Recently I ran into a familiar lucene exception within my sitecore solution. Its lucene’s TooManyClauses exception. In fact the exception occures when there are more then 1024 where clauses in your query. That seems a lot but by using a wildcard query for example lucene is translating your wildcard query into a lot of where clauses after analyzing it. Offcourse the first step is to take a good look at your query and if possible try to rewrite. After that it’s possible More Info »

Last week I gave a webinar (in Dutch) about Lucene. During the webinar I showed how to create indexes, a custom crawler and showed some basic search logic. The video is posted below. The sample code used will be available in a short while. Want to receive a reminder when sample code is published? Subscribe to the RSS feed, maillinglist (in the right sidebar) or follow us on Twitter; @new_guid