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Keeping track of ContentHub assets used in Sitecore XM

ContentHub integrates nicely with Sitecore XM through Sitecore Connect for ContentHub. Probably the most popular use case is referencing assets stored in ContentHub’s DAM instead of using classic Media Items. This is integrated nicely through an extension of the image…

By Mark | November 28, 2021 | ContentHub | No Comments |

Use System.Boolean when indexing checkbox fields

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…

By Mark | June 27, 2014 | ContentSearch | 2 Comments |

Determining the Context Index when performing bucket queries

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…

By Mark | May 26, 2014 | ContentSearch | No Comments |

Unable to create document builder – crawling exception after upgrading to SC 7.2

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…

By Mark | May 25, 2014 | ContentSearch | 3 Comments |

NullReferenceException in custom Index after upgrading to Sitecore 7.2

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,…

By Mark | May 9, 2014 | ContentSearch | 1 Comment |