Excluding an item/page from search or index

This is a generic situation most of Sitecore geeks face during their development work. Though, you may find several solutions over the internet, but what I am going to put here is the most simple and robust solution.

Just a checkbox and few lines of code and you are done. Let’s do it now.

1. add a checkbox field on the item template or on the base template ( your choice) , name it something meaningful like “ExcludeFromSearch” or “DoNotIndex”
2. Create a custom item crawler. see the code below
using Sitecore.ContentSearch;
using Sitecore.Data;
using Sitecore.Data.Items;
using System;
using System.Collections.Generic;
using System.Linq;
using System.Web;
namespace Learning.Framework.Search.Indexing.Crawler
{
public class CustomItemCrawler : SitecoreItemCrawler
{
protected override bool IsExcludedFromIndex(SitecoreIndexableItem
indexable, bool checkLocation = false)
{
var isExcluded = base.IsExcludedFromIndex(indexable, checkLocation);
if (isExcluded)
return true;
Item item = indexable;return (item[new ID(pass the checkbox field id here)] == "1") ? true: false;
}
protected override bool IndexUpdateNeedDelete(SitecoreIndexableItem
indexable)
{
var needDelete = base.IndexUpdateNeedDelete(indexable);
if (needDelete)
return true;
Item item = indexable;
return (item[new ID(pass the checkbox field id here)] == "1") ? true:
false;
}
}
}
3. Patch the above custom crawler to the config as shown below
4. Build the solution and publish to the server. Check the checkbox on whichever item you want to exclude/remove from search.
5. Once publish is done, rebuild the target index from control panel and you are done.

Note: There is a method in the above CustomItemCrawler , the method name is IndexUpdateNeedDelete

this is to delete the existing items/pages from the index.

I hope this post will help some of you.

Happy Coding !!!

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