Hello 

Today's blog post provides a short description of the tasks that need to carried out for Web Search Configuration.

How to add an entity like Variant

• Remove the previous entity.parent configuration like:

entity.Article.parent=Product2G 

• Add the following entity configuration:

entity.Article.parent=Variant 

entity.Variant.pageable=true 

entity.Variant.parent=Product2G 

entity.Variant.subentities=VariantLang,VariantSales 

• rebuild the index with PIM - Desktop

How to add further entity fields

• open the repository and copy & paste the right entity-, subentity- and fieldname.
• Add the correct entity-, subentity- and fieldname and add some Solr field attributes to the configuration.

Example:
 

field.Article.ManufacturerName.searchable= true

field.Article.ManufacturerName.facetable=true 

field.Article.ManufacturerName.facetordervalue=-1 

field.Article.ManufacturerName.type= infotext

field.Article.ManufacturerName.sortable= true 

• After that you have to rebuild the index.
• Look to the log file, located in: /log (or defined in /configuration.properties), if the index has been build.
• If the index was not built successful, check the index configuration, and repet the index build.

How to make fields sortable

Add to the field definition:

field.[entityname].[fieldname].searchable= true
and
field.[entityname].[fieldname].sortable= true

How to add facets

Add to the field definition:
 

field.[entityname].[fieldname].facetable=true

field.[entityname].[fieldname].facetordervalue= <a number>

How to add attributes

Add:
 

attributeprovider.[entityname].[entityname]Attribute.namesourcefields=[entityname].[entityname]

AttributeLang.Name(${language}),[entityname]Attribute.Unit attributeprovider.[entityname]. [entityname]

Attribute.valuesourcefields=[entityname]AttributeValue.Value(${language}) attributeprovider.search.ignoreAttributesWithValues=no,false,0

with 

[entityname] = article, variant or product2g

How to change Web Search REST port

• Change port in the configuration.properties file: Setup Web Search Configuration 
• Change fulltextsearch.properties file for PIM Core: Setup Configuration for PIM - Core 
• Change webfrontend.properties file for PIM - Web: Setup Configuration for PIM - Web 

How to change PIM Service API credential in Web Search

You have to change the credential in each index configuration:
 

dataprovider.hostresturl=http://localhost:1501/rest 

dataprovider.user=restuser

dataprovider.password=restpwd 

dataprovider.type=HPMRestAPI 

How to change log4j configuration files

Logging data output is implemented with log4j and can be configured for application server (tomcat) related logging information and Web Search related logging information.

The log files are located by default in:

• <WebSearchInstallationRoot>\log\server.log
• <WebSearchInstallationRoot>\<tomcat-server>\logs

The log4j configuration file are located in:

<WebSearchInstallationRoot>\<tomcat-server>\lib\log4j.xml

<WebSearchInstallationRoot>\<tomcat-server>\conf\logging.properties