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Integration of Elasticsearch as a search platform for Umbraco v7.3+

Primer

Umbraco.Elasticsearch is an Umbraco plugin designed to integrate your CMS with Elasticsearch. It is not designed to replace any built-in search features of Umbraco (Examine) and instead provides an independent point of search integration in which your CMS acts as the data source to your search index.

Umbraco.Elasticsearch is not an "install and forget" solution, to use it will be expected to have knowledge of the following:

• Develop custom code and logic within your Umbraco CMS, Umbraco.Elasticsearch is a code centric library
• How to extract node properties from Umbraco programmatically using IContent, IMedia and the ServiceContext services
• How to use the NEST Elasticsearch library to:
  • Define indexing document mappings via either the NEST attributes or the IElasticClient
  • Write search queries using the NEST fluent DSL within the Nest-Searchify library wrapper

Installing Umbraco.Elasticsearch does not instantly give you full-text search over your CMS content.