Search and Navigation in the hybris Commerce Accelerator - Key Concepts and Features

The accelerators comes integrated with the Solr Search Engine.

• It uses the default configuration of the solrfacetsearch extension.
  • ValueProvider: Returns the item -usually a model- which is going to be indexed. For example: the approved products.
  • SolrIndexedProperty: Each of the fields which is going to be indexed. It has a fieldValueProvider. For example: The code and description of the product.
    • DisplayName: This a localized atribute and contains the name of the property to show in the frontend.
  • FieldValueProvider: Returns the value of a field which is going to be indexed. For example: It calculates the price which is going to be stored in the Solr Index.
  • Facets: Property used to filter the results of Solr.
    • SolrValueRange: It groups the possible values of a solrIndexedProperty under a label. For example: “€ 10-19” groups all the prices between EUR 10.0 and 19.99. It is used with facets.
    • SolrValueRangeSet: It contains many SolrValueRanges. It used by SolrIndexedProperties which are multivalued.
• The commerceservices extension extends solrfacetsearch
• productSearchService exposes methods to search products or other business objects.
• productSearchFacade does the same but it returns ProductData
  • The seachStateData is used to initiated the search.
  • The productSearchPageData contains the query, the products, the paging information, available sorts and the applied filters (search breadcrumbs) and facets and available facets.

• The solr index must only include purchasable products. If you filter the returned products, the totals returned by Solr will be wrong.

• Search by category or using a free text
• Full or incremental indexing
• Multiply categories hierarchies (Product Categories, Brands and Classification). A implementation of CategorySource must be developed.
• Ordering of results. Due to the Solr internal paging, a manual ordering won't work.
  • By Relevance (Solr Score)
• Localizable names. priority, sorting and muti-select for facets.
• Links to the classification attributes
• Category Facets which are treated different as normal facets
• SearchPageController/CategoryPageController
  • They initiate and continues a search.
  • It uses bookmarkeable URLs
  • Loads the appropriate CMS Page
• Based on the solrfacetsearch
  • It uses the multi-core mode to allow an index for each Hybris type.
  • SearchQueryPostProcessors and SearchResultPostProcessors can be defined
  • Keyword Redirect: It enables to send the user to a URL or product when he enters some keyword.
  • Stopword: It's a word which is not going to be indexed, for example, in English, “the”, “a” and “in” are stopwords.

Steps to add a field to the solr index and then make it available in the frontend

Steps to add a facet to the solr index

–Based on Hybris 6.1