Blog: Suggest for Solr Search Dashboards

[Romain Rigaux]

Originally posted on http://gethue.com/suggest-for-solr-search-dashboards/

Hey Search users,

The upcoming Hue version supports Solr Suggester and makes your data easier to search! Suggester assists the user by proposing an auto-completable list of queries:

 Video: https://vimeo.com/161792073

 

We hope that you like the interactivity, and feel free to send feedback on the hue-user list or @gethue!

 

How-to

First grab a Solr 5, start it and make sure that it has a suggester configured:

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romain@unreal:$ ./bin/solr -e techproducts Waiting to see Solr listening on port 8983 [/]  Started Solr server on port 8983 (pid=23696). Happy searching!   Checked core existence using Core API command: http://localhost:8983/solr/admin/cores?action=STATUS&core=techproducts

Confirm that Solr has a suggester configured, here named mySuggester:

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http://127.0.0.1:8983/solr/#/techproducts/files?file=solrconfig.xml    <searchComponent name="suggest" class="solr.SuggestComponent">     <lst name="suggester">       <str name="name">mySuggester</str>       <str name="lookupImpl">FuzzyLookupFactory</str>            <str name="dictionaryImpl">DocumentDictionaryFactory</str>       <str name="field">cat</str>       <str name="weightField">price</str>       <str name="suggestAnalyzerFieldType">string</str>       <str name="buildOnStartup">false</str>     </lst>   </searchComponent>

 

then activate the suggester in the Hue Dashboard settings:

and see the help in the query box:

Hue Team