I am exploring our options to see if anyone else has found a solution.

I have already worked with Kentico Support on this issue. After about 25 emails back and forth, we still do not have a working solution. The issue is very simple but for some reason the search is complex which makes no sense. We keep thinking the search functionality that we desire should be basic out of the box functionality.

We have a document type, PolicyProcedure, that contains several fields. I will only mention the three most important fields.

1.) Company field - a drop down list of company names
2.) Category field - a drop down list of department/category names
3.) PDF file

We have been trying to create a search page that contains the following:

1.) Keyword Search text box
2.) Company drop down list
3.) Category drop down list
4.) Search button

We want to be able to enter a word in the Keyword Search text box, select a company, select a category and click the Search button. The Search routine should search all PolicyProcedure records for that keyword as well as search within the PDF files for that keyword. In addition, it will also only return records for the selected company and category.

After 25 emails with support, we still don't have a solution. We also looked at the examples in the Corporate Site template but those searches are different. At this point, we are trying to find someone else who has done this search because we can't be the only company that desires to be able to search all fields of a document type as well within any included PDF files.

Thanks.