Issue while retrieving component by Title through Core Service

Question

I am using following code to retrieve component by Title through core service in Tridion 2013 -

var compData = client.GetSearchResults(new SearchQueryData()
        {
            FromRepository = new LinkToRepositoryData() { IdRef="tcm:0-24-1" },//tcm id of publication
            IsTitleCaseSensitive = false,
            Title = "DemoComponent",//component title
            SearchInSubtree = false,
            ItemTypes = new ItemType[] { ItemType.Component},
            SearchIn = new LinkToIdentifiableObjectData() { Title = "DemoFolder", IdRef = "tcm:24-3251-2" }//name and tcm id of folder in which component resides
        });

This code returns null in compData instead of component, Am I missing something here ?

Answer 1

There is no issue with your code. But you can try this one (it is working fine for me) -

public string getcomponentid()
        {
            var client = Utility.GetCoreServiceSettings();
            string result = "Item not found";
            string TargetFolderTcmId = @"tcm:5-1945-2"; // Put your folder tcm id or Folder Webdav url here
            string title = @"Component Title";// Put your component title here

            var productsXML =
              client.GetListXml(TargetFolderTcmId,
              new OrganizationalItemItemsFilterData
              {
                  ItemTypes = new[] { ItemType.Component }
              });

            foreach (var product in productsXML.Elements())
            {
                string tcmID = product.Attribute("ID").Value;
                var productData = client.Read(product.Attribute("ID").Value, null) as ComponentData;
                // Check your title
                if (productData.Title == title)
                {
                    return tcmID;
                }
            }
            return result;
        }

Please Check the below url for more detail. https://justsayantan.wordpress.com/2015/07/07/retrieving-component-by-title-using-core-service/

Answer 2

When you search item and it is not returned which means that items are not getting indexed. There could be two issues:

1. Search is not properly configured. Please refer: Search configuration to fix any configuration issue.
2. With Tridion 2013, there is an issue with indexing. Please refer: Known issue with indexing

Please verify both to make sure there are no configuration issues.

For the time being, you can run following powershell commands to index the items manually:

1. Execute Sync-TcmSearchIndex on powershell to reindex all publication
2. Execute Sync-TcmSearchIndex with a TcmRepositoryIds parameter containing list of publication URIs if you want to re-index a set of publication or a specific publication

And to monitor the indexing status Get-TcmQueueInfo command which will give items remaining to be indexed.