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Search Blueprints [LES Subscription](./deactivating-liferay-enterprise-search.md) DXP 7.4 U5+; 7.3 U6+ With Search Blueprints you can Make minor tweaks to Liferay's default search page behavior...

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...

Collections with Search Blueprints

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Collections with Search Blueprints [Release Feature](../../../security-and-administration/administration/configuring-liferay/feature-flags.md) When you create a search blueprint, you can enable it...

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...

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...

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...

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. Solr is in maintenance mode in Liferay 7.4. Elasticsearch 6.x is not...

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 Search Infrastructure

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Upgrading Search Infrastructure While upgrading Liferay, consider whether an Elasticsearch upgrade is required. The exact steps for upgrading depend on your existing search engine installation and...

Using the Sidecar or Embedded Elasticsearch

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Using the Sidecar or Embedded Elasticsearch Sidecar and embedded Elasticsearch are not suitable for production. When using an app server different other than Tomcat, set up a standalone...

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...

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...

Upgrading to Elasticsearch 8

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Upgrading to Elasticsearch 8 7.4 U81+, 7.3 U31+ Elasticsearch 8 is supported and recommended for the latest Liferay DXP Quarterly and Portal GA release out of the box. For specific version...

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...

Configuring CCR: Settings Reference

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Configuring CCR: Settings Reference To help with the CCR configuration process, the example configurations from the step-by-step instructions in this guide are collected here. These configuration...

Configuring CCR In a Remote Leader Data Center

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Configuring CCR In a Remote Leader Data Center Ensure you have completed the necessary prerequisite steps before following the steps below. This data center holds Liferay DXP cluster nodes with a...

Cross-Cluster Replication

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Cross-Cluster Replication Liferay Enterprise Search (LES) Subscribers In a classic Liferay DXP/search engine installation, one Liferay DXP cluster talks to one Elasticsearch cluster, sending all...

Troubleshooting Cross-Cluster Replication

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Troubleshooting Cross-Cluster Replication Known common pitfalls encountered during the CCR setup are covered here, as well as general troubleshooting techniques. For further troubleshooting, look...

Learning to Rank

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Learning to Rank Liferay Enterprise Search (LES) Subscribers Search engines like Elasticsearch have well-tuned relevance algorithms, good for general search purposes. LES Learning to Rank...

Deactivating Liferay Enterprise Search

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Deactivating Liferay Enterprise Search Starting with Liferay DXP 7.4 and in all quarterly releases, the Liferay Enterprise Search (LES) features are included out-of-the-box. You can begin using LES...

Monitoring Elasticsearch

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Monitoring Elasticsearch [LES Subscription](./deactivating-liferay-enterprise-search.md) If you have a Liferay Enterprise Search (LES) subscription, you can integrate Elastic's Kibana monitoring...

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...

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...

Creating and Managing Search Blueprints

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Creating and Managing Search Blueprints You can create Search Blueprints from the Global menu's Applications section → Search Experiences. If you already have a Blueprint and want to apply it's...

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...

Personalizing the Search Experience

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Personalizing the Search Experience One of the premier use cases for Search Blueprints is to personalize Liferay's search results. With a personalized search experience, each user sees results...

Sorting Results in a Search Blueprint

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Sorting Results in a Search Blueprint Add a sort configuration to search blueprints to control the order of search results: Open the Global Menu (Global Menu), click the Applications tab, and...

Using a Search Blueprint on a Search Page

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Using a Search Blueprint on a Search Page By default, a search page does not have a search blueprint associated with it. A blueprint must be applied to a search page to affect the Liferay search...

Semantic Search

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Semantic Search 7.4 U70+ [Beta Feature](../../security-and-administration/administration/configuring-liferay/feature-flags.md) Semantic search evaluates the intent behind a searched phrase....

Installing Search Experiences on Liferay 7.3

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Installing Search Experiences on Liferay 7.3 [LES Subscription](./deactivating-liferay-enterprise-search.md) DXP 7.4 U5+; 7.3 U6+ The Liferay Enterprise Search Experiences app includes a suite of...

Search Blueprints Elements Reference

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Search Blueprints Elements Reference Elements are one of the fundamental building blocks of a Search Blueprint. To explore all the available Elements, navigate to the Global Menu (Global) →...

Optimizing Search Response Size

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Optimizing Search Response Size In rare cases, an overly large search response can result in ERROR messages from the search engine: ERROR [http-nio-8080-exec-335][ElasticsearchIndexSearcher:165]...

Understanding Search Blueprints

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Understanding Search Blueprints Use Search Blueprints to tailor the search page experience to your users' needs, without deploying any custom code. With Blueprints you can Create context-aware...

