Solr

Apache Solr Mastery: Adding custom search paths with hook_menu

Recently, I've been working on the search interface for McGill University's course catalog. The University wants to allow students to browse courses at friendly URLs like:

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Building Usable Solr Search Filters for Large Drupal Websites

Creating a search interface for a website with a lot of content requires providing a variety of filters. Sometimes those filters can take on a life of their own, providing hundreds of options for users to filter by. While building widgets for our Drupal/Solr projects, we looked at a couple non-Drupal examples of search interfaces for content-heavy websites.

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Usability of the Header Search Form

When designing the search interface for the McGill Univesrity Health Centre website, there was a lot of discussion around the interface for the header search form.

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