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Sunday, August 22, 2010

Using Coveo with Sitecore. Part 1: Indexing Sitecore items

Coveo Search Platform provides a Sitecore package with a module called "Sitecore Connector", which allows you to crawl not just pages, but also content items without presentation, media library, etc. While Connector configuration is described rather well in this document, there are lot of major points that are not enough clear to the programmer who starts using it.
There are lot of things to do with Coveo, so I'll break the whole story into the different blog posts:
  • Indexing Sitecore items - this post
  • Performing a query (Coveo controls and custom Query Wrappers)
  • Tips and Tricks (snippets, hidden features and real-world examples)

Let's begin from creating a Sitecore template that will contain different field types: