDocument>(); foreach (var document in documents) { var fields = new List<IField>(); fields.AddRange(document.Fields); var newField = new Field { Name = "your-custom-field-name", Value = "your-custom-field-value" }; fields.Add(newField); var modifiedDocument = new Document(fields, document.IdentityField.Name); documentList.Add(modifiedDocument); } base.UpdateIndex(name, documentList); } } } |
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Once you implement the code in Visual Studio , build your solution and you will also have to reindex the index you are using from Administrator → Search Indexes → Action → Reindex |
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Expected resultsNow if you Inspect your frontend page you should be able to find your custom field added to your document in the XHR search → results → document fields |