July 26, 2019
Apache Solr – Configuration Examples and Resources
A small collection of tips, file snippets and resources that may be useful when configuring an Apache Solr search engine.
July 26, 2019
Apache Solr – Search Suggestions
Apache Solr has many ways to assist web application users search for terms and phrases. Some ways work best with terms, others work best with phrases. They are generally used to correct spelling, suggest alternative words, suggest a list of search phrases and suggest search queries. The basic approach is to define multiple request handlers in solrconfig.xml and then choose which ones to return from in the UI.
May 30, 2019
Install Elasticsearch, Kibana, Apache, PHP and ODBC on CentOS 7
Enterprise Data Architects wanted to demonstrate a concept for dynamically displaying ERStudio models that could be viewed by everyone in the enterprise. Their proof of concept included Elasticsearch and Kibana connecting to Microsoft SQL server resources through ODBC and displaying content with an Apache web server and PHP. These are the setup notes for their platform build on a CentOS 7 server.
April 26, 2019
Fusion Server – Query Pipelines
A collection of examples demonstrating how to use a variety of Lucidworks Fusion Query Pipeline stages.
April 20, 2019
Fusion Server – Storing and Analyzing Signals
Lucidworks Fusion signals data can reveal a lot about how people use a web application. Strategies for storing and analyzing signals data are therefore key to platform maintenance. Here are a few methods and insights along those lines.
April 13, 2019
Fusion Server – Backup
In a Fusion high-availability cluster on a Linux platform, ensure the live files on each server are copied to static local system files on each server and then backup these static files to an archival storage system like a Virtual Tape Device.
Shell Scripts
In Linux, most of the console commands that can be run from the command line can be scripted and run by an automation program called shell. The shell reads this file and carries out the commands as though they have been entered directly on the command line.
April 6, 2019
Fusion App Studio – Tracking Clicks
A Lucidworks App Studio web application connected to a Fusion Search server collects interactions as “signals.” While many of these activities can also be found in the application’s Web server logs, signals in the Fusion server’s collections are the most complete, most analytics-ready and most available to Machine Learning for user personalization scenarios.
March 12, 2019
Tableau Server – Permissions
As of Tableau Server v2018.2.3, most asset permissions are found in next_gen_permissions. But there are exceptions. This collection of PostgreSQL queries contributed to the development of a web application that displayed what users had at least view permissions to Tableau data assets.
March 5, 2019
Fusion Server – Index Pipelines
A collection of examples demonstrating how to use a variety of Lucidworks Fusion Index Pipeline stages.
March 3, 2019
Regular Expressions
A collection of notes on Regular Expressions in a variety of situations.
March 2, 2019
Cron
A collection of notes on scheduling on Linux with cron. On Linux servers, cron can be used to schedule jobs that run commands and shell scripts at fixed times, dates or intervals. It’s great for repetitive tasks like backups, downloads and deleting log files.
March 1, 2019
Tableau Server – SQL Queries
A collection of PostgreSQL queries related to Tableau Server data assets.
February 16, 2019
Fusion App Studio – A Collection of Code Snips
A collection of code snips using Lucidworks App Studio – a modular code framework for developing bespoke, data-anywhere search and discovery web applications.
January 24, 2019
F-F-F-Fade Away Text …
My favorite way to trim a text element is to fade it away the at end instead tailing it with ellipses. . . because the approach is a more subtle invitation to click for more information and it’s simple to do without a lot of code.
January 18, 2019
Embed WordPress blog in site with version control and automated deploy
Here’s one way to embed a WordPress blog into an existing website already managed by a version control system and a continuous deployment service workflow to a cloud server.
December 26, 2015
Tile layout webpart for SharePoint documents
Anesthesia subject matter experts needed a good way to show SharePoint 2010 documents in a web part that re-sized with the page, looked good, could show different document groups with different colors and could easily grow or shrink with zero maintenance.
December 23, 2015
Fusion Server – V2.1 Start Up as Non-root User in CentOS 6.6
Starting up Lucidworks Fusion 2.x automatically on a single CentOS 6.6 server is tricky, because the Fusion 2.1 Users Guide assumes you are using Ubuntu Linux and Upstart scripts. On CentOS or Red Hat Linux, you’ll have to roll your own.
December 12, 2015
Semaphore 4.x ontology model not flushing properly when published
Smartlogic Search Application Framework (SAF) search dialog box suggestions context did not change after the underlying Smartlogic Semaphore 4.x ontology names changed from “Locations” to “Organizations.”
December 10, 2015
Fusion Server – V2.1 SQL datasource connector returns only one document
When working with Lucidworks Fusion 2.1 search, one of the first steps is to index content from a data source. You’ll find it can index just about anything, but when indexing a MS SQL table it might fail silently and not return all documents.
January 29, 2013
Display Tableau dashboard in SharePoint web part
When the business needs to view Tableau dashboards or visualizations in SharePoint 2010, the most complete solution is to install the Tableau Server Service Application into the SharePoint farm. But what if it is not installed or supported on the farm?
January 4, 2013
Remove HTML formatting from SharePoint Rich Text Editor content with JavaScript
People like to avoid SharePoint 2010’s Rich Text and Enhanced Rich Text editors until they find out they can paste in their Word document.
May 26, 2012
Using “Append Text to Query” in Search Core Results
SharePoint Search indexes and returns as much as it can, and it depends on you to filter out what you don’t want.
May 20, 2012
Open SharePoint List/Library Link in New Window
Why can’t a SharePoint list/library web part open links in a new window by default?
May 13, 2012
Calculated Columns for Cascading Drop-Downs in SharePoint Lists and Libraries
SharePoint list or library users need a simple way to enter data in one column that depends on what was entered in another, but out-of-the-box SharePoint 2007 or 2010 does not support direct cascading functionality.
May 12, 2012
Generate a hierarchical XML file from SharePoint list
So, you need to get data from a SharePoint 2010 list and generate a hierarchical XML file that can be used as a data source for a Flash movie on a site. Your enterprise SharePoint Admins want their platform to stay as out of the box as possible, and they have good reasons to minimize server-side customizations and the use of SharePoint Designer.
May 4, 2012
Reporting Services web parts on SharePoint page
Adding Report Builder web parts to SharePoint 2010 made the page colorful and intelligent, but the UI lacked a bit.
April 28, 2012
Automatically closing a SharePoint 2010 Edit form opened from a Reporting Services web part
SharePoint 2010 Edit and Display forms can be modified with InfoPath. This opportunity comes with a few new bugs, but the UI and functionality can be compelling.
April 27, 2012
Using HTTP-EQUIV to refresh a page
Using an HTTP-EQUIV meta tag is a simple way to automate this thank-you and form refresh process. The InfoPath form’s meta tag just needs to contain an &Source reference back to the original page.
February 20, 2012
Access Denied for Visitors on a SharePoint Page with Reporting Services Webpart
If you are working in SharePoint 2010 and discover that users in the Visitors group or All Authenticated Users are unable to open pages that contain a Report Services web part with an Access Denied error.
February 3, 2012
Get the BDC Identity value from a SharePoint 2010 External List to SQL Server
Say you have a Reporting Services web part, and you want to change an indicator on the report from red to green with a single click. To do this, without relying on SharePoint Server Admins, build a Visual Studio 2010 C# Express Console Application following the Client Object Model.