Frequently-Asked Questions about Sitecore and SearchStax

SearchStax offers many pages of Solr/Sitecore-related information, most of which were written in response to frequently-asked questions about connecting SearchStax Cloud Solr deployments to Sitecore websites.

This page presently the full list of pages for rapid review.

SearchStax Help Center Sitecore Topics

The following topics are found in the SearchStax Help Center.

Can SearchStax provide Solr indexing to Sitecore?

SearchStax has hundreds of Sitecore clients. See the Sitecore/Solr Compatibility page for more information.

Sitecore Connection Errors

SearchStax Cloud customers sometimes encounter issues when connecting Sitecore to Solr Cloud for the first time. The issues are so common that a developer can encounter them in sequence (fix… Continue reading Sitecore Connection Errors

Can we use Sitecore’s SwitchOnRebuild with SearchStax?

Users sometimes ask about using Sitecore’s “Switch on Rebuild” type configuration. This uses a secondary core which can be read while the primary core is being rebuilt. SWAP vs. CREATEALIAS… Continue reading Can we use Sitecore’s SwitchOnRebuild with SearchStax?

Optimizing the xConnect Search Service

Sitecore offers a page of advice about optimizing search and indexing of your xDB index. https://support.sitecore.com/kb?id=kb_article_view&sysparm_article=KB0671173

Why does Sitecore fail to populate schemas?

While connecting Sitecore to Solr Cloud, some clients encounter a problem trying to populate the schema used by the Sitecore collections. It often looks like this: This occurs when Sitecore… Continue reading

Lowering &rows=1000000

By default, Sitecore sends queries to Solr with the &rows parameter set to 1000000. This setting places enormous stress on Solr, sometimes maximizing CPU and JVM usage, because Solr allocates… Continue reading Lowering &rows=1000000

Unpublish/Delete Fails to Remove Item from Index

If you are using Sitecore 10.0 or an older version, you might face a problem when trying to unpublish an item from the web database or even delete an item… Continue reading Unpublish/Delete Fails to Remove Item from Index

SearchStax Cloud Sitecore Topics

Topics associated with the SearchStax Cloud Connector for Sitecore.

Sitecore/Solr Compatibility

What Sitecore/Solr combination are available for SearchStax Cloud? Some Solr releases are compatible with some Sitecore releases. Other combinations may not work at all, or may seem to work until… Continue reading Sitecore/Solr Compatibility

Sitecore 9.0

How to Integrate Apache Solr with Sitecore 9.0 using the SearchStax Cloud Connector for Sitecore Overview SearchStax Cloud can enable Apache Solr on a Sitecore 9.0 website. This page demonstrates… Continue reading Sitecore 9.0

Sitecore 9.1

How to Integrate Apache Solr with Sitecore 9.1 using the SearchStax Cloud Connector for Sitecore Overview SearchStax Cloud can be used to enable Apache Solr on a Sitecore 9.1 website.… Continue reading Sitecore 9.1

Sitecore 9.2

How to Integrate Apache Solr with Sitecore 9.2 using the SearchStax Cloud Connector for Sitecore Overview SearchStax Cloud can be used to enable Apache Solr on a Sitecore website. This… Continue reading Sitecore 9.2

Sitecore 9.3

How to Integrate Apache Solr with Sitecore 9.3 using the SearchStax Cloud Connector for Sitecore Overview SearchStax Cloud can be used to enable Apache Solr on a Sitecore 9.3 website.… Continue reading Sitecore 9.3

Sitecore 10.0

How to Integrate Apache Solr with Sitecore 10.0 using the SearchStax Cloud Connector for Sitecore Overview SearchStax Cloud can be used to enable Apache Solr on a Sitecore 10.0 website.… Continue reading Sitecore 10.0

Sitecore 10.1

How to Integrate Apache Solr with Sitecore 10.1 using the SearchStax Cloud Connector for Sitecore Overview SearchStax Cloud can be used to enable Apache Solr on a Sitecore 10.1 website.… Continue reading

