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Search Index

Filename

search.yml

Root Node

search

Options

The search.yml file is used to configure how your entities are indexed to make them usable by the internal search engine of OroPlatform. A fully working example can look like this:

src/Acme/DemoBundle/Resources/config/oro/search.yml
 search:
     Acme\DemoBundle\Entity\Product:
         alias: demo_product
         search_template: AcmeDemoBundle:result.html.twig
         label: Demo products
         route:
             name: acme_demo_search_product
             parameters:
                 id: id
         mode: normal
         title_fields: [name] # deprecated since 2.0
         fields:
             -
                 name: name
                 target_type: text
             -
                 name: description
                 target_type: text
                 target_fields: [description, another_index_name]  parameter.
             -
                 name: manufacturer
                 relation_type: many-to-one
                 relation_fields:
                     -
                         name: name
                         target_type: text
                         target_fields: [manufacturer, all_data]
                     -
                         name: id
                         target_type: integer
                         target_fields: [manufacturer]
             -
                 name: categories
                 relation_type: many-to-many
                 relation_fields:
                     -
                         name: name
                         target_type: text
                         target_fields: [all_data]

alias

type: string

An alias used in the from keyword in advanced search.

fields

type: sequence

The list of fields that will be added to the search index. Each entry must be a map that can use the following keys to configure how the property value will be indexed:

name

type: string

The name of the entity property. This option is required.

relation_fields

type: sequence

When the field represents an association (i.e. a value is configured for relation_type), this is a list of fields from the target entity to index. For each entry all the options of the parent fields option apply.

relation_type

type: string

When the property denotes an association with another entity, the type of association (one of one-to-one, many-to-many, one-to-many, or many-to-one) must be configured with this option.

target_fields

type: sequence

The target_fields option list the named indexes to which the property value will be added.

For example, a contact may have the properties firstName, lastName, and namePrefix and all three properties should be searched when the user is loooking for a value in the virtual name field (when using the advanced search API). In this case, all three properties will list the name field in target_fields:

search:
    Acme\ContactBunde\Entity\Contact:
        fields:
            - name: firstName
              target_type: text
              target_fields: [name]
            - name: lastName
              target_type: text
              target_fields: [name]
            - name: namePrefix
              target_type: text
              target_fields: [name]

If the target_type is text, the data will also be stored in the all_data field implicitly.

If the target_fields option is not given, the data is added to a virtual field whose name is the name as the field’s name (i.e. what is specified under the name key).

target_type

type: string

The type of the virtual search field (possible values are datetime, double, integer, and text). This option is required.

label

type: string

A human readable label to identify the entity in the search results. The configured string will be passed to the translator.

mode

type: string default: normal

The entity behavior for inheritance. For possible values and what they mean, have a look at the constants of the Mode class.

route

type: map

The route for which a URL is generated when linking from the search result to a concrete entity. The available options are:

name

type: string

The name of the route.

parameters

type: map

The routing parameters, each key is the name of the routing parameter and the value is the name of one of the configured fields.

search_template

type: string

title_fields

type: sequence

Note: Usage of this field is deprecated starting from 2.0. Register an EntityNameProvider instead. The list of fields to build the title for the result set. The value used here denote to the configured fields.