Author: zmalmquist

Sitecore Azure: Request size exceeded Azure Search Service limits

Azure Search with Sitecore is a great alternative to SOLR, especially if you are working with an Azure environment. I have found it simple to setup, especially in Sitecore 9 with the single configuration property to switch between SOLR, Lucene, and Azure. Once you have created your resource, and configured your connection strings it is … Continue reading Sitecore Azure: Request size exceeded Azure Search Service limits →

Azure search and multilist guid fields

I recently went down the path of learning about Azure Search. One of the requirements of this project is to be able to search on categories the item might have. I had originally tackled this problem years ago with Lucene and SOLR inside XBlog. When dealing with a multilist field of guids you search predicate … Continue reading Azure search and multilist guid fields →

XBlog 8.2 Patch

Akshay Sura recently installed XBlog and found a problem on Sitecore 8.2 Update 5. He found that the database type had changed from Sitecore.Data.Database to Sitecore.Data.DefaultDatabase . I dug through the older versions and found that this was present in all Sitecore 8.2 Updates. To manually fix this problem please navigate to App_Config/Include/XBlog.Sitecore.Buckets.config . There … Continue reading XBlog 8.2 Patch →

Modifying Coveo’s default MVC search for Sitecore

I recently had the opportunity to dive into Coveo search for Sitecore. This article assumes that you have installed Coveo successfully, have it working against Sitecore, and are wondering what is next. Coveo provides an out of box MVC solution to start from. You can add this to your content tree, publish, and assuming you … Continue reading Modifying Coveo’s default MVC search for Sitecore →