FUNL 202 - Funnelback for advanced implementers

Course Overview

This course provides students with the core skills required to set up, customise and develop advanced functionality for Funnelback searches.

The course focuses on the setup and creation of new Funnelback search services and also covers advanced configuration and customisation.

Course Details

Duration: 1.5 days
Pre-requisites: Students should have completed FUNL 201 - Funnelback for implementers, and also have coding skills. Familiarity with the Java or Groovy languages is desirable.

Course Breakdown

Module Content
Search collections
  • Creating a collection
Search update cycle
Updating a search index
  • Checking an update
  • Debugging failed updates
Meta collections
Working with XML
  • Relationship with metadata
Advanced metadata
  • Geospatial and numeric metadata
Push collections
Manipulating search result content
The query processing pipeline
  • UI hook scripts
Accessibility auditor configuration
Index manipulation
  • Removing items from the index
Alternate output formats
  • Output search results as CSV