Objective

Provide users with search capabilities over the content of the new unified knowledge base of the site without dependency on the old Rails/Solr infrastructure.

What to Do

• Index published Concepts and their main text fields.
• Define a simple and intuitive interface for search queries and results.
• Take into account name, description, intro, content, and, if necessary, the type/hierarchy of the Concept.
• Handle empty results correctly.
• Do not carry over Sunspot/Solr solely for compatibility with the old site.
• Provide the capability for future development of search towards semantic/AI search on top of the same universal database.

Result

Search works on the new unified data model and can evolve without being tied to the legacy architecture.