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Search Overview Search is a fundamental component of Liferay. Elasticsearch is bundled with Liferay for testing and development purposes. Production environments require Elasticsearch running on a...

What's New in Search for 7.3?

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What's New in Search for 7.3? Elasticsearch Integration Elasticsearch 7 Support Liferay CE 7.3 GA4+, Liferay DXP 7.3 GA1+ Liferay DXP 7.3 comes with out-of-the-box support for Elasticsearch 7. The...

Elasticsearch Connector Configuration Reference

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Elasticsearch Connector Configuration Reference The configuration information here applies to the latest available (bundled or through Marketplace) version of the Elasticsearch 6 and Elasticsearch...

Elasticsearch

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Elasticsearch Elasticsearch is the highly scalable, full-text search engine Liferay uses by default. Elasticsearch is bundled with Liferay for non-production purposes. In production, Liferay...

Installing and Upgrading a Search Engine

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Installing and Upgrading a Search Engine A search engine is a critical component of your Liferay installation. Creating an Example Cluster can get you started with an Elasticsearch installation,...

What's New in Search for 7.4?

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What's New in Search for 7.4? There are several highlights and new features added to Liferay's search infrastructure for the 7.4 release. New features include those added to the product for Liferay...

Connecting to Elasticsearch

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Connecting to Elasticsearch After setting up Elasticsearch, connect it to Liferay using the Liferay Connector to Elasticsearch. Connection steps depend on the connector you're configuring. See...

Advanced Configuration of the Liferay Elasticsearch Connector

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Advanced Configuration of the Liferay Elasticsearch Connector The Elasticsearch connection is configured using a configuration file or via System Settings. The Elasticsearch connector has a lot of...

Exercise: Run Liferay and Elasticsearch Using Docker

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Exercise: Run Liferay and Elasticsearch Using Docker Liferay 7.3+ Here you can walk through a minimal Liferay-Elasticsearch setup on your local machine to see how a secure REST Client connection...

Getting Started with Elasticsearch

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Getting Started with Elasticsearch Compatibility: See the Search Engine Compatibility Matrix for details on the compatible Elasticsearch versions, available Liferay connectors, and required...

Securing Elasticsearch

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Securing Elasticsearch The very first thing you must do to secure Elasticsearch is enable X-Pack Security. After that you can begin configuring authentication and encrypted communication. ...

Installing Elasticsearch

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Installing Elasticsearch Here's how to install, configure, and start Elasticsearch on-premises. If you have Elasticsearch indexes used for primary data storage (storing data not backed by a...

Troubleshooting Elasticsearch Installation

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Troubleshooting Elasticsearch Installation Liferay and Elasticsearch are complex systems full of configurations. When connecting them, you can run into difficulty along the way. Included below are...

Troubleshooting the Elasticsearch Connection

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Troubleshooting the Elasticsearch Connection Listed here are some connection issues you can encounter when configuring the Liferay-Elasticsearch connection, along with the most common solutions to...

Troubleshooting Elasticsearch: Common Issues

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Troubleshooting Elasticsearch: Common Issues Listed here are some common issues you may encounter while configuring Elasticsearch and Liferay. Additional connection-specific errors are discussed in...

Upgrading Elasticsearch

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Upgrading Elasticsearch Liferay supports Elasticsearch 8. The compatibility matrix provides the latest support details. Elasticsearch 6.x is not supported on Liferay 7.3+. Before planning your...

Backing Up Elasticsearch

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Backing Up Elasticsearch Elasticsearch replicas protect against a node going down, but they won't help you with a catastrophic failure. Only good backup practices can help you then. Backing Up...

Upgrading to Elasticsearch 7

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Upgrading to Elasticsearch 7 7.1 and 7.2 Liferay's connection to Elasticsearch 7.17.x servers is deprecated due to the End of Life for Elasticsearch 7.17. Connecting to a deprecated Elasticsearch...

Installing a Search Engine

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Installing a Search Engine A search engine is a critical component of your Liferay installation. Creating an Example Cluster can get you started with the installation, but this guide demonstrates...

