At the time of the conversion there wasn’t a lot of search results coming up to help with how to migrate from Sitecore’s scSearchContrib’s query syntax to Sitecore 7’s out of the box implementation with Sitecore.ContentSearch. The migration wasn’t hard but I thought this post might provide a good starting point for those doing something… Continue reading Sitecore upgrade from 6.5 to 7 – search code migration (scSearchContrib, FieldSearchParam, DateRangeSearchParam)

In our project we had half a dozen dynamic fields that needed to be migrated from the scSearchContrib way of defining dynamic fileds to the Sitecore 7 way. This post from John West paved the path for conversion: http://www.sitecore.net/Learn/Blogs/Technical-Blogs/John-West-Sitecore-Blog/Posts/2013/03/Sitecore-7-Computed-Index-Fields.aspx Note the highlighted common code between the before and after code snapshots below: The code went… Continue reading Sitecore upgrade from 6.5 to 7 – scSearchContrib DynamicFields