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Limiting the Number of Search Results and Mitigating "Result window is too large." Errors when Using Elasticsearch via index.search.limit and index.max_result_window

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Every functionality that relies on search engine queries in Liferay can return a maximum of 10,000 results by default. This applies to Search Bar widget searches, search toolbar searches, search REST API usages, and...

Developer Guide

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Developer Guide Contributing Custom Content to the Similar Results Widget Search Queries and Filters Aggregations Model Entity Indexing APIs Search Headless APIs

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...

Cross Cluster Replication

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Cross Cluster Replication Cross Cluster Replication Configuring an Example Cross Cluster Replication Installation Configuring a Cross Cluster Replication in a Remote Leader Data Center ...

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...

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...

Solr

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Solr Solr is in maintenance mode in Liferay 7.4. Solr Limitations Installing Solr

Getting Started

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Getting Started

Working with Search Pages

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Working with Search Pages Search Pages Creating a Search Page Using a Search Page Template

Search

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Search

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Search You can use the search page to find content available on a Liferay site. This can be web content, knowledge base articles, documents, images, products, etc. The search page contains a search...

Users Not Appearing in Control Panel After Upgrading Liferay Version

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Issue Users are not appearing in the Control Panel > Users > Users and Organizations section after upgrading to a newer Liferay version. Environment Liferay DXP 7.0, 7.1 Resolution 1. Remove...

Sites/Groups Not Searchable in Out-of-the-Box Liferay

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Issue We do not see sites as an option while selecting different asset types in the Type Facet portlet as well as in Blueprint configuration. However, we can see in the Liferay source code that SiteAssetRendererFactory...

Blueprints Display External Reference Codes (ERC)

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Issue After updating Liferay, Blueprints configuration now displays External Reference Codes (ERC) next to the categories, sites and other elements. Environment 2024.Q4+ Resolution This change was implemented in...

Hindi Month Names Are Truncated in Search Results

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Issue After adding the JVM argument -Djava.locale.providers=CLDR, long month names in Hindi get truncated in search results. Example: "सितंबर 07, 2001" to "सितं 07, 2001" Environment Liferay DXP 2023.Q4 Resolution...

Search Blueprints feature is not shown in Liferay

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Issue According to this documentation, Search Blueprints, the Search Blueprints functionality is available in DXP 7.3 starting with Update 6. However, after installing DXP 7.3 Update 6, the Search Blueprints...

"Elasticsearch node search-1 does not meet the minimum version requirement of 7.16" when updating to u30

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Issue During our recent update to Update 30, the portal experienced an issue and did not start correctly. The logs show the following error: Elasticsearch node search-1 does not meet the minimum version requirement...

Search Overview

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Search Overview Search is a fundamental component of Liferay. Elasticsearch is bundled with Liferay for testing and development purposes. Production environments require Elasticsearch running on a...

Elasticsearch

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Elasticsearch Elasticsearch is the highly scalable, full-text search engine Liferay uses by default. Elasticsearch is bundled with Liferay for non-production purposes. In production, Liferay...

What's New in Search for 7.4?

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What's New in Search for 7.4? There are several highlights and new features added to Liferay's search infrastructure for the 7.4 release. New features include those added to the product for Liferay...

Getting Started with Elasticsearch

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Getting Started with Elasticsearch Compatibility: See the Search Engine Compatibility Matrix for details on the compatible Elasticsearch versions, available Liferay connectors, and required...

Exercise: Run Liferay and Elasticsearch Using Docker

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Exercise: Run Liferay and Elasticsearch Using Docker 7.3+ Here you can walk through a minimal Liferay-Elasticsearch setup on your local machine to see how a secure REST Client connection between...

Troubleshooting Elasticsearch Installation

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Troubleshooting Elasticsearch Installation Liferay and Elasticsearch are complex systems full of configurations. When connecting them, you can run into difficulty along the way. Included below are...

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 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...

OpenSearch

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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 OpenSearch

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Installing OpenSearch Subscription Required [Beta Feature](../../../security-and-administration/administration/configuring-liferay/feature-flags.md) You can connect OpenSearch with Liferay. For...

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...

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...

Configuring an Example CCR Installation: Replicating Between Data Centers

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Configuring an Example CCR Installation: Replicating Between Data Centers Liferay Enterprise Search (LES) Subscribers This example configures Liferay DXP's Cross-Cluster Replication module and...

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...

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...

Search Blueprints

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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...

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 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...

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...

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]...

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 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...

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...