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Fundamentals of WCS' Public Site Search Infrastructure

Posted by Freddy Villalba on Thursday, September 15, 2016 - 10:31 Web Experience Management Lucene, solr, CacheUpdater, Indexing, Oracle WebCenter Sites, asset event listener, SystemEvent, daemon, queue, analyzer, customization

Webcenter Sites ships with Apache Lucene.

Apache Lucene drives:

  • Asset-oriented search within the Contributor UI. This is automatically set up by default on an standard install. Users can enable / disable it on a per asset type basis as needed.
  • Asset-oriented search through a WCS-driven website's search box (or any equivalent feature). Developers must implement website-specific search logic; WCS provides a very basic API for this purpose.

In this post, we will focus on the fundamental aspects regarding Lucene-driven asset-oriented search in WCS-...

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Why Solr?

Posted by Hani Atalla on Tuesday, March 3, 2015 - 12:25 Drupal solr, search api, Faceted Search
When it comes to setting-up search for a Drupal site, out-of-the-box Drupal comes with a primitive built-in search engine. The out-of-the-box search engine can be sufficient if we are running a Content Management System (CMS) for a small blogging site. There are some basic customization and ranking settings that can be tailored; e.g. add more weight to blogs with more comments or recently submitted blogs or content. And it is neat because Drupal search respects node access permissions.
 
But not all...
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