Sitecore 10.2

How to Integrate Apache Solr with Sitecore 10.2 using the SearchStax Cloud Connector for Sitecore Overview SearchStax Cloud can be used to enable Apache Solr on a Sitecore 10.2 website.… Continue reading Sitecore 10.2

Sitecore 10.3

How to Integrate Apache Solr with Sitecore 10.3 using the SearchStax Cloud Connector for Sitecore Overview SearchStax Cloud can be used to enable Apache Solr on a Sitecore 10.3 website.… Continue reading Sitecore 10.3

Sitecore Custom Indexes

How to Add Custom Indexes to Sitecore using SearchStax Cloud Overview SearchStax Cloud can be used to add custom indexes on a Sitecore website. This page presumes that you have… Continue reading Sitecore Custom Indexes

Sitecore SwitchOnRebuild

Enable Sitecore’s SwitchOnRebuild with SearchStax Cloud Sitecore indexes frequently have massive content with high turnover. Solr’s usual update mechanism—deleting and adding individual records followed by segment merging—is not adequate on… Continue reading

SearchStax Studio Connector for Sitecore Topics

Topics associated with the SearchStax Studio Connector for Sitecore.

Sitecore Module 2.0.0

Sitecore Module 2.0.0 SearchStax provides a special module that connects Sitecore directly to SearchStax Studio and lets you publish a custom search page immediately. Contents: What is the Sitecore Module?… Continue reading Sitecore Module 2.0.0

Upgrade to Module 2.0.0

Upgrading Sitecore Module from 1.4.1 to 1.7.0 How to upgrade from Sitecore Module v1.4.1 to v1.7.0 SearchStax released the latest version of its SearchStax for Sitecore package which contains several… Continue reading Upgrade to Module 2.0.0

Mapping Sitecore Fields

Mapping Sitecore Fields to SearchStax Studio Once your data is connected to Studio, you will need to map fields from Sitecore to Studio to see search results. This is accomplished… Continue reading Mapping Sitecore Fields

Sitecore Module FAQ

Sitecore Module FAQ SearchStax has compiled the following list of “frequent questions” about the SearchStax Studio Sitecore Module. Index rebuild operation is failing after a few seconds. How to fix… Continue reading Sitecore Module FAQ

Custom Search Page

How to Create a SearchStax Custom Search Page In a real-world project, customers using the SearchStax Sitecore Module to leverage all the SearchStudio capabilities will end up needing to customize… Continue reading Custom Search Page

Modify Configs

Modify Sitecore Module Configuration The Sitecore Module connects your Sitecore CMS to SearchStax SearchStudio for a customized search experience. The Module is helpful and convenient up to the moment when… Continue reading Modify Configs

Multi-Site Search

Using Multi-Site Sitecore with SearchStudio A single Sitecore instance can be used to manage multiple websites. This page describes how to set up a SearchStax SearchStudio project on each Sitecore… Continue reading Multi-Site Search

Multi-Root Crawling

SearchStax SearchStudio for Sitecore – How to configure multiple index crawler roots In certain scenarios, you might want to index multiple root items on your Sitecore content tree. This a… Continue reading Multi-Root Crawling

Sitecore Module with Docker

Sitecore Module with Docker The adoption of containers with Sitecore for both development and production purposes has been growing rapidly over the past few years, and is now a fully… Continue reading Sitecore Module with Docker

Sitecore SXA

SearchStax Studio for Sitecore SXA SearchStax Studio integrates with the Sitecore Experience Accelerator (SXA) to speed up the production of websites and to reuse components, layouts, and templates across a… Continue reading

Sitecore Personalization

How To Personalize SearchStudio for Sitecore Any developer working with SearchStudio for Sitecore can now personalize the search experience for different search audiences by using SearchStudio “Search Models.” By combining… Continue reading

Sitecore Topics from the SearchStax Blog

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