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Indexing Islandora Fedora and Drupal Content in the same Solr index allows sites to simplify searching for end users by allowing them to search all content from one search interface. To search across Drupal and Fedora content you will have to modify your solr schema.xml and you will also need to update the Islandora Solr search results to make them aware of Drupal content, there are a couple of ways to modify the results but they will involve some code modifications.

You will also need to install the Drupal Apache Solr module (https://drupal.org/project/apachesolr).  The Drupal Apache Solr module installation says to copy it's its Solr configuration files to the Solr configuration directory, . Do not do this as you will be overwriting your existing Islandora Solr configuration.  Instead update the existing schema.xml file with the required Drupal fields (it's good practice to backup any files before you edit them if they are not already under a vcs, even better try it on a dev/test install first).

This section assumes you already have the Islandora Solr module configured to search Fedora content and Gsearch configured to index Fedora content.  We are also assuming you will continue to use the Islandora Solr module to view the search results.

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Once you have Solr configured properly and restarted you can install and configure the Apache Solr module in your Drupal site configuration section (see .  See https://drupal.org/project/apachesolr for more information).  Basically you just download it and enable as you would any other module.  You've already modified the schema.xml so you don't need to do anything with schemal.xml.

At this point if everything is configured properly you should see some Drupal content in your solr index, if you don't see any Drupal content you may have to wait for cron to run or you can force the module to index content from the modules config interface (admin/config/search/apachesolr).

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Islandora will not know how to properly display a result created from a Drupal node so you will either have to add a custom Islandora Solr display profile or use the theme layer to preprocess the results, there are examples of creating a custom display profile in the islandora_solr_module.

To modify results in your theme you could create a function called themename_preprocess_islandora_solr(&$variables). In this function you could check for a field that will only exist with drupal content, for instance bundle_name, and if it is not empty you could modify the thumbnail and the url used to link back to the content.

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function bartik_preprocess_islandora_solr(&$variables) {
	$results = &$variables['results'];
		foreach ($results as &$result) {
			if (!empty($result['solr_doc']['bundle_name'])) {
			$path = url('http://aurltothethumbnail'); //could check bundle for type and link to thumbnail for each type
			$options = array('html' => TRUE);
			$options['attributes']['title'] = $result['solr_doc']['label'];
			$image = theme('image', array('path' => $path));
			$key$result['thumbnail'] = l($image, $result['solr_doc']['url']['value'], $options);
		}
	}
}

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Multi-site

If you are using a Drupal multi-site setup and you have more than one Drupal site's content in Solr you will probably want to filter on the site field or the hash field to limit results to just the drupal site you are viewing. This can be done in the Islandora Solr Settings -> Query defaults config page or you can setup a custom request handler in the solrconfig.xml.

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