nopCommerce Search Solr plugin

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This module provide multiple points of extensibility to allow fully customize indexing process. Possible user cases and solutions for them are listed below.

• Adding new search providers
• Adding new crawlers
• Adding new crawler steps

Search plugin screenshot

• Admin: Configure your local Solr instance
  
• Admin Dashboard
  
• Admin: Schedule tasks
  
• Admin: Realtime log
  
• Admin: Realtime log(sync & search tasks)
  
• Admin: Search plugin menu
  
• Admin: Search Nop Pages
  
• Admin: SearchNopPages -> NopSearch page settings
  
• Admin: Search fields
  
• Admin: Simple facets
  
• Admin: Simple facet Edit Page
  
• Admin: Facet Templates/Custom Facet Templates
  
• Admin: Create/Edit Facet Template Page
  
• Admin: CMS search pages
  
• Admin: CMS search pages – Edit/Create page
  
• Public: Search box
  
• Public: Custom Autocomplete
  
• Public: Example of product catalog(search) page
  
• Public: Example of public entity list page
  

Release 2.2 - 2020-02-27

• UPDATED: Added support Nop 4.10.
• Removed dependencies from CMS plugin
• Removed reflection methods so you will not need to remove nopTemplates plugin or any other 3d parties plugins with assemblies dependencies issues.
• Simplified configuration page, you will have a bit more flexibility with entering settings by using pluginsettings.json file.
• Simplified provider class interface so it’s a bit earthier to implement a new search provider for elastic search or other search engine.
• Added Search Apps to index/remove documents from Solr
• Developers. A lot of source code refactoring

Release 2.1 - 2019-05-22

• Added AntiForgeryToken to the Admin views
• DP Search: added redirect to LanguageCode url for 2-sign SeNames
• Process VisibleIndividually & Deleted & Published atts in Sync procedure
• Fix: Manufacture image issue in manufacture pipe

Release 2.0 - 2018-12-05

• Fixed: category localization issue in CategoryTreeFacet
• Added Drag'n'drop for suggestions for facets lists
• Fixed: issues with multithreading in insert/update evets
• Search lazy load results
• Added Charts to show statistic per day for indexed process and removing doc’s process

Release 1.9 - 2018-09-23

• Added Specification Atts Pipes and filters
• Added pipes to index specification atts as values and ability to use Statistic for those values
• Added pipes to index specification atts as diapason values (with min and max value) and Range Slider for those atts
• Added static cache to improve performance and CacheTime setting
• Added group products support. Group products can be found by Name, Sku or some words from description of child products
• Added Selected Facet
• Added escaping for search
• Added an option «Publish only visible documents(products/entities with Publishe=1, Deleted=0 and VisibleIndividually=1 atts)
• Improved removed products script.

Release 1.8 - 2018-04-23

• Added multistore support. This option allows to limit plugin to a certan store
• Added ACL(Access Control List) support. This option allows to use ACL for products and other document types
• Added Statistic table and last operation table to Search Dashboard page and improved Config views to explain some buttuns and settings.
• Added checkbox "Use search plugin for admin product page". This option allows to overide nopCommerce Product service

Release 1.7 - 2018-04-11

• Implemented stat support which helps to create range facet for measurable atts like price, width, length, height, weight.
• Added IsValue att for SpecificationAttributes which show that spec. att should be converted and stored as a value in search engine. It gives an ability to create range facets for specification atts.
• Optimized procedure of removing documents from index
• Updated search packages
• Used Url.SetParameter instead of _webHelper.ModifyQueryString to avoid of changing case for letters.
• Added events for Manufacture crawler
• Added "Invalid query" string which is shown when you have and issues with search engine
• Added sort by facet count in DevPartnerTreeFacet
• Fix product delete action. ChangeState.
• Implemented entity delete action

Release 1.6 - 2017-07-15

Highlight features and changes

• A lot of refactoring & performance optimization.
• Category Tree facet
• Implemented Crawler & Pipelines patterns. Added product, DP CMS entity, manufacture crawlers and 22 pipelines
• Added ability to use different Solr search handlers and specified predefined filters on Solr end

Other Features

• Added Quoted feature to escape some symbols
• Added Facet Sort setting to determines the ordering of the facet field constraints.
• • count - sort the constraints by count (highest count first)
  • index - to return the constraints sorted in their index order (lexicographic by indexed term). For terms in the ascii range, this will be alphabetically sorted.
• Add Facet Display Level attribute. Facets with display level 2 appear in the facet panel only if one of the facet with display level 1 was filtered.
• Scheme modifications: Added Meta keywords, Meta description, Main ImageId, Thumbnail URL, warehouse, dpattr_ fields.
• Scheme modifications: Added alphaOnlySort, string_ci types.

Release 1.5 - 2017-01-07

• Highlight features and changes
• Integration with CMS plugin. Added ability to index and search any CMS entity content types
• Better nopCommerce support(Added Update/Insert/Delete product, category, manufacturer, specification atts)
• Override Tags, Vendor, Manufacture pages to use facet features
• More facet templates. Added Radio Button list, Checkbox list
• Added ability to associate facet template with search field
• Search API
• Best much support
• Highlight support
• Boosting support
• and so on... a lot of more features.

Release 1.3 - 2016-12-16

• UPDATED: Added support Nop 3.80.

Release 1.2 - 2016-07-13

• added Lucerne provider
• added CompboBox facet
• added Unify theme integration
• added specification attributes to the index

Release 1.1 - 2016-06-14

• add dashboard to show last crawl operations;
• better real time statistic;
• better admin performance because of showing products from index;
• add banners on search page/category page in the middle of search results.