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Published inFeb 2018
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Sandeep Nair
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Sandeep has been working in Liferay technology for more than 8 years and has more than 10 years' of overall experience in Java and Java EE technologies. He has executed projects using Liferay across various verticals such as construction, financial, and medical domains, providing solutions for collaboration, enterprise content management, and Web content Management systems. He has created a free and open source Google Chartlet plugin for Liferay which has been downloaded and used by people across 90 countries according to sourceforge statistics. Besides development, consulting, and implementing solutions he has also been involved in giving training on Liferay in other countries. Before he jumped into Liferay he had experience in Java and Java EE Technologies. He has authored "Liferay Beginner's Guide" and "Instant Liferay Portal 6 Starter" with Packt Publishing. When he is not coding, he loves to read books and travel.
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Chintan Mehta
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Chintan Mehta

Chintan Mehta is a co-founder of KNOWARTH Technologies and heads the cloud/RIMS/DevOps team. He has rich, progressive experience in server administration of Linux, AWS Cloud, DevOps, RIMS, and on open source technologies. He is also an AWS Certified Solutions Architect. Chintan has authored MySQL 8 for Big Data, Mastering Apache Solr 7.x, MySQL 8 Administrator's Guide, and Hadoop Backup and Recovery Solutions. Also, he has reviewed Liferay Portal Performance Best Practices and Building Serverless Web Applications.
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Dharmesh Vasoya

Dharmesh Vasoya is a Liferay 6.2 certified developer. He has 5.5 years of experience in application development with technologies such as Java, Liferay, Spring, Hibernate, Portlet, and JSF. He has successfully delivered projects in various domains, such as healthcare, collaboration, communication, and enterprise CMS, using Liferay. Dharmesh has good command of the configuration setup of servers such as Solr, Tomcat, JBOSS, and Apache Web Server. He has good experience of clustering, load balancing and performance tuning. He completed his MCA at Ahmedabad University.
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Solr supports a feature called highlighting that helps end users who are running a query to scan results quickly. Providing a matching term in bold and highlighted the format makes it an extremely satisfying experience for the user. With highlighting, the user can quickly determine the terms they are searching for or make a decision that the provided results do not match their expectations, and lets them move to next query.

Solr comes with a great configuration for highlighting. There are many parameters for fragment sizing, formatting, ordering, backup.alternate behavior, and categorization. Fragments or snippets are parts of the response that contain matching terms.

Highlighting parameters

Solr provides a large list for highlighting fragments. The following are the basic parameters required to start highlighting:

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Sandeep Nair

Sandeep has been working in Liferay technology for more than 8 years and has more than 10 years' of overall experience in Java and Java EE technologies. He has executed projects using Liferay across various verticals such as construction, financial, and medical domains, providing solutions for collaboration, enterprise content management, and Web content Management systems. He has created a free and open source Google Chartlet plugin for Liferay which has been downloaded and used by people across 90 countries according to sourceforge statistics. Besides development, consulting, and implementing solutions he has also been involved in giving training on Liferay in other countries. Before he jumped into Liferay he had experience in Java and Java EE Technologies. He has authored "Liferay Beginner's Guide" and "Instant Liferay Portal 6 Starter" with Packt Publishing. When he is not coding, he loves to read books and travel.
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Chintan Mehta

Chintan Mehta is a co-founder of KNOWARTH Technologies and heads the cloud/RIMS/DevOps team. He has rich, progressive experience in server administration of Linux, AWS Cloud, DevOps, RIMS, and on open source technologies. He is also an AWS Certified Solutions Architect. Chintan has authored MySQL 8 for Big Data, Mastering Apache Solr 7.x, MySQL 8 Administrator's Guide, and Hadoop Backup and Recovery Solutions. Also, he has reviewed Liferay Portal Performance Best Practices and Building Serverless Web Applications.
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Dharmesh Vasoya

Dharmesh Vasoya is a Liferay 6.2 certified developer. He has 5.5 years of experience in application development with technologies such as Java, Liferay, Spring, Hibernate, Portlet, and JSF. He has successfully delivered projects in various domains, such as healthcare, collaboration, communication, and enterprise CMS, using Liferay. Dharmesh has good command of the configuration setup of servers such as Solr, Tomcat, JBOSS, and Apache Web Server. He has good experience of clustering, load balancing and performance tuning. He completed his MCA at Ahmedabad University.
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Parameter

Behavior

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hl

A Boolean parameter to enable/disable highlighting. hl=true will enable highlighting.

false

hl.method

To specify a method to implement highlighting...