Can I disable Examine indexes on Umbraco front-end servers?

In Umbraco v8, Examine and Lucene are only used for the back office searches, unless you specifically use those APIs for your front-end pages. So can you disable them for your front-end servers?…

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Searching with IPublishedContentQuery in Umbraco

I recently realized that I don’t think Umbraco’s APIs on IPublishedContentQuery are documented so hopefully this post may inspire some docs to be written or at least guide some folks on some…

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Filtering fields dynamically with Examine

The index fields created by Umbraco in Examine by default can lead to quite a substantial amount of fields. This is primarily due in part by how Umbraco handles variant/culture data because it will…

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Examine and Azure Blob Storage

Quite some time ago - probably close to 2 years - I created an alpha version of an extension library to Examine to allow storing Lucene indexes in Blob Storage called Examine.AzureDirectory. This idea…

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How to lazily set the multi-term rewrite method on queries in Lucene

For wildcard queries in Lucene that you would like to have the results ordered by Score, there’s a trick that you need to do otherwise all of your scores will come back the same. The reason for this…

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Paging with Examine

Paging with Lucene and Examine requires some specific API usage. It's very easy to get wrong by using Linq's Skip/Take methods and when doing this you'll inadvertently end up loading in all search results from Lucene and then filtering in memory when what you really want to do is have Lucene only create the minimal search result objects that you are interested in.…

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Examine 1.5.1 released

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New Examine updates and features for Umbraco

It’s been a long while since Examine got some much needed attention and I’m pleased to say it is now happening. If you didn’t know already, we’ve moved the Umbraco Examine source in to the core of Umb…

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