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b) Solr and Gsearch are installed (following the instructions in Chapter 9 - Enabling Indexing & Searching with Solr8 - Installing Solr and GSearch), and you have installed and activated the Solr module. The xslt and solrschema.xml documents that come packaged with the module should be used in configuration. These files are designed to work with our solution packs. Guidance for creating customizations to Solr are provided in the Customizing GSearch and Solr section.

What is Solr? And, why should I use it?

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By placing these blocks in regions of your site and configuring the Solr module under Islandora>Solr client, you can facilitate both full-text searching and faceted searching of items ingested using Solution Packs. The basic configuration of Solr can be modified to change the weight of search fields, and extend the out-of-the-box functionality. Information for doing this is provided in Chapter 7 - Customizing Islandora.

Configuring Solr out-of-the Box

In order for Solr to work for your collections, you will have to activate the blocks that you want, and configure them to display your desired results. The following instructions will show you how to configure Solr to work with solution packs. Additional information about installing Solr and how Islandora uses Solr is provided in Chapter 9 - Enabling Indexing & Searching with SolrInstalling Solr and GSearch. Additional information about customizing Islandora’s Solr Search Module is provided in Chapter 7 - Customizing Islandora.

1. Navigate to the Configuration Panel

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Here you can choose the search terms that will appear in the drop-down menus on the advanced search block. Terms must be entered by their field names (in most cases this will be Dublin Core), though you can optionally specify a more human-readable label with the configure option.To determine the appropriate syntax for your search terms, simply edit the metadata on any object in your repository (for instructions, see How to Edit an Object’s Metadata in Chapter 3 - Getting Started with Islandora). Each field label will display the proper syntax for adding it to your Solr search configuration. A full list of the terms made available by the schema provided in the module package is provided in APPENDIX D - SOLR SCHEMA (SEARCH) Term Reference. Note that you will want to use fields that have been indexed as “text” here.

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