Hi, I’m in the home stretch of migrating all of our websites from FarCry 4 to FarCry 6.1.3 and I’m now looking for a bit of advice with SOLR (now that I’ve also dealt with some of its problems as well ).
In addition to the built in types that we need to search, a couple of our websites also need to include non FarCry collections in the search pages and I’m wondering what is the best way to include these. On one site I need to include course information that comes from a MSSQL database. What I have done is create a dummy type “wiCourseInfo” with its own display pages, displaySearchResult etc. and then created a collection in FarCry for this type. With a bit of stuffing around this does work but it creates an issue when refreshing the collections as each time the scheduled task runs, the wiCourseInfo collection is emptied. So I then have a second scheduled task that does a refresh of the wiCourseInfo collection from the Course Information database. While this does work it’s not very elegant plus I’m concerned about issues with the schedule task not always finishing successfully etc. that then leaves the course information collection empty. On another site I need to include a collection that is built off a file structure (not managed by FarCry). This time I thought I would look at trying to somehow get the non FarCry collection included in the collection list. I don’t seem to be having a lot of luck and it looks like I still have to build a webskin for the fake typename that I inserted into Custom1 in the collection. I’ve also tried just manually creating an entry in farSolrCollection, but similar issue to above. With our old Verity collections I used to append the non FarCry collection to the collection list on the search page and deal with it including results etc. all on the one page but that got a bit messy and I would now rather leverage as much of the magic inside FarCry as possible. Is one of the above methods the best way to approach the problem or am I looking at this the wrong way? Cheers Mark -- You received this message cos you are subscribed to "farcry-dev" Google group. To post, email: [email protected] To unsubscribe, email: [email protected] For more options: http://groups.google.com/group/farcry-dev -------------------------------- Follow us on Twitter: http://twitter.com/farcry
