Add Documents to Your Solr Index from a Form

One document at a time, no code

Add documents from a form

The Data tab of Solr Admin adds documents to your index from a form: no code, no API call, no crawl. The form is built from the fields your index has, so it works on an empty index too.

The Data tab of Solr Admin: the search by meaning box, the id with a new unique value, author, description, text, title and uri with their Embed checkboxes, Add field, Add document and Clear values — The Data tab

01 · Where it is

Open the control panel of the index, click Solr Admin, then the Data tab. More about the other tabs: Solr Admin.

02 · The form

The first field is the unique id of the document, already filled with a new one. The round arrow next to it makes another.
Then come the fields your index requires, and its main text fields, such as title, description and text.
Under each name you see the type of the field, and whether it is required or takes several values.
Text fields get a large box; numbers, dates and true or false fields get the matching input.

03 · More fields

Add field lists every other field of your index.
Under Dynamic fields (you name them) are field patterns, such as meta_*: pick one and type the full name, for example meta_color.
A field that takes several values has an Add value button.
The × button next to a field takes it out of the form.

04 · Add the document

Fill in the fields you need. Empty fields are not sent.
Click Add document.
The document is in the index right away, and the tab shows it as your index returns it.

If a document with the same id is already in the index, the tab asks before going on: adding replaces that document completely. Clear values empties the form; Add another document starts a new one with a new id.

05 · What is checked

Every value must fit its field: whole numbers, numbers, dates, true or false.
Required fields need a value, and a field that takes one value takes only one.
When something does not fit, the tab says which field and why, and nothing is added.

06 · Search by meaning

The box above the form tells you whether your index can search by meaning. When it can, every text field has an Embed checkbox. Search by meaning: Embed.

07 · Many documents

The Data tab adds one document at a time. To send many at once, use Data Ingestion, or let Opensolr read your site with site crawling.