[TYPO3-Solr] extending the index scope

[Ingo Renner]

Pim Snel wrote:

Hi Pim,

> First my thanks to the TYPO3-Solr-developers: Thanks and kudos for your
> great work. After a tough trial-and-error configuration session, I
> managed to get the Solr-extensions basically working. Most pain was the
> little documentation but the software components themselves feel very
> stable.

thanks for the warm words! We know that documentation is still sparse, 
but we're working on it. There's some documentation in the forge wiki 
already and we'd appreciate it a lot if people could help making it more 
complete.
For the TS configuration part we hope that we put everything in a good 
and easy to find place with good names explaining what they do. If you 
feel that some things could be improved, please let us know.

> Can I extend the indexing scope by defining new fields and ways to react
> in typoscript? For example can I configure the solr-extension to work
> with tt_news without touching the code?

Yes and no: Currently you can already index additional information 
without changing the extension's code. This would require a separate 
extension to hook into EXT:solr.

For a future version we're currently working on an Indexing Queue that 
should allow you to index other tables even without having to write an 
additional extension. As we feel that this is not stable or good enough 
quality yet to be released, this feature is currently available to our 
development partners with early access only.

If you're interested in early access to new versions, please feel free 
to contact me about the details.

Other than that you're of course also very welcome to help with 
improving the released version on forge. We're also dedicated to support 
this version as well.


all the best
Ingo

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Ingo Renner
TYPO3 Core Developer, Release Manager TYPO3 4.2