Unparsing a custom facet
In many search applications, when we show the results of a user’s search, we also want to display the search that was done by putting the query string into a text box, especially if the search is built up from…
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A custom facet for the Search API
I recently got to teach the MarkLogic Essentials class for MarkLogic University. To illustrate custom facets, I implemented one on the fly with the class watching. No pressure. :) The good news is that it (almost) worked with the first…
Splitting data with Info Studio
Today we’ll play “Spot That Mistake”. This will probably be really easy for some but it threw me off for a bit. My goal I wanted to bring some data into MarkLogic Server just to give me something to work…
Expires headers in MarkLogic Server
A little while ago I ran YSlow, a Firefox plugin that evaluates how quickly a web page loads, against an Application Builder based app I’d written. YSlow gave my site a grade C, with an overall performance score of 71…
MarkLogic University
Last week I got to do something a little different — I got to teach a class for MarkLogic University, the training group within the company. It’s been years since I last got to formally teach a class, but I…
Searching for a range of dates
I learned something interesting today, so I thought I’d share. A colleague of mine wanted to figure out how to express a range of dates as a query string for an Application Builder app. These applications use the Search API, so…
Experimenting with AppBuilder’s rewriter
In a recent post, I wrote a tutorial showing how to add a view to an Application Builder-based application. As one step, I made a copy of the rewrite.xqy module under the custom directory so that I had an easy…
Querying across fragments
In MarkLogic Server, we tend to think about the documents that we put into the database. Most of the documentation, conversely, talks about fragments. I’ve had to learn some about fragments recently, so I figured I’d share. What are fragments?…
The empty query
A number of MarkLogic Server functions require a query as a parameter. Every now and then, however, you want to call one of those functions without specifying a query. There’s an easy way to handle this: you can use cts:and-query(())…
Adding a view to an App Builder application
This post is based on how MarkLogic’s Application Builder worked in MarkLogic versions 4 and 5; it does not apply to versions 6+. In my last post, I showed how to add maps to the front page of a MarkLogic…