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| ====== Blended Search ====== | ====== Blended Search ====== | ||
| - | :!: Supported from VuFind | + | :!: Supported from VuFind® |
| ===== Introduction ====== | ===== Introduction ====== | ||
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| ===== Limitations ===== | ===== Limitations ===== | ||
| - | * Currently only basic search is supported. | + | * Advanced |
| * It is recommended to keep maximum number of results available for paging low, as merging results further from the beginning is a heavy process. | * It is recommended to keep maximum number of results available for paging low, as merging results further from the beginning is a heavy process. | ||
| * Blending the results is not a magic process, and relevance ranking works quite differently across platforms. There are settings available that affect blending of initial results, but currently it's mostly just round robin. | * Blending the results is not a magic process, and relevance ranking works quite differently across platforms. There are settings available that affect blending of initial results, but currently it's mostly just round robin. | ||
| + | * Many of the advanced options, such as full facet lists, are not supported. | ||
| ===== Prerequisites ===== | ===== Prerequisites ===== | ||
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| :!: It is strongly recommended to enable search caching for each backend to improve performance and reduce duplicated requests. See the [SearchCache] section for the relevant search configuration file for details. Using Memcached is recommended. | :!: It is strongly recommended to enable search caching for each backend to improve performance and reduce duplicated requests. See the [SearchCache] section for the relevant search configuration file for details. Using Memcached is recommended. | ||
| + | ===== Accessing Blended Search ===== | ||
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| + | '' | ||
| ===== Configuration ===== | ===== Configuration ===== | ||
| - | The following instructions assume that VuFind's local directory is '' | + | The following instructions assume that VuFind®'s local directory is '' |
| configuration files to be modified are under the '' | configuration files to be modified are under the '' | ||
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| There are several noteworthy features particularly with facet mappings: | There are several noteworthy features particularly with facet mappings: | ||
| - | * Facet mappings also work the other and define how active filters are mapped to each backend. You can also define fields that are only used e.g. with checkbox filters. | + | * Facet mappings also work the other direction |
| * If a backend does not support a filter value, that backend gets automatically disabled. If you wish to keep the backend active and just ignore such values, list the values under the '' | * If a backend does not support a filter value, that backend gets automatically disabled. If you wish to keep the backend active and just ignore such values, list the values under the '' | ||
| * If you're mapping a value to a hierarchical facet (those can be used with Solr), you can set '' | * If you're mapping a value to a hierarchical facet (those can be used with Solr), you can set '' | ||
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| ---- struct data ---- | ---- struct data ---- | ||
| + | properties.Page Owner : emaijala | ||
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configuration/blender.1650802039.txt.gz · Last modified: 2022/04/24 12:07 by demiankatz