I am in the process of trying to get Lucene search to work with my Sitecore installation.
I have tried following the example listed in the Sitecore guide (sections 2.1 thru 2.2.2).
After adding the LuceneSearchBox and clicking on the control's search button, I receive the following error:
Server Error
500 - Internal server error.
There is a problem with the resource you are looking for, and it cannot be displayed.
This is what appears in the address bar, in the event it provides some helpful clues:
mytestsite/sitecore/service/nolayout.aspx?item=%2fstandard_items%2fsearch_results&layout=%7b00000000-0000-0000-0000-000000000000%7d&device=Default
Should I be doing something with the LuceneSearchResults control? The guide does not mention doing anything with the LucenSearchResult control.
Notes:
I am using this on a web site that I have created, not the "Office Core Web site" listed in the guide.
I am running Sitecore 6.3.1
The most common way of working with Lucene in Sitecore is by using the Advanced Database Crawler project. Alex Shyba, a Solution Architect at Sitecore, put together a C# class library that wraps the native Lucene functionality and adds helper methods to make it easy to use Lucene to search for content in Sitecore.
There's two parts to this project: 1. Advanced Database Crawler, 2. Searcher.
Here's the URL, http://sitecoreblog.alexshyba.com/2010/11/sitecore-searcher-and-advanced-database.html?m=1.
Related
TOPIC - Google Search Engine / Custom Search - with Database
References
Search for "Google Search Engine" and "Google Custom Search"
(New to StackOverflow; just joined the other day.I'm limited to 2 links I can post right now).
NOTE:
I have not YET decided/committed to any specific coding language, framework, etc. Not until I figure out how to accomplish my question (below).
BACKGROUND INFO
What I'm trying to do (for now) is add a "search-box/ search engine" to a simple website I'm building out. Before I get too far into it (planning ahead) I would like to use Google CSE if all possible (which can do A LOT of things and works well). However, I will have a database (not sure on type YET. Will depend on what my options and I can do with CSE) of "items" that I want to be able to quickly search (in the search-box) i.e. like Amazon.com.
QUESTION:
Is there any way at all, to use Google Custom Search and or Custom Search API to search/attach a database (SQL, NoSQL, or others)? I would HIGHLY prefer being able to do all of this in Google Cloud Platform, and use one of their storage/database products.
If I get what you try to do, Google CSE is enough.
From the google doc you linked :
#Defining a Custom Search Engine in Control Panel
In the Sites to search section, add the pages you want to include in
your search engine. You can include any sites you want, not just the
sites you own. You can include whole site URLs or individual pages
URLs. You can also use URL patterns.
#Enabling Autocomplete
[...]you can enable or disable autocomplete feature using
enableAutoComplete attribute.
For the Is there any way at all [..] to search a database, I'll said not directly, but it's not a big problem.
Google CSE work on "indexable web pages", so it'll not work again a raw DB, restricted internet, or custom network not under http(s)://.
But in your case, if you make a DB, I suppose you'll have to make web page to display the data you store inside to your users ? (like products pages on Amazon)
If yes, then you'll run Google CSE again these pages by adding your http://[server ip] or http://[domain name] in the white list.
As far as I know, custom search won't guarantee all your content will be indexed.
You probably want to try exporting a full sitemap.xml, a RSS feed and if the custom search results from either of these won't satisfy you, you will probably want to look at the google search appliance product.
There's also http://sphinxsearch.com/ by the way.
Is it possible to use Lucene Search in Sitecore and have the results returned as JSON by the Sitecore Item Web API?
The documentation for the Sitecore Item Web API on the Sitecore Developer Network doesn't give any examples how to use Lucene Search through the Item Web API.
The end result I'm looking for is to have the search results returned as JSON based on the search parameter provided. Since the Sitecore Item Web API can be used with Sitecore Query to retrieve items it would be convenient to be able to use it for search as well.
I do not think this is possible with the default implementation of the Item Web Api.
You can however extend it. When you look into the config, there is a lot of points where you can hook up with extensions.
You should be able to add your custom processor in the itemWebApiRequest pipeline. I would add new processor there which inherits from Sitecore.ItemWebApi.Pipelines.Request.RequestProcessor and add logic to handle Lucene queries there.
Context:
The Web interface coded in .NET (Grantee Portal for nonprofits applying for grants) is pulling information from the Salesforce Page Layout.