OpenSearch

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OpenSearch Subscription Required [Beta Feature](../../security-and-administration/administration/configuring-liferay/feature-flags.md) Elasticsearch is Liferay's native search engine. Beginning...

Installing Solr

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Installing Solr 7.2-7.3 (CE, DXP); 7.4 DXP U60+ Solr is a popular enterprise search platform built on Apache Lucene. It's reliable, scalable, and fault tolerant. Read more about it here. Solr is...

Solr

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Solr Solr is in maintenance mode in Liferay 7.4. Solr Limitations Installing Solr

OpenSearch Connector Configuration Reference

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OpenSearch Connector Configuration Reference Subscription Required [Beta Feature](../../../security-and-administration/administration/configuring-liferay/feature-flags.md) Configure Liferay's...

Solr Limitations

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Solr Limitations Liferay's Solr implementation has limitations. Some Liferay features and APIs cannot be used when you choose Solr as the search engine. Install Elasticsearch for the best...

Configuring an Example CCR Installation: Replicating Between Data Centers

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Configuring an Example CCR Installation: Replicating Between Data Centers Subscription [LES Subscription](./deactivating-liferay-enterprise-search.md) This example configures Liferay DXP's...

Configuring CCR in a Local Follower Data Center

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Configuring CCR in a Local Follower Data Center Subscription [LES Subscription](./deactivating-liferay-enterprise-search.md) First configure CCR in the remote/leader data center before following...

Troubleshooting Cross-Cluster Replication

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Troubleshooting Cross-Cluster Replication Subscription [LES Subscription](./deactivating-liferay-enterprise-search.md) Known common pitfalls encountered during the CCR setup are covered here, as...

Cross-Cluster Replication

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Cross-Cluster Replication Subscription [LES Subscription](./deactivating-liferay-enterprise-search.md) In a classic Liferay DXP/search engine installation, one Liferay DXP cluster talks to one...

Configuring CCR In a Remote Leader Data Center

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Configuring CCR In a Remote Leader Data Center Subscription [LES Subscription](./deactivating-liferay-enterprise-search.md) Ensure you have completed the necessary prerequisite steps before...

Configuring CCR: Settings Reference

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Configuring CCR: Settings Reference Subscription [LES Subscription](./deactivating-liferay-enterprise-search.md) To help with the CCR configuration process, the example configurations from the...

Learning to Rank

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Learning to Rank Subscription LES Subscription Search engines like Elasticsearch have well-tuned relevance algorithms, good for general search purposes. LES Learning to Rank harnesses machine...

Collections with Search Blueprints

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Collections with Search Blueprints When you create a search blueprint, you can enable it as a collection provider to display its results. Assets matching the blueprint's query and configuration are...

Collapsing Search Results

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Collapsing Search Results Liferay DXP 2023.Q4+/Portal GA102+ You can collapse search results that have identical keyword field values. For example, an internal blog titled Employee of the Month...

Creating and Managing Elements

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Creating and Managing Elements Elements are one of the fundamental building blocks of Search Blueprints and are managed within the Blueprints application. Open the Global Menu's Applications...

Creating Elements

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Creating Elements There are a lot of system Elements that ship with Search Blueprints. If none of the system Elements meets your needs, there are many ways to create your own Search Blueprints...

Predefined Element Variables Reference

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Predefined Element Variables Reference In the Element Source editor, place the cursor in the desired location and click the variable in the left hand sidebar to insert it. In the Custom JSON...

Managing Elements

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Managing Elements To create new Elements, click Add (Add). See Creating Elements for more details. As of Liferay DXP 2023.Q4+/Portal GA102+, the title and description fields are localizable. To...

Custom Element Examples

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Custom Element Examples Here are example elements that use custom fields and nested fields in their contributed query clauses. Using Custom Fields (Expando) in Elements You can add custom fields...

Creating and Managing Search Blueprints

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Creating and Managing Search Blueprints Create search blueprints to tailor the search experience to your users. You can find the search blueprints application in Global Menu (Global Menu) →...

Search Blueprints Configuration Reference

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Search Blueprints Configuration Reference The search blueprints user interface has a query builder for creating blueprints. Beyond adding elements and configuring the query settings, there are...