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• Byzza Intermediate

  Posted on Mar 9, 2010 (permalink)

  Ok, so i'm just testing various installation metions so that Its easier for us (the IT team) to manage our intranet and we have decided that currently our best option is to have multiple sites, with just one security system.
  I.E. we want our setup such:
  
  http://intranet/telerik/.... (project manager)
  http://intranet/cms/... (Generic content and main DB, all security stored in this one)
  http://intranet/project1/  (one of our projects, own db, using cms db for security)
  http://intranet/help/ (our help project, own db, using cms db for security)
  etc.
  
  project1, help, etc will each have their own seach indexes and search page (this is easy built in function).  But on the home page (cms) we want to be able to search ALL our projects. 
  
  So my questions is:
  Is there any way to do this?
  
  If there isn't, can you maybe suggest an better way for us to setup our CMS system.
  
  Thank you
  Byron

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• Ivan Dimitrov Ivan Dimitrov

  Posted on Mar 10, 2010 (permalink)

  Hello Byzza,
  
  The default search engine works only in the context of one website. Each index generates segments files in App_Data folder.
  
  If you use on instance of Sitefinity you can combine several search indexes. This is achievable if cms, telerik, help are group pages. You can configure the index to start indexing from a node or just all items. then the SearchResults control will display everything.
  
  If you want to use different instances of Sitefinity, this will be a problem, because each website will generate its own search engine segments files which you will not be able to merge. You can get around  this by using file replication tool that copies the segment files from App_Data folder between the websites. Then you need to create a custom SearchResults control that can work with more than one index - the default control supports only one index.
  
  You may find this posts useful
  
  

  • How to search for mutliple search indexes?
  • search separate sitefinity installations on subdomain

  
  Best wishes,
  Ivan Dimitrov
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