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Sitecore.ContentSearch Search by Field Value

How do I get a sitecore item in Sitecore 7.2 by its field (of type droptree) value using Sitecore.ContentSearch?

I've tried: context.GetQueryable<SearchResultItem>().FirstOrDefault(resultItem=>resultItem["Field Name"]=="{76036F5E-CBCE-46D1-AF0A-4143F9B557AA}"); but no luck. Any tips?

Solution

  • Guids get indexed in a normalized format (lower case, no hyphens or braces). So if you want to search in this way, I think you need to normalize your search term.

    See the 'slightly complex queries' section of this blog post: http://www.xcentium.com/blog/2013/11/05/sitecore-7-linq-to-sitecore-simplified-part-1

    By the way, if you do your query using a mapped POCO's rather than SearchResultItem then you can avoid having to manually do that normalization.