Hi,

i have installed DNN 4.5.3 starter kit and created a very simple custom module in C#, just to get my hands on.

I have implemented the ISearchable interface via the GetSearchItems function inside the <My Module>Controller.cs, as indicated to the site's documentation.

I have also added some contents inside my module that i would like to become 'searchable'.

I noticed that after providing the "search" text box with a value that exists inside my module contents, nothing is displayed on the search result page. Furthermore, when i insert a breakpoint inside the GetSearchItems function and press the "search" button, the code does not stop at the breakpoint.

Is there something i am doing wrong?

Any help would be welcomed. 

Hi christoc,

thanx for your reply. I combined it with another post in order to come up with a solution.

The problem was that i hadn't figured out the search engine functional.

In short, The ISearchable::GetSearchItems implemented function is called only when you logon as the host, select the Search Admin menu item and cliclk on the Re-Index content command. Inside the GetSearchItems(), all the contents of my modules (that implement the ISearchable interface of course) are added to the search engine.

Note that, as a result, each time you add, edit or delete any content inside a module that supports the ISearchable interface, you have to Re-Index the content, in order for the search engine to be updated with the new search content items of your module.

Have a look at the steps here to setup the Isearchable class in your modules business rules:

http://www.adefwebserver.com/DotNetNukeHELP/ISearchable/

You then need update the module definition to include the name of the class you just created.

And lastly yo uneed to manually update the DesktopModules table to set the features you support.

UPDATE DesktopModules SET SupportedFeatures = 3 WHERE FriendlyName = 'MyModuleName'

Westa