Our Features Server Debut: OpenAtrium and Apache Solr integration

April 25, 2010 - 4:53am

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Contributing back to the community is absolutely the best part of working with any open source project. The drupal community is a particularly amazing group to work with As any attendee of the late and great DrupalCon SF can attest. So I leap at the chance to give back.

First, ChapterThree is making our first public announcement of our features server.

http://features.chapterthree.com

It runs on our Mercury stack in the cloud. And to christen our new voyage is the Open Atrium Apache Solr Feature. This feature allows full Apache Solr integration on the excellent OpenAtrium.

Thanks to all the work done by Developmentseed and the ApacheSolr teams! I look forward to your feedback and patches.

Nb. To clarify, registering for an account is only necessary if you want to leave a comment/bug report/etc on our features server. You are free to download and play without signing anything. Thanks!

Comments

dwest (not verified)

April 25, 2010 - 11:49pm

FYI, you don't need to create an account to download the feature. Simply visit:

http://features.chapterthree.com/openatrium-apachesolr-search

Eric Gundersen (not verified)

April 27, 2010 - 9:57am

Jon (and team),

Nice work!. Jeff Miccolis and I took this for a spin yesterday. For those that have not tried this yet, the feature lets the main search page in Open Atrium be powered by Solr, with a bunch of facets in the side bar. This is a great improvement over the built in search.

I see work like this as just the start of improving search in Open Atrium. We need to really implicitly integrate search tools into the site, using it to power related content, allowing of facets on things like case tracker and users. It is awesome to see people pushing this, and my prediction is that there will be solid support for both Solr and Spinx by the end of the Summer.

Jon Skulski

May 1, 2010 - 12:33pm

Thanks for checking it out Eric. It's great to get feedback from those who are deep in OA space.

Ryan Price (not verified)

April 30, 2010 - 3:53am

I have a running wiki page called "A directory of Public features servers". I added this one and the feature to the list.

http://groups.drupal.org/node/50278

Could be a del.icio.us tag, I guess, but a wiki is more... permanent to me.

Jon Skulski

May 3, 2010 - 3:20am

Thank Ryan.

I do think that g.d.o is the place for this information

Hareton (not verified)

February 2, 2011 - 9:19pm

I am expecting a bit of this upgrade pain, it isn't really a big problem for me and I guess most developers, especially when we have crazy cool modules like Migrate and Table Wizard. But still, if we think about the average user, there should be an easier way. Think Wordpress's export. Yes yes, WP content is pretty much all the same structure wise, where as Drupal is anything we create. But this is Open Atrium we're talking about here (remember it took me pretty long to cope with it using tutorials like http://www.tubesfan.com/watch/getting-started-with-apache-solr ). I think you should provide that easy upgrade path for the average user that automatically maps old fields to new fields.