From c80f2d4baa05b6815ba09431849019a24643711f Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: Sebastien Ros <sebastienros@gmail.com>
Date: Mon, 24 Aug 2015 12:03:49 -0700
Subject: [PATCH] Fixing Search settings export

---
 .../Orchard.Search/Drivers/SearchSettingsPartDriver.cs    | 8 ++++++--
 1 file changed, 6 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-)

diff --git a/src/Orchard.Web/Modules/Orchard.Search/Drivers/SearchSettingsPartDriver.cs b/src/Orchard.Web/Modules/Orchard.Search/Drivers/SearchSettingsPartDriver.cs
index cf5b0c8fc..8fe72d8d8 100644
--- a/src/Orchard.Web/Modules/Orchard.Search/Drivers/SearchSettingsPartDriver.cs
+++ b/src/Orchard.Web/Modules/Orchard.Search/Drivers/SearchSettingsPartDriver.cs
@@ -1,4 +1,5 @@
-using System.Collections.Generic;
+using System;
+using System.Collections.Generic;
 using System.Linq;
 using System.Xml.Linq;
 using Orchard.ContentManagement;
@@ -61,7 +62,10 @@ namespace Orchard.Search.Drivers {
         }
 
         protected override void Exporting(SearchSettingsPart part, ExportContentContext context) {
-            context.Element(part.PartDefinition.Name).Add(new XAttribute("SearchFields", part.Retrieve<string>("SearchFields")));
+            var searchFields = part.Retrieve<string>("SearchFields");
+            if(!String.IsNullOrWhiteSpace(searchFields)) {
+                context.Element(part.PartDefinition.Name).Add(new XAttribute("SearchFields", searchFields));
+            }            
         }
 
         protected override void Importing(SearchSettingsPart part, ImportContentContext context) {