Repositories

The primary function of a repository is to help you organize indexes and queries in a way that makes sense to you. In a typical scenario, you will have a repository for indexing users, one for indexing products, and perhaps one for indexing content, but you can create as many repositories as you want to (Figure 1.1).

To create a repository:

• Go to Settings
• Right-click the Repositories node and select New repository
• Name it
• Click OK

A repository can contain the following elements:

• Index definitions – which are instructions for building an index
• Queries – which are used to retrieve data based on the criteria you define
• Facets – which are used to create filters in frontend
• Tasks – which are used to rebuild indexes at an interval

You should add them in that order – facets are dependent on queries, which are dependent on an index, etc.

All of these elements can be found in Files/System/Repositories/YourRepositoryName – and can be moved to other solutions by simply copying the repository folder from one solution to the other. The actual index files are not placed in this folder, but as soon as the index is rebuilt on the new solution they will be created.