Content Types & Document Indexing - Opensolr Drupal Docs

Content Types

Tell the module which of your Drupal content types should appear in search results. This controls what the crawler indexes.

Where to configure

On the Settings tab (/admin/config/search/opensolr), scroll down to the "Content Types for Indexing" section.

Content Types for Indexing section showing checkboxes for Blog Post, News, Page, and Product types, plus Include attached files option — Content types checkboxes with attached files option

Selecting content types

You'll see a list of checkboxes with all your node types (Article, Page, etc.) and, if you have Drupal Commerce installed, your product types too.

Check the types you want searchable. Only pages of the selected types will be included in the auto-generated sitemap and indexed by the crawler.

💡 When to re-crawl

If you add or remove content types after your first crawl, click "Run Now" in the Go Live section to have the crawler pick up the changes.

Include attached files

Below the content type checkboxes, there's an "Include attached files" checkbox. When enabled:

The sitemap includes links to all PDF, DOCX, XLSX, PPTX, and ODT files attached to your content
The crawler downloads these files and extracts their text
Documents become searchable alongside your web pages
A Web / Documents tab appears on the search page so visitors can filter between web pages and files

Supported file types

PDF — text extraction from all pages
DOCX — Microsoft Word documents
XLSX — Microsoft Excel spreadsheets
PPTX — Microsoft PowerPoint presentations
ODT — OpenDocument text files

How it works under the hood

Generates an XML sitemap at /opensolr-sitemap.xml listing all published nodes of the selected types
Injects meta tags on each page so the crawler knows which fields to extract
The crawler visits each URL from the sitemap, reads the page content and meta tags, and adds everything to your search index

✅ Automatic sync

When you publish, update, or delete a node, the module automatically tells the crawler to re-index or remove that page. You don't need to manually trigger anything for individual content changes.

Commerce products

If you use Drupal Commerce, your product types appear in the same list. Products get special treatment:

Price and currency are injected as meta tags and become facetable fields
Product images become search result thumbnails
A price filter slider becomes available on the search page
Schema.org Product structured data is added automatically

Next step

After selecting your content types, head to Go Live & Crawling to start the crawler and make search available to your visitors.