Stuart, first thing I'd do is go to the Host/Scheduler and take a look at the Search indexing job, see if it has run recently. If so, make sure it is marked as True for completing.

Other things you can do is check out the SearchItem table, see if there are any items in there that look like your Publish content.

Let me know what you find.

The blog post can be found here.

I believe there is also a fix in DNN 4.8.2, so if you can upgrade you might check that out when it releases.

As for your search issues.

First thing to check, in the DNN database there is a DesktopModules table, find the entries for Engage: Publish (there should be 3 if you're on Publish 5.0) Check the "IsSupportedFeatures" column for those three, let me know what the values are.

Any chance you can upgrade your version of Publish?

Do you have any errors in your event viewer (logged in as host) that might show problems occuring with the search indexing?

Stuart, all our modules come with a year of free upgrades, so you can upgrade to 5.0.1 at no cost!

Just email me a copy of your receipt and I will setup your profile here on engagemodules.com to have access to the downloads. chammond @ engagesoftware.com

It won't take but a minute, and upgrading is easy.

If the upgrade doesn't fix your problem I will gladly continue to track this down and get your search indexing working.

Thanks for your help with the upgrade. I have 5.01 installed.  

I manually triggered a re-index and received this error:

AssemblyVersion: 04.07.00
PortalID: 0
PortalName:
UserID: 1
UserName: host
ActiveTabID: 29
ActiveTabName: Search Admin
RawURL: /Host/Search Admin/tabid/29/portalid/0/Default.aspx
AbsoluteURL: /Default.aspx
AbsoluteURLReferrer: http://wwwtest.clac.ca/Host/Search%20Admin/tabid/29/portalid/0/Default.aspx
UserAgent: Mozilla/4.0 (compatible; MSIE 7.0; Windows NT 5.1; .NET CLR 1.1.4322; .NET CLR 2.0.50727)
DefaultDataProvider: DotNetNuke.Data.SqlDataProvider, DotNetNuke.SqlDataProvider
ExceptionGUID: ecf7b4a5-fd18-46b4-80ff-cd07da1acc13
InnerException: Invalid object name 'dbo.Venexus_BrainDump'.
FileName:
FileLineNumber: 0
FileColumnNumber: 0
Method: System.Data.SqlClient.SqlConnection.OnError
StackTrace:
Message: System.Data.SqlClient.SqlException: Invalid object name 'dbo.Venexus_BrainDump'. at System.Data.SqlClient.SqlConnection.OnError(SqlException exception, Boolean breakConnection) at System.Data.SqlClient.SqlInternalConnection.OnError(SqlException exception, Boolean breakConnection) at System.Data.SqlClient.TdsParser.ThrowExceptionAndWarning(TdsParserStateObject stateObj) at System.Data.SqlClient.TdsParser.Run(RunBehavior runBehavior, SqlCommand cmdHandler, SqlDataReader dataStream, BulkCopySimpleResultSet bulkCopyHandler, TdsParserStateObject stateObj) at System.Data.SqlClient.SqlCommand.FinishExecuteReader(SqlDataReader ds, RunBehavior runBehavior, String resetOptionsString) at System.Data.SqlClient.SqlCommand.RunExecuteReaderTds(CommandBehavior cmdBehavior, RunBehavior runBehavior, Boolean returnStream, Boolean async) at System.Data.SqlClient.SqlCommand.RunExecuteReader(CommandBehavior cmdBehavior, RunBehavior runBehavior, Boolean returnStream, String method, DbAsyncResult result) at System.Data.SqlClient.SqlCommand.InternalExecuteNonQuery(DbAsyncResult result, String methodName, Boolean sendToPipe) at System.Data.SqlClient.SqlCommand.ExecuteNonQuery() at Microsoft.ApplicationBlocks.Data.SqlHelper.ExecuteNonQuery(SqlConnection connection, CommandType commandType, String commandText, SqlParameter[] commandParameters) at Microsoft.ApplicationBlocks.Data.SqlHelper.ExecuteNonQuery(String connectionString, CommandType commandType, String commandText, SqlParameter[] commandParameters) at Microsoft.ApplicationBlocks.Data.SqlHelper.ExecuteNonQuery(String connectionString, String spName, Object[] parameterValues) at Engage.Dnn.Publish.Data.SqlDataProvider.UpdateVenexusBraindump(Int32 itemId, String indexTitle, String indexContent, String indexWashedContent, Int32 portalId, String indexUrl) at Engage.Dnn.Publish.Search.SearchProvider.SearchArticleIndex(DataTable dt, SearchItemInfoCollection items, ModuleInfo modInfo) at Engage.Dnn.Publish.Search.SearchProvider.AddArticleSearchItems(SearchItemInfoCollection items, ModuleInfo modInfo) at Engage.Dnn.Publish.Search.SearchProvider.GetSearchItems(ModuleInfo ModInfo) at DotNetNuke.Services.Search.ModuleIndexer.GetSearchIndexItems(Int32 PortalID)
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