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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...

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...

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 custom code. With blueprints you can Create context-aware...

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]...

Personalizing the Search Experience

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Personalizing the Search Experience A premier use case for search blueprints is to personalize Liferay's search results. With a personalized search experience, users see results depending on the...

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) →...

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...

Creating a Search Blueprint for Semantic Search

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Creating a Search Blueprint for Semantic Search Subscription Once a model is selected and the text embeddings are indexed, you must configure Liferay to account for the embeddings at search time....

Setting Up a Text Embedding Provider

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Setting Up a Text Embedding Provider Subscription A text embedding provider has two jobs: At index time, use the specified model to create a text embedding representation of a text sample...

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...

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...

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 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...

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 Subscription 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 ...

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.

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 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...

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 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...

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...

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. ...

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...

Custom Filter Examples

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Custom Filter Examples This feature does not work with Solr. The Custom Filter widget is a powerful aid to your search tuning efforts. Without deploying custom code, you can exert control over...

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...

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...

Using the Search Results Widget

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Using the Search Results Widget Search results should be easy to navigate, sort, and filter. Give your users an optimal search experience by understanding the default search experience and the many...

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...

Configuring the Search Results Widget

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Configuring the Search Results Widget Configure the Search Results widget by opening its options menu (Options) and selecting Configuration. The display of Search Results is configured in the...

Enabling Search Suggestions

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Enabling Search Suggestions Search terms can be suggested to users when their initial queries can be improved. Spell check settings allow administrators to configure the Search application so that...

Search Results Behavior

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Search Results Behavior Previously, you learned how to display search results. There are additional Search Results concepts and configurations that can enhance your search results: Filtering...

Sorting Search Results

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Sorting Search Results Search results displayed in the Search Results widget are ordered by relevance score (as calculated by the search engine) by default. With the Sort widget, users can control...

Understanding Low Level Search Options

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Understanding Low Level Search Options Low level search works only with Elasticsearch. Low level search doesn't go through the Search and Indexing Framework, which is infrastructure used for...

Using the Custom Filter Widget

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Using the Custom Filter Widget This feature does not work with Solr. With Custom Filters, you can contribute queries to the main search query, filtering search results to control what's returned...

Using Search Widget Templates

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Using Search Widget Templates The default search widgets views are useful, but your site's widgets likely need a specific design. You can choose from one of the available widget templates or create...