Removing CreatedBy and UpdatedBy from Episerver Find index

I found out of a coincidence that I could search on  the web editors name and get all pages they had created and updated.

This is a behavior that I did not want and I thought it was just to disable these fields from indexing in the Initialization module for the find functionality but I was mistaken.

It was no problem to remove the fields from the page data by adding this code to the Initialization module:

SearchClient.Instance.Conventions.ForInstancesOf<SolutionPageData>()
    .ExcludeField(x => x.CreatedBy)
    .ExcludeField(x => x.ChangedBy);

The problem comes when you have enabled indexing on content areas on pages. Blocks in content areas seems to magically get properties like CreatedBy and UpdatedBy when they gets indexed with a page. Blocks does not even have these properties in base model but in Find index they do.

I solved this problem by adding the properties CreatedBy and UpdatedBy in my SolutionBlockData class:

[Ignore]
public string CreatedBy { get; set; }

[Ignore]
public string ChangedBy { get; set; }

And I also disabled indexing of these fields in the Initialization module:

SearchClient.Instance.Conventions.ForInstancesOf<SolutionBlockData>()
    .ExcludeField(x => x.CreatedBy)
    .ExcludeField(x => x.ChangedBy);

Happy coding 🙂

/Philip