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Published Jul. 2, 2025

Adding custom Spell checker and Query suggestions for languages that do not have them by default

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Dávid Hegedüs

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Issue

  • You might want to enable the spell checking and suggestion feature in your 'Search Portlet' but the language you wish to use does not have them by default.

Environment

  • Liferay DXP 7.x

Resolution

  • Create a simple .txt file with all the words you would like to add
  • As an example for the German language add the following properties in your portal-ext.properties:
    company.default.locale=de_DE
    locales.enabled=de_DE
    locales=de_DE,en_US
    index.search.spell.checker.dictionary[de_DE]=spellchecker/de_DE.txt
    index.search.spell.checker.supported.locales=en_US,de_DE
    index.search.query.suggestion.dictionary[de_DE]=querysuggestions/de_DE.txt
    index.search.query.suggestion.enabled=true
  • Place the created .txt file to the path that you configured, in the example the complete path is:
    [Liferay_Home]/[Tomcat_Home]/webapps/ROOT/WEB-INF/classes/spellchecker/
    [Liferay_Home]/[Tomcat_Home]/webapps/ROOT/WEB-INF/classes/querysuggestions/

 

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