Search module
The Search module provides a site search functionality in the form of a search box widget. Once the module is installed and configured, a search box is shown in the header of the page. When you enter a term in the search box, you can see the list of results including PDF format, and Microsoft Office documents which have been published and contain the search term. Currently, the SDL Digital Experience Accelerator does not provide support for Amazon CloudSearch binary indexing.
The query entered in the Search Box must have Solr/Lucene standard query syntax.
Before you start the installation of the search module, you must install and configure Apache Solr 4.8 or later, and configure Solr Core(s). Afterwards, configure your deployer web application to use the SI4T storage extensions, which will allow you to connect the publishing process to the Apache Solr search indices.
As an alternative, you can use Amazon CloudSearch Managed Search Service. Use Amazon Web Services tools (e.g. AWS Console) to create a new AWS CloudSearch domain and obtain the URLs for the Document and Search endpoints. Finally, define AWS CloudSearch domain index fields.
For the module to work, you must perform the installation on both the Content Manager and the Web application side.