In Sitecore 9+ we can now populate Solr managed schema through the Sitecore control panel. It is still possible to use the legacy schema.xml files, but it is actually a lot more comfortable to be able to just deploy the…
I’ve had a problem with a custom index some time ago. Entries were showing up multiple times when doing incremental updates of the index i.E. when saving an item. The only thing that would clean up the index again would…
I faced the issue that checkbox values were not being updated in the index correctly. When I unchecked a checkbox and saved, the index would still have “1” stored as value for my field. To prevent this issue, use Sytem.Boolean…
We have faced a problem when working with multilists and custom indexes. Some of our multilists would not contain any data even though the lucene queries would have matches when querying the index directly. We found that the problem had to do…
After upgrading to Sitecore 7.2 I ran into this exception in the crawling log when trying to index PDF documents: Unable to create document builder (). Please check your configuration. We will fallback to the default for now. The solution…
After upgrading to Sitecore 7.2 we got the following exception when trying to build our custom indexes: The resolution to this is quite simple. Sitecore has included <initializeOnAdd> to the index configuration. If this field is missing in the configuration,…
