Connect SmartHub to the Solr Backend

How to Add and Configure a Solr Search Backend

You add a Solr backend as an additional backend to your SmartHub instance.

This does not effect your main backend.

1. Go to General Settings, Backends section and click on Add New Backend.
   

2. Modify the Backend configuration by entering your configuration settings into the Parameters: field. See the following example code.
   
   Backend Configuration Example
   

   Parameters XML

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   <configuration>    
       <settings>        
           <setting Name='ServerAddress' Value='http://localhost:8983' />        
           <setting Name='Collection' Value='index' />        
           <setting Name='HighlightSummaryProperty' Value='title' />        
           <setting Name='timeout' Value='30' />    
       </settings>
   </configuration>

Parameters

Use the following table to set your parameters shown in the XML code above:

Parameter	Default Value	Required?	Description
ServerAddress	http://localhost:8983	Yes	The URL of your Solr service instance.
Collection	documents	Yes	Index Collection.
Timeout	30	No	Specify the configurable timeout of the search. Note: If the search takes longer than 30 seconds, the search is canceled.
HighlightSummaryProperty	body		Highlight Summary property.
AnalyzedFieldSuffix		No	The suffix that is appended to the field name whenever search operations have to be done on the analyzed version of the field.

Pipeline Stages

The following Pipeline stages are added to your Solr backend.

• These pipeline stages only apply to your Solr backend.

1. After creating the Backend, multiple new Pipeline stages are added:

   1. Under "Query Pipeline Stages"

      1. Property Mapper

      2. Range Facets

   2. Under "Results Pipeline Stages"

      1. Property Mapper