Creating a Search Blueprint for Semantic Search

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Creating a Search Blueprint for Semantic Search 7.4 U70+ [Beta Feature](../../../security-and-administration/administration/configuring-liferay/feature-flags.md) Once a model is selected and the...

Setting Up a Text Embedding Provider

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Setting Up a Text Embedding Provider 7.4 U70+ [Beta Feature](../../../security-and-administration/administration/configuring-liferay/feature-flags.md) A text embedding provider has two jobs: At...

Search Administration and Tuning

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Search Administration and Tuning Search Administration Panel Overview Reindexing Modes Search Tuning Synonym Sets Result Rankings Troubleshooting Search Search Insights Troubleshooting...

Elasticsearch Indexes Reference

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Elasticsearch Indexes Reference Liferay 7.3 and 7.4 each have a set of indexes created in Elasticsearch. Understanding these indexes and what they do can help you better configure and administer...

Reindexing Modes

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Reindexing Modes Liferay DXP 2023.Q4+/Portal GA102+ Reindexing is refreshing all or part of the search index that's used for searching, and in some cases displaying, Liferay's content. Execute a...

Result Rankings

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Result Rankings Subscribers This feature does not work with Solr. Result Rankings are for changing the list of returned results for specific keywords. With Results Rankings you can Designate...

Search Administration

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Search Administration In Control Panel → Configuration → Search there are three administrative UIs: Connections, Index Actions, and Field Mappings. Connections shows you the search engines your...

Exploring Indexed Fields

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Exploring Indexed Fields Some search features can be configured if you know how to explore a search document's fields or inspect the search engine's field mappings. The available index fields can...

Search Configuration Reference

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Search Configuration Reference Search in Liferay DXP can be configured in lots of ways. Once you understand the concept of configuration scope, you'll understand where to find a certain...

Search Bar Suggestions Blueprints

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Search Bar Suggestions Blueprints Subscription 7.4 U36+ and GA36+ Search Bar Suggestions uses the regular search bar query by default. Liferay Enterprise Search users can influence or override the...

Custom Facet Examples

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Custom Facet Examples The custom facet is a powerful aid to customizing your site's search experience. When the out-of-the-box facets don't meet your requirements, the custom facet fills the gap....

Synonym Sets

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Synonym Sets Subscription This feature does not work with Solr. You can add a maximum of 10,000 synonym sets. A Synonym Set is a group of words or phrases with the same meaning. An...

Search Pages and Widgets

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Search Pages and Widgets Liferay's default search page is at . You can create your own page from scratch or reuse the existing page, adding or removing Search widgets as you like.

Configuring Search Bar Suggestions

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Configuring Search Bar Suggestions 7.4 U36+ and GA36+ Search Bar Suggestions adds search as you type functionality to Liferay's Search Bar widget. Select a result from the drop-down list or...

Search Bar Suggestions

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Search Bar Suggestions 7.4 U36+ and GA36+ Liferay's Search Bar Suggestions provides search as you type functionality. As you type search keywords into the Search Bar widget, the query is processed...

Search Facets

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Search Facets Enter a keyword in the Search Bar and click the Search button. The default search experience redirects to a page with results on the right and a collection of facets on the left. ...

Category Facet

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Category Facet The Category Facet narrows search results for categorized assets that match the search query keywords. Each matching result's categories are aggregated as facet terms. Example of...

Custom Facet

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Custom Facet The Custom Facet is unique among the out-of-the-box search facets. Rather than always grouping results by a single static field (like the modified date or the asset type), you can...

Modified Facet

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Modified Facet The Modified Facet narrows search results down to those that match the searched keyword and results that were created or modified during a certain time period. Example of modified...

Site Facet

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Site Facet The Site Facet narrows search results down to those existing in a certain site. Each site with content matching the searched keyword appears as a facet term. Example of Site facet...

Folder Facet

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Folder Facet The Folder Facet narrows search results down to content found in specific Asset Folders. Note that the search match is not for folder names but for content found in the folders. ...

Tag Facet

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Tag Facet The Tag Facet narrows search results for any assets with tags that match the search keyword. Each match appears as a facet term. Example of tag facet results. Configuring the Tag Facet...

Type Facet

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Type Facet The Type Facet narrows search results down to those associated with a certain Asset Type. Each Type with content matching the searched keyword appears as a facet term. Example of type...

User Facet

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User Facet The User Facet narrows search results down to those created by certain Users. Example of user facet results. Configuring the User Facet To configure the User Facet, open the Options...

Search Results

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Search Results Search Results Configuring the Search Results Widget Sorting Search Results Filtering Search Results Custom Filter Examples Enabling Search Suggestions Search Results...

Search Insights

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Search Insights This feature is intended for testing and development. The Search Insights Widget, when added to a Search Page, is for inspecting two things: The query string that's constructed...