[TYPO3-Solr] Adding Fields to tx_solr_file

[Alexander Wende]

Quote: Jigal van Hemert wrote on Fri, 05 July 2013 08:35
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> Hi,
> 
> On 5-7-2013 0:46, Olivier Dobberkau wrote:
> > Am 04.07.13 13:56, schrieb Alexander Wende:
> >
> >> The solrfal extension contains only the file detector. No chance to get
> >> FAL meta data. It's seems that developing an patch is the only solution
> >
> > and tell us how you think the metadata
> > needs to be handled? which info should take precende? the one on the fal
> > data or the one we extract via solr?
> 
> As far as I could seen in solrfile there is no meta data extracted at 
> all. Only the text extraction service is used to collect the text inside 
> the file. It would be great if the complete set of meta data (whatever 
> is available for a certain file) would be available for the index.queue 
> definitions; perhaps as fields meta_* .
> 
> Order of precedence:
> - meta data extracted from the file itself
> - meta data from DAM / FAL
> - meta data set in content element
> 
> Think of the nice things you could do with this:
> - use author field in certain file types as author of solr document
> - display title of a document in the search results instead of the file name
> - have facets for image width/height or camera brand
> - use last modification date from meta data as last modified timestamp 
> instead of information from the file system
> 
> -- 
> Jigal van Hemert
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> 
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Full ACK! Jigals post hits the nail on the head. I used your post to open a feature request. 
http://forge.typo3.org/issues/49693