The Salesforce user we use to connect the Web interface with Salesforce via API has 'view all and edit all' rights
Issue:
As it is now, if a field is defined as Read-Only on the Page Layout in Salesforce, it is still editable on the web page (the Salesforce User we use has to have 'view all and edit all' rights)
What we are trying to achieve:
IF a field is defined as Read-Only on the Salesforce Page Layout
THEN the same field should be Read-Only on the Web interface page
Question:
To achieve the above, I guess that I need to fetch the field property for the Page Layout via API. Any ideas on how to do so?
Thank you!
Izumi.
You'll need Metadata API (the set of webservices that let you add new objects, fields, picklist values or even create classes & run unit tests).
Here's the API Guide: http://www.salesforce.com/us/developer/docs/api_meta/index.htm
Depending on how often you modify layouts you might decide "screw it, I'll just use Eclipse IDE". In that case you'd download all page layouts (they're XML files), point your C# app to them and let the magic happen.
Slightly more advanced is to use Migration Tool (Ant / Java based application that can be scripted for periodic download of same stuff).
Super advanced would be to use this API guide to write it in C#. It's not rocket science (here's the specification for Page Layout object and here's the Java sample code for the operation that retrieves the metadata... sorry, no C#). Actually you might be better off looking at this example though: http://www.salesforce.com/us/developer/docs/api/Content/sforce_api_calls_describelayout.htm
Seeing that you'll probably want to cache this info somewhere anyway (I can't imagine your user coming to your page, having to wait for the webservice callout to complete, then having his UI rendered) - pick your poison.
Or share the work within the team (1 person kicks off with files downloaded with Eclipse, other tries to figure out the C# code to retrieve them on demand).
I need to be able to deploy bunch of aspx files when a site (sub-site aka web) is provisioned. I added a feature but it seems whole feature thing has changed with vs 2010 or sp2010. I am totally lost. All I want to do is to deploy these pages when a web is provisioned. Is it possible?
You can't drop aspx pages into SharePoint per say. If you want to add functionality, some of the options are:
1) Using Web Parts - probably the most popular method
2) User Controls
At the end of the day, you will create it as a Feature using VSeWSS 3.0 in VS and packaging/deploying it as a solution. Steer clear of trying to hack this up in SharePoint Designer - for one, you won't have source control like you have with a Feature.
http://www.andrewconnell.com/blog/articles/UsingCodeBehindFilesInSharePointSites.aspx
http://www.codersbarn.com/?tag=/webpart
I am working on a website in dnn. I want to change the language of website or particular page. So I download the language package for spanish(es-es),chinese(zh-cn) and install them from host. Next when I changed the language of browser then the website language didn't change. Working on dnn 5.0.
Please let me know how I can use language packages in dnn website.
For initial translations and maintenance of DotNetNuke translations, I recommend the use of OmegaT. It handles resx files directly. And content (such as HTML or Blogs) can be downloaded, translated and then uploaded thanks to the APIs of DNN (drop me a note if you need the scripts).
OmegaT stores the translations in it's memory (a TMX file, which is actually some kind of XML). It also uses Google Translate and similars, and has a fast user interface which increases translation speed a lot when compared against continously waiting for DotNetNuke to handle your updated resources.
More info on OmegaT. An example of a translated site and modules: site translated from Dutch into English
You should probably ask this in the DotNetNuke forums: http://www.dotnetnuke.com/tabid/795/default.aspx.
There's one dedicated forum for questions about language packs and localization. You will probably find your answer there: http://www.dotnetnuke.com/Community/Forums/tabid/795/forumid/77/scope/threads/Default.aspx
The language packs don't always have translations for everything on the site, especially content that you added yourself. You'll need to do two things to get them working properly:
Go to Admin > Languages, and enable the languages you want to use.
Open the Language Editor and start translating. Under each resource name, you will see an edit text box for the localized value, and a read-only text box for the default value. In most cases, you'll need to translate verbatim what you see under "default value".
We had to write our own menu provider to get the menu to do this - instead of going for the resource files we went for a database solution - other reasons applied to this as well - we also built an interface for doing this - as for things like the text/html module there are some third party builds that allow you to nationalize content. Apollo comes to mind Apollo Software they have some multilanguage modules
The language packs will typically only localize text used by the core such as "Login" and "Settings". It is designed so that you can have a site in a language other than English, not so you can have multiple languages on one site. You can easily have multiple portals, each with a different language.
In order to have multiple locales on one portal you will need to use a third party module or develop your own.