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pubic class Searcher
{
    var searchIndex = ContentSearchManager.GetIndex("MySearchIndex"); // Get the search index
    var searchPredicate = BuildSearchPredicate(searchRequest); // Build the search predicate 
    
    using (var searchContext = searchIndex.CreateSearchContext()) // Get a context of the search index
    {
        var searchResults = searchContext.GetQueryable<SearchModel>().Where(searchPredicate); // Search the index for items which match the predicate
    }          
}

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var searchFacets = searchContext.GetQueryable<SearchModel>().Filter(searchPredicate).FacetOn(x => x.Category).GetFacets();
var categoryFacets = searchFacets.Categories.Where(x => x.Name == "categoryfacet").FirstOrDefault();
var facets = new List<SearchFacet>();

if(categoryFacets != null)
{
    foreach (var facet in categoryFacets.Values)
    {
        facets.Add(new SearchFacet
        {

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<fieldMap type="Sitecore.ContentSearch.FieldMap, Sitecore.ContentSearch">
<fieldNames hint="raw:AddFieldByFieldName">
  <field fieldName="categoryfacet" storageType="YES" indexType="TOKENIZED" vectorType="NO" boost="1f" type="System.String" settingType="Sitecore.ContentSearch.LuceneProvider.LuceneSearchFieldConfiguration, Sitecore.ContentSearch.LuceneProvider">
    <Analyzer type="Sitecore.ContentSearch.LuceneProvider.Analyzers.LowerCaseKeywordAnalyzer, Sitecore.ContentSearch.LuceneProvider" />
    </field>
</fieldNames>
</fieldMap>

<fields hint="raw:AddComputedIndexField">
<field fieldName="categoryfacet" storageType="yes" indexType="untokenized"

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public static Expression<Func<SearchModel, bool>> GetSearchPredicate(string searchTerm, string type)
{
    var predicate = PredicateBuilder.True<SearchModel>(); // Items which meet the predicate
            
    // Search the whole phrase - LIKE
    predicate = predicate.Or(x => x.DispalyName.Like(searchTerm)).Boost(1.2f);
    predicate = predicate.Or(x => x.PageDescription.Like(searchTerm)).Boost(1.2f);

    // Search the whole phrase - CONTAINS
    predicate = predicate.Or(x => x.DispalyName.Contains(searchTerm)).Boost(2.0f);

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namespace MyProject
{
    public class IndexType : IComputedIndexField
    {
        /// <inheritdoc />
        public string FieldName { get; set; }
        /// <inheritdoc />
        public string ReturnType { get; set; }

        /// <inheritdoc />

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public class IndexPDF : IComputedIndexField
{
    /// <inheritdoc />
    public string FieldName { get; set; }
    /// <inheritdoc />
    public string ReturnType { get; set; }

    /// <inheritdoc />
    public object ComputeFieldValue(IIndexable indexable)
    {

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var searchIndex = ContentSearchManager.GetIndex("MySearchIndex"); // Get the search index
var searchPredicate = GetSearchPredicate(searchTerm); // Build the search predicate

using (var searchContext = searchIndex.CreateSearchContext()) // Get a context of the search index
{
    var searchResults = searchContext.GetQueryable<SearchModel>().Filter(searchPredicate); // Search the index for items which match the predicate

    // This will get all of the results, which is not reccomended
    var fullResults = searchResults.GetResults();

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public static Expression<Func<SearchModel, bool>> GetSearchPredicate(string searchTerm)
{
    var predicate = PredicateBuilder.True<SearchModel>(); // Items which meet the predicate

    // search logic cut down
    predicate = predicate.Or(x => x.DispalyName.Like(searchTerm)).Boost(60);

    // Only show items which are not excluded from search
    predicate = predicate.And(x => x.ExcludeFromSearch == false);

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<!--exclude from search-->
  <field fieldName="exclude from search" storageType="YES" indexType="TOKENIZED" vectorType="NO" boost="1f" type="System.Boolean"
          settingType="Sitecore.ContentSearch.LuceneProvider.LuceneSearchFieldConfiguration, Sitecore.ContentSearch.LuceneProvider"
          patch:after="field[last()]" />
<field fieldName="exclude_from_search" storageType="YES" indexType="TOKENIZED" vectorType="NO" boost="1f" type="System.Boolean"
          settingType="Sitecore.ContentSearch.LuceneProvider.LuceneSearchFieldConfiguration, Sitecore.ContentSearch.LuceneProvider"
          patch:after="field[last()]" />
</fieldNames>

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<fields hint="raw:AddComputedIndexField">
   <field fieldName="childcontent" storageType="yes" indexType="untokenized"
    patch:after="field[last()]">MyNamespace.IndexChildContent, MyNamespace</field>
</fields>