Using Solr instead of Lucene

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If you choose to use Solr instead of Lucene, you should first follow the Solr setup steps for SCpbCS. Then add the following snippet into the defaultSolrIndexConfiguration node:

<fieldMap type="Sitecore.ContentSearch.FieldMap, Sitecore.ContentSearch">
  <fieldNames hint="raw:AddFieldByFieldName">
   <field fieldName="customerfavorites" storageType="NO" indexType="TOKENIZED" 
   vectorType="NO" boost="1f" returnType="text"
   settingType="Sitecore.ContentSearch.SolrProvider.SolrSearchFieldConfiguration,
   Sitecore.ContentSearch.SolrProvider"/>
   <field fieldName="stafffavorites" storageType="NO"
        indexType="TOKENIZED" vectorType="NO" boost="1f" returnType="text"
        settingType="Sitecore.ContentSearch.SolrProvider.SolrSearchFieldConfiguration,
        Sitecore.ContentSearch.SolrProvider"/>
   <field fieldName="customeraveragerating"
        storageType="NO" indexType="TOKENIZED" vectorType="NO" boost="1f"
        returnType="double"
        settingType="Sitecore.ContentSearch.SolrProvider.SolrSearchFieldConfiguration,
        Sitecore.ContentSearch.SolrProvider"/>
</fieldNames>
</fieldMap>

Then add the following snippets to the schema file that is generated by Sitecore for Solr:

In the fields section:

<dynamicField name="*_tm" type="text_general" indexed="true" stored="true" multiValued="true"/>
<dynamicField name="*_sci" type="string_ci" indexed="true" stored="true" />

In the types node:

<fieldType name="string_ci" class="solr.TextField" sortMissingLast="true" omitNorms="true">
                 <analyzer>
                      <tokenizer class="solr.KeywordTokenizerFactory"/>
                      <filter class="solr.LowerCaseFilterFactory" />
                 </analyzer>
                </fieldType>

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