USER MANUAL

Advance Search with

SOLR

Version: 0.1.1

Compatibility:

Magento Community Edition 1.4.*.* to 1.9.*.*

TABLE OF CONTENTS

Introduction ......................................................1

Benefits of Advance Search with SOLR ...........1

Installation & Activation ...................................2

Installation Steps...........................................2

Extension Activation .....................................4

How it Works?...................................................5

Back End Configuration ................................5

Front-End Features .......................................9

Points to Note ................................................ 12

Contact Us ...................................................... 13

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Introduction

AppJetty provides effective solution in the form of Advance Search with SOLR which is helpful for

entrepreneurs to improve search results of their e-store.

An ideal extension for customers which helps them to find exactly what they need. It helps to narrow

down and filter the search. SOLR boosts the search performance unlike Magento which takes more time

to give search results.

Benefits of Advance Search with SOLR

Helps to make product search more relevant and faster

Improves layered navigation of search results of your store

Support for spelling, synonyms and stop words

Increases performance and search relevancy

Helps customers to get more accurate results while searching about a product

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Installation & Activation

Installation Steps

Step 1: Check Permissions

Make sure the ‘‘app’’, ''skin'' and ''lib' 'directories of your Magento and all directories inside it

have full written permissions or set permissions on each directory equal to 777 or0777.

Important! Change all permissions back after installation.

Read more about permission at

www.magentocommerce.com/wiki/magentofilesystempermissions

Step 2: Disable Compilation

Log into Magento Admin Panel and go to System -> Tools -> Compilation and disable the

compilation.

After Step 5, you can run the compilation process again.

Step 3: Upload Files

Upload all folders from the extension package to the installation directory of your Magento

software using an FTP client.

Step 4: Clear cache

Go to System -> Cache Management. Clear the store cache.

Step 5: Re-login

Logout and log back into Magento Admin Panel.

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Step 6: Use Extension

Go to System -> Configuration. In the left column you will see the new tab called Biztech

Extensions / SOLR.

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Extension Activation

Get activation key

Copy the activation key from the Order Confirmation Mail. OR Login into your account at website

using the e-mail and password that you provided at checkout process.

Go to Downloadable Options and copy the activation key for the SOLR extension.

Activate your extensions

Log into Magento Admin Panel and go to System Configuration -> Biztech Extensions/Advance

Search With SOLR Activation and enter the activation key in the ‘Activation Key’ field for the

Advance Search With SOLR extension then click the ‘Save Config’

Select Websites

When you enter and save the key it will be verified and you can select the websites where you

need to use the SOLR extension. Click the 'Save Config' button after making your selections.

Now, SOLR Extension got activated! You just have to set configurations.

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How it Works?

Back End Configuration

Please follow the below steps to configure Advance Search with SOLR extension.

Go to System -> Configuration

In the left column you will see the tab Biztech Extensions -> SOLR. Now fetch SOLR data

from Magento admin panel by following below steps.

General Configuration

Enable: Enable the extension. This extension is disabled by default.

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In this tab, you can set basic configurations of SOLR Extension. Here is the brief description of the

configuration.

Hostname or IP: Specify host name or IP on which SOLR is installed. By default it will take as

localhost.

Port Number: Specify on which port SOLR will run. By default it will take port as 8983.

Path: Specify path which belongs to SOLR admin panel. By default it will take SOLR as

default path.

SOLR Data Config XML Path: Specify the path of data-config.xml.

SOLR Schema XML Path: Specify the path of schema.xml.

SOLR Admin URL: Specify admin panel URL of SOLR.

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SOLR Core: This is a running instance of Lucien index along with the entire SOLR

configuration required to use it.

Search Timeout (seconds): Specify number of seconds after which SOLR search timeout.

Authentication Required: Select yes if SOLR requires authentication to connect. Select No if

authentication not required.

Username: Enter username which requires connecting to SOLR.

Password: Enter password which requires connecting to SOLR.

Test Connection: Click on ‘Test Connection’ to test SOLR connection. Display success if

connection gets successful else it will display failed. Below is the result for the same.

SOLR Search Results

Maximum Number of Results: Specify number of records to be displayed per page.

Auto Correct Search Terms: Select yes to automatically correct the search words/terms.

No. of Auto complete Suggestions: Specify number of products to be displayed in auto

suggestion.

Enabled Category List Page: If selected yes then category list page will also come from solr. By

default it is set to No.

Product Attributes Booster

Data is instantly indexed when products are saved once, even after being removed by the admin

later on.

Product attributes to boost: Add the product attributes which you want to be given more

priority while searching.

The attributes having less search boost will be given the highest priority while

searching of the products.

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Facet Attributes to boost: Add number of attributes to be displayed in layered navigation.

Sorting Attribute: Attribute based on which you need to sort products in category list page

and search result page.

Indexed Data: Clicking on this button will re-index data of SOLR.

Product attributes to boost: Add number of attributes to be indexed in SOLR documents.

Facet Attributes to boost: Add number of attributes to be displayed in layered navigation.

Sorting Attribute: Attribute based on which you need to sort products in category list page and

search result page.

Indexed Data: Click on this button to re-index data of SOLR.

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Front-End Features

Expedites Search

Users can easily narrow down their search to a specific product or attribute.

Helps customers to simplify by narrowing down and expediting the product search.

Conditions Based Search

Search can be done based on multiple conditions like

No. of reviews received by a product

No. of images the product has

No. of products sold and many more

Auto Search

Offers auto search suggestions for customers so that they can select best matching term of their

search.

When a user types the first few letters of the word, tips of words drops down and a user sees a list

of words from catalog that best match to the products he wants to find.

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Layered Navigation

Search results are displayed in layered navigation based on multiple attributes of different

products.

Enables customers to shop by multiple attributes in a category.

Enables customers to filter search results by multiple attributes.

Allows showing attributes in a dropdown and multi-select.

Multi-select feature is not by default available in Magento. We have configured it for this

extension.

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Page Results

It displays search engine result page with the listing of no. of top results in single page.

For more information on Advance Search with Solr, please refer to

https://www.appjetty.com/magento-advance-search-with-solr.htm

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Points to Note

Products in all the modules of Advance Search with SOLR will only be visible if they are assigned to

the website selected while purchasing the Extension.

PHP version should be 5.3 above.

SOLR should be installed on server before using this extension.

Any change made in extension’s configuration and that should not reflect in front then need to

restart SOLR once.

Mentioned installation steps are for Windows only.

If SOLR is not installed on your server, contact us we will install this.

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Contact Us

We simplify your business, offer unique business solution in digital web and IT landscapes.

Customization: If you would like to customize or discuss about additional feature for Advance Search with SOLR, please

write to sales@appjetty.com

Tickets

Raise tickets for your specific question!

Send an email to support@appjetty.com

or you can login to your account @

www.appjetty.com and click on My Sup-

port Tickets on your account dashboard,

to get answers to your specific questions.

Live Chat

Get instant support with our Live Chat.

Visit our product page at:

https://www.appjetty.com/magento-

advance-search-with-solr.htm and click

on the Live Chat button for instant

support.