Custom Examine index. Make index fields varying on a culture. Umbraco #help-with-umbraco

Custom Examine index. Make index fields varying on...

Marian

04/24/2024, 4:40 PM

Hello. We use custom Examine index, configured it like described here: https://docs.umbraco.com/umbraco-cms/reference/searching/examine/indexing#creating-your-own-index We are going to make the site multi-languaged. Which ia preferred way to make indexed values also in multiple languages? E.g. some content node has Description property filled as "Computers" in English and as "Ordinadores" in Spanish. Custom Examine index has e.g. custom field "description" which is based on this property. We want to be able to store both languages texts of Description in the index field. So if a user is on English version and types keyword "computers" - he finds the page in custom index. And if a user switches to Spanish version and types "ordinadores" - he also finds the same page in the index. Ideally, if a user is in Spanish version, but types "computers" - it should not find the node (as in Spanish version it does not contain that word), etc. Could you please advise - which is the preferrable and quite easy to develop/support option to implement this thing? Thanks.

Jemayn

04/24/2024, 7:17 PM

As soon as you enable variants on the doc type and save a node it will automatically generate new fields that append the culture: https://cdn.discordapp.com/attachments/1232732922151309373/1232772301326520422/image.png?ex=662aac2c&is=66295aac&hm=a301d5767d181ab37b3cc553c6a57a2db7d573b5e5cb5345b86c742941445ef7&

Jemayn

04/24/2024, 7:21 PM

We have a helper to always generate a proper field string for both cultures and facets which is like this:

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csharp
public static string GetIndexFieldName(string indexField, string culture, bool facet = false)
{
    var indexedFieldName = $"{indexField}_{culture.ToLowerInvariant()}";

    return facet ? $"facet_{indexedFieldName}" : indexedFieldName;
}

Then you could fx do something like this to add a new query param:

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csharp
query
    .And()
    .Field(
        IndexingHelper.GetIndexFieldName(
            IndexingConstants.VariantSkuField,
            culture
        ),
        searchTerm.Boost(10)
    );

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