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As you can see we added AddComputedIndexField to show how to add custom fields to the index, that runs c# code to generate the values. Lets focus on the computedField DynamicMetadata. With this one we can extract value for a specific metafield. Which metafield, is defined by the attribute metafieldGuid.

Her is an example of the data in solr:

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When adding a custom search index and be able to do dynamic search from the website. This requires that all the assets are synchronized into Sitecore. You can read about how to do a full synchronization here: DFS 11.0 - Synchronization.

If you want to trigger automatically rebuild of the new index, when the synchronization is done, then look at the pipeline DFS.BatchSync in App_Config\Include\damforsitecore\DFS.Pipelines.config. Change the indexName to your new index.

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Example of searching

Here is an example of how to search the index.
Give me all entries where assetId is not empty, no crop assets, only assets of assettype 4 (images) and last we freetext search the title.

var index = ContentSearchManager.GetIndex("dfs_contentsearch_master_index");
using (var searchContext = index.CreateSearchContext(SearchSecurityOptions.DisableSecurityCheck))
{
    var queryable = searchContext.GetQueryable<AssetResultItem>().Where(q => q.AssetId != string.Empty);
    queryable = queryable.Where(q => q.Derivedfrom == "0");
    queryable = queryable.Where(q => q.Assettype == "4");
    queryable = queryable.Where(q => q.Title.Contains(freeText));

    var res = queryable.GetResults();

    foreach (var searchResult in res)
    {
        renderList.assets.Add(new asset()
        {
            htmlTag = searchResult.Document.Thumbhtmltag,
            title = searchResult.Document.Title
        });
    }
}

Example of a website using the search.

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You can download all the configuration and c# files here:

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