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Dan Main
Dan Main

Reputation: 37

Kentico Smart Search for application with multiple sites

I am having quite the difficulty. on our company site https://temp-quitlogixbase.quitlogix.org I had set up the Smart Search functionality. setting up indexes for each of the sites with in the application

(i.e.

https://colorado.quitlogix.org https://arkansas.quitlogix.orghttps://idaho.quitlogix.org

)

I even made sure to limit each site to the index meant for it. the problem is that the smart search results, either changes for each site, or if I include multipule indexes it gives me all the results for all the indexes, not just for the site I am working with. can some one help as to what I am doing wrong?

Upvotes: 1

Views: 194

Answers (1)

mnield
mnield

Reputation: 1869

From your description, it sounds like you want each site's search to work independently so that - e.g. - Idaho results are not served on the Colorado search results.

To do this, you'll have (and sounds like you do) a SmartSearch index set up for each site with the allowed content in the index limited to the site in question.

What I would look at is the template your using for the search results. It looks very similar on the three sites you've listed, which makes me think that they are the same template. If that is the case and you're using a web part for the search results, you'll need a macro or some other logic to tell the page which index to look at.The template is effectively global, so each time you set the index on the Smart search results web part, it will override the previous value, even if you're switching between sites.

A way to do the switching can be to set the Indexes field to something like the following macro:

{% if (CurrentSite.CodeName == "QuitLogix_Arkansas") { "ArkansasSiteIndex" } else if(CurrentSite.CodeName == "QuitLogix_Colorado") { "ColoradoSiteIndex" } else {"IdahoSiteIndex"} @%}

If you've done all that or are using separate templates, you will not need that. Other options can include using multiple Smart search results web parts with their set the visibility based upon the current site or by having a different template for each sub-domain.

Upvotes: 1

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