1. EasySearch Technical Overview

2. Problem Statement Ever seen a website without a full text search? BUT Search is expensive Financially Computationally Search is complicated But it doesn’t need to be!

3. EasySearch Simple Easy to install Via EPiServer Manager Easy to configure Edit XML in web.config Extremely flexible configuration model Combine and transform individual page properties Full IntelliSense support inside Visual Studio Inexpensive FREEfor all non-commercial use NOK30,000for commercial deployment (approx. £3,000) Enterprise license pricing available on request

4. Published Source Published on EPiCode by BV Network AS Bug Tracking If you see a problem, tell us! Feature Tracking If you want a feature, tell us! Wiki Fostering a user community

5. Improved Indexing Page and files are indexed on EPiServer events Not visible until publication Updated when the page or files are Removed on page or file delete No site crawlers Produces unreliable search anyway Much more efficient Pages show up in search results immediately after publication

7. Joining all string, long string and XHTML properties<indexconfiguration/>

9. Configuration 3 Configure storage of specific fields in Lucene <indexonconfiguration xmlns:lucene="http://www.networkedplanet.com/schema/easysearch/configuration/lucene" xmlns="http://www.networkedplanet.com/schema/easysearch/configuration" xmlns:xsi="http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema-instance" xsi:type="lucene:LuceneIndexConfiguration"> <pagetypeName="Person"> <property Name="description“ IncludeInCommonContent="true“ xsi:type="lucene:LuceneProperty“> <lucene:fieldName="description“ FieldStore="NO“ FieldTermVector="NO" FieldIndex="TOKENIZED“ Boost="1.2“ /> </property> <property Name="EPi_PageName“ IncludeInCommonContent="true" /> </pagetype> </indexconfiguration>

10. Configuration 4 Configure the Lucene Index <indexonconfiguration xmlns:lucene="http://www.networkedplanet.com/schema/easysearch/configuration/lucene" xmlns="http://www.networkedplanet.com/schema/easysearch/configuration" xmlns:xsi="http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema-instance" xsi:type="lucene:LuceneIndexConfiguration"> <lucene:configurationRelativeDirecoryPath="EasySearchLuceneIndex" DocumentPrimaryKey="EPi_PageId" DocumentPrimaryKeyField="easysearch_primarykey" DocumentCommonContentField="easysearch_primarycontent" IndexWriterMaximumFieldLength="25000"> </indexconfiguration>

11. EasySearch – Admin Plug-in Admin Mode Plug-in Index Pages Search Site Show entire records

12. Edit Mode Plug-in Coming soon! Allows editors to see how their page will be indexed. Run sample searches to find whether page will be found after publication. Can be used to prevent/force indexing. Allows forced customizations to be made to the search record. Forces re-indexing of last published.

13. Developer’s API EasySearch Generic API Simple Search API using back-end query parser Lucene back-end supports: Wildcards, Fuzzy Terms, Range Searches, Boosting, Boolean operators, Escaping Lucene Specific API Provides direct access to the Lucene Query API Ultimately flexible

14. Event Pipeline Developers can customize indexing process. Indexing process is pluggable: Intercept indexing of a document for modification Provide .NET code handlers in for modifying or creating new indexed fields

15. Provided Web Parts EasySearch comes with 3 ASP.NET Web Parts EasySearchInputWebPart ESSearchResultsWebPart PagingWebPart All open source Tailor to your specific site OR use out of the box All connections are interface-based Allows easily replacement of individual parts Supplied demo page shows them working together

18. ESSearchResultsWebPart Ships with XSLT for HTML formatted results