OpenCart Elasticsearch

The admin can manage the functionality of the module from the admin panel easily. The admin will enable the Elastic server, enter its Ip address, select the port number, select a scheme for using an Https or Http.

Apart from this, the admin can also set the login authentication for the Elastic Server.

• The admin can enable and check the status of the Elastic Server.
• Enter the IP Address of the server with ElasticSearch.
• Enter the Elastic Port number.
• Enter the Index Prefix which is used to create your data index unique on the elastic server.
• Select the ElasticSearch scheme to use HTTPS or HTTP.
• Choose to have a Login authentication for Elastic Server or not. Using the Hyperlocal status and enabling it helps to fetch the product of sellers selling within the customer added location.

The admin will set the number of characters to search, select the option to redirect if it's a single result, select the sections where to search, check the sections that should be searched on the information pages.

• Set the minimum number of characters to search.
• Enable/Disable the option to redirect if it’s a single result.
• Check the sections wherein you want to search at the frontend like - product, category, manufacturer, and information.
• Check the sections where you want to search for products like - name, description, meta tag title.
• For the option Search In Category for, check the sections where you want the search.
• For the option Search In Information for, check the sections that should be searched on the information pages.

Under this section, the admin will configure the settings for the details to be shown on the search result. Here -

• After making the selections the results will have the selected details of the products
• Check the product details like - Product name, price, image, review & rating, etc that you want to display at the front end.
• Enter the placeholder for the search text box.

After configuring the general settings, the admin needs to tap the check status button. This checks the connection with the ElasticServer.

• If the connection is successful, you will see a confirmation message displaying the same, or else you will see a related error message displayed.
• Do this by clicking the Check Status button.
• A success message is shown if the connection is successful else you will see the error message.

The admin will have to do indexing before making use of Elasticsearch. The indexing can be done for products, categories, manufacturers, and information. To add an index, click on the add index button, and after that -

• The Index Name (every character must be lower case) & also predefined Index prefix i.e elastic_ is added before the Index name to make every field unique from others.
• Set the Index Type.
• Set the number of shards.
• Select the status of this new index as Enabled or Disabled.