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Elasticsearch Connector Configuration Reference

Elasticsearch Connector Configuration Reference The configuration information here applies to the latest available (bundled or through Marketplace) version of the Elasticsearch 6 and Elasticsearch...

What's New in Search for 7.3?

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What's New in Search for 7.3? Elasticsearch Integration Elasticsearch 7 Support Liferay CE 7.3 GA4+, Liferay DXP 7.3 GA1+ Liferay DXP 7.3 comes with out-of-the-box support for Elasticsearch 7. The...

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...

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...

Connecting to Elasticsearch

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Connecting to Elasticsearch After setting up Elasticsearch, connect it to Liferay using the Liferay Connector to Elasticsearch. Connection steps depend on the connector you're configuring. See...

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...

Liferay Enterprise Search

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Liferay Enterprise Search Liferay's Enterprise Search (LES) features significantly upgrade the default search capabilities. With a LES subscription you gain the following benefits: Search...

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 ...

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...

Configuring CCR in a Local Follower Data Center

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Configuring CCR in a Local Follower Data Center First configure CCR in the remote/leader data center before following the steps below. The local/follower data center holds Liferay DXP cluster...

Configuring CCR In a Remote Leader Data Center

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Configuring CCR In a Remote Leader Data Center Ensure you have completed the necessary prerequisite steps before following the steps below. This data center holds Liferay DXP cluster nodes with a...

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...

Cross-Cluster Replication

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Cross-Cluster Replication Liferay Enterprise Search (LES) Subscribers In a classic Liferay DXP/search engine installation, one Liferay DXP cluster talks to one Elasticsearch cluster, sending all...

Using the Sidecar or Embedded Elasticsearch

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Using the Sidecar or Embedded Elasticsearch Sidecar and embedded Elasticsearch are not suitable for production. When using an app server different other than Tomcat, set up a standalone...

Upgrading Search Infrastructure

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Upgrading Search Infrastructure While upgrading Liferay, consider whether an Elasticsearch upgrade is required. The exact steps for upgrading depend on your existing search engine installation and...

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...

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

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...

Upgrading to Elasticsearch 8

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Upgrading to Elasticsearch 8 7.4 U81+, 7.3 U31+ Elasticsearch 8 is supported and recommended for the latest Liferay DXP Quarterly and Portal GA release out of the box. For specific version...

Installing a Search Engine

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Installing a Search Engine A search engine is a critical component of your Liferay installation. Creating an Example Cluster can get you started with the installation, but this guide demonstrates...

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...

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...

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...

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...

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...

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...

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) →...

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...

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...

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...

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...

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]...

Getting Started

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Getting Started

Troubleshooting the Elasticsearch Connection

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Troubleshooting the Elasticsearch Connection Listed here are some connection issues you can encounter when configuring the Liferay-Elasticsearch connection, along with the most common solutions to...

Troubleshooting Elasticsearch: Common Issues

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Troubleshooting Elasticsearch: Common Issues Listed here are some common issues you may encounter while configuring Elasticsearch and Liferay. Additional connection-specific errors are discussed in...

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...

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...

Learning to Rank

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Learning to Rank Liferay Enterprise Search (LES) Subscribers Search engines like Elasticsearch have well-tuned relevance algorithms, good for general search purposes. LES Learning to Rank...