The OneDealer Enterprise Search is a powerful feature of OneDealer for searching information. Behind the scenes we use Lucene search engine by creating catalogues that are being produced from data indexing in our databases.

The search is being made inside of the OneDealer, but the catalogue generation is executed by an external console application. This application can be executed by a task scheduler or manually. Another scenario of data indexing is by triggering the Lucene indexing through OneDealer.

OneDealer Lucene application

The heart of application is the LuceneConfig.xml file where we define

• the database schema that we want to index
• the business entities that we want to index

<?xml version="1.0" encoding="utf-8" ?>
<OneDealerSetupLuceneIndexer>
  <!-- Root folder of the Lucene app -->
  <RootFolder>X:\XXXXXX\XXXX\XXXX</RootFolder>
  <!-- Execution folder of Lucene app -->
  <LuceneExecutionRootFolder>X:\XXXXXX\XXXX\XXXX\XXXXX</LuceneExecutionRootFolder>
  <InstallationIndexers>
    <LuceneInstallationIndexer>

	  <!-- List of schema names to be indexed -->
      <SchemaNames>
        <LuceneSchema>
          <SchemaName>RCGENDEV</SchemaName>
  		  <!-- If it has B1 Service Layer define the time difference -->
          <ServiceLayerTimeDifference>0</ServiceLayerTimeDifference>
        </LuceneSchema>
      </SchemaNames>

	  <!-- List of Business Entities to be indexed -->
      <LuceneBusinessEntities>

	    <!-- Business Entity to be indexed -->
        <LuceneBusinessEntity>
        </LuceneBusinessEntity>

      </LuceneBusinessEntities>

    </LuceneInstallationIndexer>
	<!-- Lucene Indexer Dimensions -->
      <Dimensions>
        <LuceneDimension>
          <Name>UserId</Name>
        </LuceneDimension>
        <LuceneDimension>
          <Name>SalesPersonCode</Name>
        </LuceneDimension>
        <LuceneDimension>
          <Name>U_IDMS_DIM_Company</Name>
        </LuceneDimension>
      </Dimensions>

  </InstallationIndexers>

</OneDealerSetupLuceneIndexer>

LuceneBusinessEntity

LuceneBusinessEntity  is a class name that contains valuable information regarding the data indexing and the data that are going to be displayed inside OneDealer. Let's see the definition of LuceneBusinessEntity  class:

AssemblyIocProvider

Here we can declare a custom implementation of ILuceneBusinessEntityDataProvider  interface for indexing data.

An example is the data indexing of external sources, such as Incadea.

We created the OneDealerLuceneIncadeaExternalDataProvider  class, which inherits from OneDealerLuceneExternalDataProvider<T> that executes HTTP requests through the declared IInterfacingManager .

The IInterfacingManager implementation has a configuration of the base address URL and the URI that is going to be called.

DataProviderFilters

List of static filters to execute the query to the database

BusinessEntityFields

EntityDimensions