Confusion during initial exploration

[elyograg]

Here's the steps I followed:

• Cloned the git repo and built the .war file.
• Installed banana-0.war into Solr 5.2.1 with a slightly modified jetty context.
• Copied the 4.5 conf directory to a new core for Solr to find.
  • Tweaked the sorlconfig.xml a little bit, but left the schema alone.
• Restarted Solr.

At this point, when browsing to /banana, I got the dashboard, and an error saying it couldn't find collection1. I edited the dashboard config to point at the correct URL and core name, which fixed the error ... but then I discovered that the dashboard was trying to do a query on a field named event_timestamp ... which does not exist in the provided schema.xml file. Additional poking has determined that a "message" field may also be required, but that's not in the schema either.

Why is the dashboard trying to do a query on a field that hasn't been defined? What do I actually need to make all this work? I noticed that if I browse to the webapp with a new browser, my URL customizations are not present ... how do I make those persistent for everyone?

The README is lean on useful information. It does mention a webinar on SiLK, but when I click on the link, I cannot find the webinar.

I know quite a lot about Solr, but useful step-by-step instructions on getting a SiLK install up and running seem to be hard to find.