You seem to be on the right track w/ the scheduled task that loads the information from the other database into a FC custom type. If you want to use the Solr plugin, then I think that may be the easiest option. You could always write your own search solution, but obviously that would be much more involved. The solr plugin is really geared toward indexing FarCry controlled content, and it doesn't really have any way to handle outside content.
But, you could create a scheduled task that refreshes the data in FC from the source database, and make sure that runs before the scheduled task to update the Solr index. The plugin indexes records in batches of 1000 so if you are wiping the content type and reimporting from the source index each time and the plugin sees them as new records then you'll want to make sure you keep running the index until all the objects are indexed. For the index off the "file structure" you could do something similar, though I'm not sure how much meta data would be able to lift from a directory of files. Assuming you can get what you need, you can create a small content type to track each file and then you can index them using a "file" collection created using the Solr plugin. Adding the collections to the list might get you part of the way there, but you would still need to override the CFC that handles the search logic to take that into account, and tell FarCry how to find, link to, etc those items. It might be doable, but it will most likely take a lot of work. Sorry I don't have a great answer for you. -- You received this message cos you are subscribed to "farcry-dev" Google group. To post, email: [email protected] To unsubscribe, email: [email protected] For more options: http://groups.google.com/group/farcry-dev -------------------------------- Follow us on Twitter: http://twitter.com/farcry
