Bug 35794

Summary: Better docs for switching from Zebra to Elasticsearch
Product: Koha Reporter: Magnus Enger <magnus>
Component: DocumentationAssignee: Bugs List <koha-bugs>
Status: NEW --- QA Contact: Testopia <testopia>
Severity: enhancement    
Priority: P5 - low CC: dcook
Version: Main   
Hardware: All   
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Description Magnus Enger 2024-01-12 15:17:58 UTC
The documentation around the SearchEngine syspref bsically says "Use following search engine [Zebra|Elasticsearch]", both in the manual and in the syspref interface: 

https://koha-community.org/manual/latest/en/html/administrationpreferences.html#searchengine

But in order for things to work properly there are at least a couple of things that need to be started on the server: 

- koha-es-indexer 
- koha-worker --queue elastic_index

This might be documented somewhere that I am be missing, but I think there should be at least a hint about these things both in the manual and in the syspref interface.
Comment 1 David Cook 2024-09-03 02:13:00 UTC
Yeah, I've been thinking about this a bit lately as well. Good idea.
Comment 2 Magnus Enger 2024-09-03 06:08:46 UTC
"koha-worker --queue elastic_index" should not be used, though. Only "koha-es-indexer".