Connect SmartHub to the Solr Search Engine

Note: Search engines in SmartHub are often referred to as "backends." You can consider the terms interchangeable.

How to Add and Configure a Solr Search Engine

You add a Solr search engine as an additional search engine to your SmartHub instance. This does not effect your Main search engine.

  1. Go to General Settings, Search Engine section and click on ADD NEW SEARCH ENGINE.

  2. Type: Select Regular.

  3. Search Engine: Select Solr.

  4. Modify the search engine configuration by entering your configuration settings into the Parameters field. See the following image and code example:

    Search Engine 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.
HighlightTagContent c0   HTML markup tag for highlighted content.

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 Tuning stages are added to your Solr search engine.

Note: These tuning stages are search engine-specific, not global.

These tuning stages only apply to your Solr search engine.

  1. After creating the Search Engine, multiple new Tuning stages are added:

    1. Under "Query Tuning"

      1. Property Mapper

      2. Range Facets

    2. Under "Results Tuning"

      1. Property Mapper