I have a module that does not need to be searchable. The business controller class does not implement the ISearchable interface, and I understand that is all I need to do to disable that feature. However, if I reindex the site contents, I get repeated errors such as the one below in the Event Log, showing that the Search service has attempted to index the content.

Is there something else I need to do to prevent this happening? Or does the Search service just go through all module controllers without testing to see if they support ISearchable?

 
AssemblyVersion: 5.4.2
PortalID: 5
PortalName: Dotcom Software Solutions Ltd
UserID: 8
UserName: paul
ActiveTabID: 29
ActiveTabName: Search Admin
RawURL: /tabid/29/portalid/5/Default.aspx
AbsoluteURL: /Default.aspx
AbsoluteURLReferrer: http://.../tabid/29/portalid/5/Default.aspx
UserAgent: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 6.1; en-GB; rv:1.9.2.8) Gecko/20100722 Firefox/3.6.8 ( .NET CLR 3.5.30729; .NET4.0E)
DefaultDataProvider: DotNetNuke.Data.SqlDataProvider, DotNetNuke.SqlDataProvider
ExceptionGUID: e87880b4-f392-4d15-accb-f337b3e0f41d
InnerException: Error Creating BusinessControllerClass 'Dotcom.Modules.LicenceMaster.LicenceMasterController' of module(Dotcom.LicenceMaster) id=(1759) in tab(611) and portal(5)
FileName:
FileLineNumber: 0
FileColumnNumber: 0
Method: System.Activator.CreateInstance
StackTrace:
Message: System.Exception: Error Creating BusinessControllerClass 'Dotcom.Modules.LicenceMaster.LicenceMasterController' of module(Dotcom.LicenceMaster) id=(1759) in tab(611) and portal(5) ---> System.ArgumentNullException: Value cannot be null. Parameter name: typeat System.Activator.CreateInstance(Type type, Boolean nonPublic)at DotNetNuke.Framework.Reflection.CreateObject(String TypeName, String CacheKey)at DotNetNuke.Services.Search.ModuleIndexer.GetModuleList(Int32 PortalID)--- End of inner exception stack trace ---at DotNetNuke.Services.Search.ModuleIndexer.GetModuleList(Int32 PortalID)
Source:
Server Name: DWIN11

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Paul Taylor

DotNetNuke, ASP.NET and SQL Server Development

it looks like the module definition does not include proper business controller class declaration, which seems to be read prior to checking the iSearchable flag (which might be an optimization improvement, but this is a different story). Please validate the entry for the Controller class in yuor module definition or clear it, if iPortable isn't supported either.

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Cheers from Germany,
Sebastian Leupold

   

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