Searching with a multilist field in Lucene.NET

Question

I am using Sitecore and the Lucene.NET for indexing content.

While performing the search lucene does not give the results from the multilist field.

Answer 1

I recommended you take a look at Alex Shyba's Advanced Database Crawler which does a good job at using Lucene.NET with Sitecore. Here's a blog post on his blog introducing this new tool.

Also, take a look at his post on an issue with Treelist fields not registering links to other items. I also used a multilist (treelist to be specific) field for the scenario you mentioned and this trick seemed to help. My question to him actually may have spurred his blog post as he emailed me the trick then posted it. This may or may not help you depending on how you're integrating Sitecore and Lucene.NET.

Note : depending on the version of Sitecore you're using, the Link Database might need to get updated to handle these multilist associations to other items. Alex also has another blog post on code to help with that .