Last week I was contacted by the Sitecore Shared Source coordinator Jimmie Overby and he told me that a guy in the Sitecore Ukraine office had made some changes to the Sitecore Lucene IndexViewer, I released some time ago. At first I was a bit sceptic about it, so I asked to review the code changes and see the new functionality. So I installed the new package and looked through the code, and I discovered that the Sitecore Ukranian Vyacheslav Tronko (don’t ask me to pronounce it:)) had done a fantastic job!
Not only had he added some very nice features but he had rewritten some of the code so the application is more stable and extendable. So I really appreciate his work!
The new features are:
- Possibility to browse indexes defined in the new search section in the web.config
- Rebuild indexes through the IndexViewer (which is really nice, as you can’t rebuild the new type of indexes any other way)
- Optimize indexes.
- Improved usability and look-and-feel of the application
So go take a look at the changes at http://trac.sitecore.net/IndexViewer
If you want to see some screenshots of the new features, take a look here
What I would like to add next, is extended search functionality.
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Hi Jens,
The IndexViewer 1.2 looks great! Thanks for building it.
I am having an issue with the Documents Tab however. In the Overview Tab, all of the fields show up in the Available Fields section, but when I go to view the individual documents, I only see 3 fields for all documents; _url, _group and _name. Have you encountered this issue?
My Index definition if below. Any help would be greatly appreciated!
[index id=”mySiteIndex” singleInstance=”true” type=”Sitecore.Search.Index, Sitecore.Kernel”]
[param desc=”name”]$(id)[/param]
[param desc=”folder”]__mySiteIndex[/param]
[Analyzer ref=”search/analyzer” /]
[locations hint=”list:AddCrawler”]
[master type=”Sitecore.Search.Crawlers.DatabaseCrawler, Sitecore.Kernel”]
[Database]master[/Database]
[Tags]master content[/Tags]
[Root]/sitecore/content/Web-Root/Home[/Root]
[include hint=”list:IncludeTemplate”]
[Template1]{DE7A6E21-2DF5-43BA-9E4E-7D3EAB1559A2}[/Template1]
[Template2]{D7EF58DD-AB59-444F-BC1B-9AAAE106B96B}[/Template2]
[Template3]{3107C4DF-3E20-4BFB-9DEA-821D8BB36B47}[/Template3]
[/include]
[/master]
[/locations]
[/index]