Use the Search Overrides module to give your editors control over your Solr-based site search results

1. Manually Curated
Solr Search Results
Martin Anderson-Clutz
@mandclu
Northern (formerly Digital Echidna)

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Search Is Important
For a variety of users
● Users without domain
knowledge
● Task-oriented or
transactional visitors

3. If a person can not find what they need from
your site? It is as if it wasn’t there.
If a person can not find what they need from
your site? It is as if it wasn’t there.
If a person can not find what they need from
your site? It is as if it wasn’t there.
@Blackamazon
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4. ● Offered by competing search solutions
○ Swiftype, Cludo, Addsearch, etc.
● Clients want the control
○ SMEs can define “authoritative” results for key searches
Curated Results. Why?

5. Search Overrides Module
● Allow editors to promote
and remove content for
specific queries
● Option to manually rank
promoted content
● Manage overrides within
node edit

6. Demo!

7. ● Use sparingly
○ Overuse may indicate a need for relevance tuning, or
ML
● By default uses “includes” matching for queries
● Also possible to promote taxonomy terms, and anything
else in your index
● Requires Solr 4.7 or newer
Notes On Usage

8. ● Role-specific overrides
○ Promote specific content only for certain roles, e.g.
employee handbook
● Scheduled
○ Start/stop e.g. align with campaigns
● Interactive Results Editor
○ Drag and drop within query results
Roadmap Ideas

9. Discussion

10. Thank You!
@mandclu