FirstAppWebapp

Customizing the Web Application

The web application can be partially customized by updating the config XML file. The web application is meant as a demonstration application and will likely need to be modified to meet your needs in ways that are not possible with the configuration file.

    <searcher appTitle="LivingKnowledge  - Example Application"
              appShortTitle="Example Application"
              appUrl="http://localhost:8983/solr/">
        <facets>
            <facet field="per" description="Person"/>
            <facet field="loc" description="Location"/>
        </facets>
    </searcher>

Adding Facets

In the default application, it is possible to see people and locations in the facet tab field. Now that we have added Yago entities and Yago countries to the index, we might also want to see these as facets. This is accomplished by modifying adding the facets to the <facets> element.</facets>

        <facets>
            <facet field="yago" description="Yago"/>
            <facet field="yago-country" description="Country"/>
            <facet field="per" description="Person"/>
            <facet field="loc" description="Location"/>
        </facets>

Changing Components

It is also possible to change the way the facets are displayed. Currently, there are 3 modes that are supported: The default list, a tag cloud and a map view. To configure the components, add them in a <components> tag after the facets tags. Notice that you can also specify which of the components are initially expanded by setting the expanded tag. To deploy the new configuration, again enter ant deploy-testbed.</components>

        <components>
            <component expanded="true" facet="yago"/>
            <component facet="yago-country"/>
            <component facet="per" renderer="TagCloudFacetValueListRenderer"/>
            <component facet="loc" renderer="MapFacetValueListRenderer"/>
            <component facet="image"/>
        </components>