Blacklight is a multi-institutional open-source collaboration building a better discovery platform framework.

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Here’s how to get started customizing your application:

There are many ways to override specific behaviors and views in Blacklight. Because Blacklight is distributed as a Rails engine-based gem, all customization of Blacklight behavior should be done within your application by overriding Blacklight-provided behaviors with your own.

  1. To modify this text, you need to override the Blacklight-provided view. You can copy this file, located in the blacklight gem:
    to your own application:
  2. Index your own data into Solr
  3. Configure Blacklight to match your data and user-experience needs
  4. Get in touch with your comments, questions, and ideas

Blacklight 7.4.0