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WolfShade
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April 8, 2014
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Frustration: Cannot "edit" Solr collections?

  • April 8, 2014
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Hello, everyone.

When Solr collections were first introduced in ColdFusion Server, the one thing that really irritated me was the fact that you cannot edit a Solr collection (ie, when you click on a collection in CFAdmin, you are given a default template with ".htm, .html, .cfm, .cfml" as the documents to index - you can't see what's currently there and add/remove anything.)

I thought I had heard (guess they were rumours) that CF10 was supposed to give you the ability to alter the index.  I'm running CF10, and it's the same as CF9 - clicking a collection gives default options, not the ability to add/remove document extensions.

Is there a fix for this??  We have collections that were originally created a long time ago that were not documented what they are supposed to be indexing, and we have no idea of what to do if we need to change something.

V/r,

^_^

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Charlie Arehart
Community Expert
Community Expert
April 8, 2014

I don’t know for sure, but have you checked to see if CFCollection (the tag used for creating/managing collections, as an alternative to the Admin) might have more flexibility for you? Worth a check.

/charlie

/Charlie (troubleshooter, carehart. org)
WolfShade
WolfShadeAuthor
Legend
April 8, 2014

Hi, Charlie,

Thanks for the reply.  But CFCOLLECTION can only help if I know what's being indexed.  For the Solr collections that we have in production, I personally know what to index in seven of them.  Three can be guessed, somewhat.  The rest, no one knows what is being indexed (it was never documented, and the developer who originally created them has "moved on to greener pastures".)

^_^

Participating Frequently
April 15, 2014

can you log into the solr server and check the indexes in there?. I know I can login (outside of CF), as i've done it here. Can't recall if if gives you more info, it would I'd imagine.