Merging previous search assets to the new version

Your previous search customizations must be merged back into WebSphere Commerce Version 8.

Procedure

  1. If you customized the WebSphere Commerce Search preprocessor configuration files, manually merge the changes back into the new version:
    1. Go to the following directory:
      • WC_installdir/instances/instance_name/search/pre-processConfig
    2. Manually compare all the files in the MC_masterCatalogId.timestamp directory with the files in the MC_masterCatalogId directory.
    3. Identify all the changed files, and merge the specific previous version changes from the MC_masterCatalogId.timestamp directory to the files with the same names in the MC_masterCatalogId directory.
  2. If you customized the default Solr configuration files, manually merge the changes back into the new Solr configuration files, since you cannot extend these files.
    1. Go to the following directory:
      • solrhome/MC_masterCatalogId/locale_name/indextype
    2. For each core, manually compare the solrconfig.xml, wc-data-config.xml, and schema.xml files in the conf.timestamp directory with the files in the conf directory.
    3. Identify all the changed files, and merge the specific previous version changes from the conf.timestamp directory to the files with the same names in the conf directory.