On Tue, Oct 23, 2012 at 4:49 PM, Erik Hatcher <erik.hatc...@gmail.com> wrote: > Ronny - > > Your best bets will be to engage the Blacklight team at their mailing list or > in the #blacklight IRC room, both of which are active every day. Thanks will do that > > The links in your search UI will need to be adjusted, as Rails doesn't like > having the URL formatted id's as part of the path - this is something I've > ended up customizing when I've demo'd Blacklight with a non-library data set > that had URLs for id's (but I don't recall how I customized it exactly, but > basically overrode how the document URLs are formed to put the id in a query > string parameter). > > You did get results though! Press search :) Now when I did press search I get something but why don't I get a single result when I search for something :-).FUNNY hahah I can afford a smile at least
You're just not showing any initial facets, but that's a config option. > > What University do you work for? I don't know whether you meant to imply > Hull below or not, but Hull is using Blacklight within their Hydra project > among others. > Well am in Africa Uganda International University of East Africa > Erik > > > On Oct 23, 2012, at 08:46 , Muwonge Ronald wrote: > >> Yes this was the person I wanted to befriend Eric good to hear from >> you.I won't hide anything am working a search engine for particular >> content.I crawled some data with nutch and indexed to solr.I have >> been in search of a good solution and when reading the >> Apache_Solr_3_Enterprise_Search_Server i fell in love with Blacklight >> (nice name) I wend ahead and here iam. >> >> http://waatu.com:3001 >> >> These will be the fields I need, URL,content,Title something like >> fields used by google,bing etc.What would yo advise tried to follow >> this page >> https://github.com/projectblacklight/blacklight/wiki/How-to-configure-Blacklight-to-talk-to-your-(pre-existing)-Solr-index >> but failed to get results form my solr index ;-( >> . >> By the way I like it's use at those universities and will introduce it >> at the University I work soon thanks for job >> https://hydra.hull.ac.uk/ >> IF all goes well wait for my donation ;-) >> Regards >> Ronny >> >> On Mon, Oct 22, 2012 at 5:55 PM, Erik Hatcher <erik.hatc...@gmail.com> wrote: >>> Further on that.... in recent versions of Solr, it's /browse, not the >>> sillier /itas handler name. >>> >>> As far as the "best" search front end, it's such an opinionated answer >>> here. It all really depends on what technologies you'd like to deploy. >>> The library world has created two nice front-ends that are more or less >>> general purpose enough to use for other (non-library) schemas, with a bit >>> of configuration. There's Blacklight (Ruby on Rails) and VuFind (PHP). As >>> the initial creator of Blacklight, I'll toss in my vote for that one as the >>> best :) But again, it depends on many factors what's the Right choice for >>> your environment. >>> >>> You can learn more about Blacklight at http://projectblacklight.org/, and >>> see many examples of it deployed in production here: >>> <https://github.com/projectblacklight/blacklight/wiki/Examples> >>> >>> Erik >>> >>> >>> On Oct 22, 2012, at 08:13 , Paul Libbrecht wrote: >>> >>>> My experience for the easiest query is solr/itas (aka velocity solr). >>>> >>>> paul >>>> >>>> >>>> Le 22 oct. 2012 à 11:15, Muwonge Ronald a écrit : >>>> >>>>> Hi all, >>>>> have done some crawls for certain urls with nutch and indexed them to >>>>> solr.I kindly request for assistance in getting the best search >>>>> interface but have no choice.Could you please assist me on this with >>>>> examples and guide lines looked at solr-php-client but failed. >>>>> Thnx >>>>> Ronny >>>> >>> >
