This module creates several blocks to support searching. It also enables the use of Ajax with search blocks, facets, and search results.
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Islandora Advanced Search

Introduction

This module creates several blocks to support searching. It also enables the use of Ajax with search blocks, facets, and search results.

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Requirements

Use composer to download the required libraries and modules.

composer require drupal/facets "^1.3"
composer require drupal/search_api_solr "^4.1"
composer require drupal/search_api "^1.5"

However, for reference, advanced_search requires the following drupal modules:

Installation

To download/enable just this module, use the following from the command line:

composer require islandora/islandora
drush en advanced_search

Configuration

You can set the following configuration at admin/config/islandora/advanced_search:

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Configuring Solr

Please review Islandora Documentation before continuing. The following assumes you already have a working Solr and the Drupal Search API setup.

Lucene Search (New)

Click here to find more detail about Lucene Search in Drupal.

If this feature is enabled, an option of searching all mapping fields will be added in Advanced Search Form (screenshot below).

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To support collection based searches you need to index the field_member_of for every repository item as well define a new field that captures the full hierarchy of field_member_of for each repository item.

Add a new Content solr field field_decedent_of to the solr index at admin/config/search/search-api/index/default_solr_index/fields.

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Then under admin/config/search/search-api/index/default_solr_index/processors enable Index hierarchy and setup the new field to index the hierarchy.

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The field can now be used limit a search to all the decedents of a given object.

N.B. You may have to re-index to make sure the field is populated.

Configure Views

The configuration of views is outside of the scope of this document, please read the Drupal Documentation, as well as the Search API Documentation.

Exposed Form

Solr views allow the user to configure an exposed form (optionally as a block). This form / block is different from the Advanced Search Block. This module does not make any changes to the form, but this form can cause the Advanced Search Block to not function if configured incorrectly.

The Advanced Search Block requires that if present the Exposed forms Exposed form style is set to Basic rather than Input Required. As Input Required will prevent any search from occurring unless the user puts an additional query in the Exposed form as well.

Form Style

That being said it will be typical that you require the following Relationships and Contextual Filters when setting up a search view to enable Collection Search searches.

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Here a relationship is setup with Member Of field and we have two contextual filters:

  1. field_member_of (Direct decedents of the Entity)
  2. field_decedent_of (All decedents of the Entity)

Both of these filters are configured the exact same way.

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These filters are toggled by the Advanced Search block to allow the search to include all decedents or just direct decedents (documented below).

Paging

The paging options specified here can have an affect on the pager block (documented below).

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Sorting

Additional the fields listed as Sort Criteria as Exposed will be made available in the pager block (documented below).

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Configure Blocks

For each block type:

  • Facet
  • Pager
  • Advanced Search

There will be one block per View Display. The block should be limited to only appear when the view it was derived from is also being displayed on the same page.

This requires configuring the visibility of the block as appropriate. For collection based searches be sure to limit the display of the Facets block to the models you want to display the search on, e.g:

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Advanced Search Block

For any valid search field, you can drag / drop and reorder the fields to display in the advanced search form on. The configuration resides on the block so this can differ across views / displays if need be. Additionally if the View the block was derived from has multiple contextual filters you can choose which one corresponds to direct children, this will enable the recursive search checkbox.

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N.B. Be aware that the Search views Exposed Form can have an affect on the function of the Advanced Search Block. Please refer to that section to learn more.

Search Block (NEW)

To associate this simple search block to a Advanced Search Result Page view, you can select its machine name in the dropdown list. With that, this form will redirect to the view with search parameters.

You can also change the search form's appearance by changing the default label, placeholder text for the search text field, and search button.

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Documentation

Further documentation for this module is available on the Islandora 8 documentation site.

Troubleshooting/Issues

Having problems or solved a problem? Check out the Islandora google groups for a solution.

Maintainers

Current maintainers:

Sponsors

  • LYRASIS

Development

If you would like to contribute, please get involved by attending our weekly Tech Call. We love to hear from you!

If you would like to contribute code to the project, you need to be covered by an Islandora Foundation Contributor License Agreement or Corporate Contributor License Agreement. Please see the Contributors pages on Islandora.ca for more information.

We recommend using the islandora-playbook to get started.

License

GPLv2

This section explains some of the different behaviours you may see when using options in the advanced search module. The Advanced Search module provides Boolean search, and enables you to configure fields for advanced searching. These fields can be string fields (which require an exact phrase) and are case sensitive or can be full-text searches.

Out of the box https://www.drupal.org/project/search_api_solr full-text fieldsutilize the extended dismax parser provided by Solr.

If you use string fields you will experience the standard query behaviour from Apache Solr, requiring an exact field match and it is case sensitive. If you use full-text fields you will be able to search single words or phrases, and it is case insensitive. If, however, you turn on the edismax in advanced search, you will enable support for case insensitive searching, support for any word search (“bounded” searches can still be used for phrase matches), and be able to use specific syntax for wildcards etc. This syntax is provided below: Screen Shot 2023-02-01 at 12 50 26 PM