Deliver a more robust search with Search API and Solr

Example Solr search site repository

Drupal’s core search can only take you so far. In this session we will talk about what it takes to ramp up the search functionality of your site by using Search API and Solr. We can achieve this with the addition of a few modules, configuration adjustments, and the set-up of a view. We will take you from with getting a plan in place all the way through to monitoring your site’s search usage and looking for ways to make improvements.

What we will cover in the session:

• Get a game plan! Discover the goals and intent of your search feature.

• Overview of what you tools you will need for Drupal and your hosting environment.

• Review the set-up of Search API.

• How to set-up a view for returning search results.

• Keyword highlighting.

• Discuss facets and filtering results to enhance the user experience.

• Review some examples of facets using taxonomies, locations, and dates with no programming needed.

• Paragraphs and entities… What do we do about those wonderful features and how do we get them to play nice with a Search API.

• How can we get more relevant results for our search.

• Ideas for monitoring how the search is being used.

Who should attend:

• Site Builders & Developers

• Project manager / owners who would like to know what it takes to implement this kind of feature