topic Re: Remove 3 character limit for text fields in advanced search? in Alfresco Archive

Remove 3 character limit for text fields in advanced search?

alexandra — Thu, 03 Jan 2008 02:13:51 GMT

I have found that there seem to be a requirement to use at least 3 characters in some of the text filed to do an advanced search. I would like to create a few saved searches based on a single value in one of my custom properties to be able to list all documents with value "xyz" in that particular p

Re: Remove 3 character limit for text fields in advanced search?

mikef — Thu, 03 Jan 2008 13:25:14 GMT

The min number of search charaters is defined in (for Tomcat):

alfresco\WEB-INF\classes\alfresco\web-client-config.xml

You can override this in
shared\classes\alfresco\extension\web-client-config-custom.xml

Add or update the following entry:
   <config>
      <client>
             <search-minimum>3</search-minimum>
      </client>
   </config>

Re: Remove 3 character limit for text fields in advanced search?

alexandra — Sun, 27 Jan 2008 20:36:23 GMT

Thank you!

Shouldn't that be the default configuration?

Otherwise the powerful feature of saving searches with just different set of metadata values does not work for most installations. Just as Smart Playlists in iTunes is really powerful it is powerful in an ECM-platform such as Alfresco.

Re: Remove 3 character limit for text fields in advanced search?

alexandra — Sun, 27 Jan 2008 20:51:22 GMT

Hmm…was a bit too quick to answer before. I tried modifying that parameter in web-client-config-custom.xml but that change does not seem to "take". Neither modifications in web-client-config.xml seem to work.

I have restarted and cleaned the caches. Any ideas why it does not work?