Content search

In Rapido, you can set up search for content, products or both in a combined search function. The content search is set up using a Content repository, a JSON search feed, and a search results page.

To set up the content search, you must start with creating a new repository called Content (Figure 2.1). Go to the Settings area and right-click the Repositories node. Click New repository and name it Content.

Now, you must add an index, a query, and some facets.

Figure 2.1 Create a new repository

Click Add Index in the repository toolbar (Figure 3.1). Name the index Content builder.

Figure 3.1 Add a new index

In the index configuration view, click Add Instance and name both the instance and the folder ContentIndex (Figure 3.2).

Figure 3.2 Add a new instance

Now, click Add build to open the build configuration view (Figure 3.3). Name it Content builder and change the Builder to Dynamicweb.Content.ContentIndexBuilder.

Figure 3.3 Add a build

Click Add field. Select the Schema extender field type and the ContentIndexSchemaExtender type (Figure 4.1). Click OK.

Figure 4.1 Create a Schema extender

Save the index. Then, create a new field (Figure 4.2) with the Summary field field type. Name it Free text - also as the system name. Check the field to be indexed and analyzed. In the Field section, add the following fields:

• App item content
• App item category name
• App item title
• Page items content
• Paragraph content
• Paragraph headers
• Paragraph texts
• PageMenuText
• PageMetaTitle

Figure 4.2 Save the index and create a new summary field

Click Save. Then, build the index (Figure 4.3) and Save and close once the ContentIndex instance says "Completed".

Figure 4.3 Save and build the index

With the index all set up, click Add Query in the repository toolbar (Figure 5.1). Name the query Content search and select your new index Content builder as the Data Source.

Figure 5.1 Add query

In the query configuration view, create three parameters using the Add parameter button (Figure 5.2) and leave the default value blank:

• Search with the type System.String (the search string entered in the search bar)
• Areaid with the type System.Int32 (the website ID)
• Pagetype with the type System.String[] (the array of the different page types)

Figure 5.2 Create three parameters

Under Expressions, click Add group (Figure 5.3).

Figure 5.3 Add a group of expressions

Select the Free text field and the Contains operator. Click the pencil icon (Figure 6.1), set the right expression to Parameter, and select the Search parameter created earlier.

Figure 6.1 Add an expression for the Free text parameter in the group of expressions

Add four more expressions using the Add expression button (Figure 6.2). These will include searchable and clickable pages for all your websites in the search.

Select the:

• PageAllowsearch field, the Equal operator, and the True value
• PageAllowClick field, the Equal operator, and the True value
• PageAreaId field, the Equal operator, and click the pencil icon and select the Parameter > Areaid
• PageItemType field, the In operator, and click the pencil icon and select the Parameter > Pagetype

Figure 6.2 Add more expressions

Right now we're working in the level 1 group of expressions. Click Add group (Figure 6.3) to create a level 2 group.

Figure 6.3 Add a new group under the primary group of expressions

In the level 2 group, delete the expression field inside (1) and click Add group (2) (Figure 7.1).

Figure 7.1 Add a new group to the level 2 group

You must (Figure 7.2):

• Change the group selector to Or and check the Negate checkbox
• Select the PageItemType field and Equal operator
• Click the pencil icon and choose Constant and System.String
• Type-in Page as the value and click OK

Figure 7.2 Configure the level 3 group

Click Add group for the level 2 group again (Figure 7.3).

Figure 7.3 Add a new group to the level 2 group

Select the PageHidden field, the Equal operator, and the False value (Figure 8.1).

Basically, this level 2 group excludes hidden pages in the search, by including pages that are either not hidden OR don't have the Page item type.

Figure 8.1 Configure the second level 3 group

At the bottom, click Add group (Figure 8.2) to add another level 2 group.

Figure 8.2 Add a new level 2 group

Check the Negate checkbox for the group. Then:

• Select the PageItemType field and the In operator
• Click the pencil icon and select the Parameter > Pagetype

After that, your query should look like Figure 8.3.

Figure 8.3 Configure the last level 2 group

The last step in creating the Content repository is to create the Content facets. Click Add Facets in the repository toolbar (Figure 9.1). Name them Content facets and select the Content search query.

Figure 9.1 Click Add Facets

In the facets configuration view, click Add field facet (Figure 9.2).

Figure 9.2 Add field facet

You must (Figure 9.3):

• Name it Page type
• Select the PageItemType field
• Select the Pagetype query parameter
• Choose checkboxes as the render type
• Click OK

Now, click Save and close and your Content repository is done!

Figure 9.3 Set up the facets

Now that you have your Content repository set up, you must configure a search feed using JSON. Start with going to Content and create a (blank) page (Figure 10.1). Name it Content search feed and set it to Hide in menu.

Figure 10.1 Create a page called Content search feed

Create a (simple) paragraph called Search feed and go to App to attach the Query publisher app (Figure 10.2).

Figure 10.2 Create a new paragraph and attach the Query publisher app

Under Queries, select the Content search.query that you created earlier as the Query content. Click Save.

Figure 10.3 Select the Content search.query as the Query content and save the paragraph

Still inside the paragraph's app settings, you must (Figure 11.1):

• Under Facets, select the Content facets and move them to selected facets
• Check that the Override default parameters include the same three parameters as in Figure 11.1
• At the bottom under Template, select the QueryPublisher/ContentJSON.cshtml template

Figure 11.1 Move the Content facets to selected facets and select the template

Save and close the paragraph and return to the page overview. In the ribbon bar, click Properties (Figure 11.2).

Figure 11.2 Click Properties in the ribbon bar of the page

Go to the Options tab and click Navigation in the ribbon bar (Figure 11.3).

Figure 11.3 Go to the Options tab and click Navigation

Enter ContentSearchFeed as the navigation tag (Figure 12.1). Click OK.

Figure 12.1 Call the navigation tag ContentSearchFeed

Go to the Layout tab and in the ribbon bar, select the template Rapido: Json with the file name Json.cshtml (Figure 12.2).

Figure 12.2 Go to the Layout tab and select the Rapido: Json template

Click on Content type in the ribbon bar and select application/json (Figure 12.3).

And then you're done with the configuration of the JSON feed! This content search feed will be used by another page to render the search results. So what's left now, is to make that "another page".

Figure 12.3 Define the content type

With the Content repository and the JSON feed set up, you can create the page for the search results.

Start with creating a new (blank) page (Figure 13.1) called Search results and set it to Hide in menu.

Figure 13.1 Create a new page for your search results

Create a (simple) paragraph called Search results. In the Template section in the ribbon bar, select the Search.cshtml template (Figure 13.2).

Figure 13.2 Create a paragraph and set the template to Search.cshtml

Save and close the paragraph and return to the page overview. In the ribbon bar, click Properties (Figure 13.3).

Figure 13.3 Click Properties in the ribbon bar of the page

Go to the Options tab and click Navigation in the ribbon bar (Figure 14.1).

Figure 14.1 Go to the Options tab and click Navigation

Enter ContentSearchResults as the navigation tag (Figure 14.2). Click OK.

Figure 14.2 Call the navigation tag ContentSearchResults

You have now set up your content search!