Category: Coveo

Integrating Sitecore website with Coveo rapidly

In the previous blogs, we saw how to install and configure Coveo, troubleshoot, and diagnostics.

https://madhuanbalagan.com/install-and-configure-coveo-for-sitecore

https://madhuanbalagan.com/coveo-for-sitecore-troubleshooting-and-diagnostics

Now that Coveo is installed and ready to use, Let us add a Sitecore website to our instance of Coveo.

In the Coveo Admin Console, we can see that there is already a Coveo Master, and Web indexes are added by using the Sitecore Package Installation.

In this blog, I am showing an approach without any installation or configuration on the Sitecore Instance. This approach can be used with any non-Sitecore websites as well.

Let’s add the Sitecore website as a web source of content.

We have lots of options to choose from let us focus on web for now.

Here I’m adding my blog as a Source for our demo.

As soon as adding website name, it recognizes and shows the Sitemap URL and recommends adding it for better performance.

After adding the Sitemap URL, Coveo has a few configurations like Authentication and Content security.

Since the blog is public-facing no security configuration would be needed.

Now add and build the source to populate the index. It might take time depending on the number of pages on the site.

When it’s completed it will turn green and show the number of items in the index and the size.

Now that the Index is built, let’s navigate to Content Browser to see if our pages show up.

Navigate to the content browser and search for a term.

Voila! It works! Now you could integrate Coveo search on your site with a preferred approach.

Hope this helps.

Happy Sitecoring!

December 14, 2023

Coveo / Sitecore

Coveo for Sitecore: Troubleshooting and Diagnostics

Coveo’s Diagnostics page is super helpful when troubleshooting any Coveo issues. It is listed in the Coveo Search menu in the Sitecore control panel or can be reached directly with the following url –

https://[CMS Site]/sitecore modules/web/coveo/admin/coveodiagnosticpage.aspx

Coveo for Sitecore components state

This section shows the status of all services related to Coveo. Here is the healthy state, but when it errors it shows the detailed error message

Healthy Component State

Errors in Component State

Coveo for Sitecore version information

It comes in handy for checking Coveo and Sitecore versions and their compatibility.

Current Coveo for Sitecore version: 5.0.1153.1

Current Sitecore version: 10.2.0.6766

Compatibility status: these versions are compatible

Coveo for Sitecore organization information

This section is about the Organization and it is usage details.

Coveo for Sitecore configuration files

Basically shows all Coveo-related config files that are currently loaded in the system.

Coveo for Sitecore published items

It shows if the Coveo-related Sitecore items are published or not, it’s time to publish them 🙂

Coveo for Sitecore Indexing test

This section comes into handy when indexing an item or a path, really helpful when an Item has been published but it’s not available in the Coveo index.

Coveo for Sitecore log viewer

This section is my favorite – I typically use it on Production environments to view the logs when we don’t have access to the server or without logging into the Production servers. We can quickly view the log and troubleshoot the issues.