topic Re: Custom Property and Advanced Search in Alfresco Archive

Custom Property and Advanced Search

richardgunderse — Mon, 17 Mar 2008 23:09:35 GMT

HiI can't do an advanced search on my custom property. It all seems configured correctly, I can see the value on the details screen for one of my documents, and I can see it appearing as a new search field in the Advanced Search field. But, when I do a search on it, I get no results found, even thou

Re: Custom Property and Advanced Search

richardgunderse — Tue, 18 Mar 2008 23:44:52 GMT

After reading a previous post, I found that I can define the field as d:content, and then in the simple search, my custom field is included in the search.

This is fine for now, but I saw that the enhancement was made some time ago to allow the custom properties to be searchable (Advanced Search).

Would still really appreciate any help. My deadline is tomorrow….! :shock:

Re: Custom Property and Advanced Search

stefano — Wed, 19 Mar 2008 11:10:09 GMT

This is an interesting question… can you post also the URL of the post related to d:content ?
Thank you

Re: Custom Property and Advanced Search

richardgunderse — Wed, 19 Mar 2008 11:59:25 GMT

Hi Stefano

Thanks for replying to my message. The post I found is this one

http://forums.alfresco.com/viewtopic.php?f=3&t=421&p=1524&hilit=atomic#p1524

If you look at the 4th entry (by Andy) he mentions that it is an enhancement in the JIRA. The JIRA though, looks as though the issue was fixed some time ago, so it should be in my version of the Alfresco code (I only downloaded it 2 weeks ago).

I wonder if it's something to do with how I have defined my aspect. Do my custom properties need to explicitly extend 'content'? I thought that happened automatically?

Any help you can give me would be really good.

Thanks

Re: Custom Property and Advanced Search

richardgunderse — Thu, 20 Mar 2008 09:28:44 GMT

If somebody has done this before, in the current version of Alfresco, I would really appreciate knowing the steps you performed to

1) Define the custom properties in the aspect (including indexing settings etc if relevant. An working XML sample would be great to compare with)
2) Configure the advanced search via the web client config XML file

I've followed a few tutorials now, and everything *seems* ok, but the search just refuses to bring back results that I know are there.

Thanks

Re: Custom Property and Advanced Search

richardgunderse — Wed, 26 Mar 2008 17:50:17 GMT

Anyone please?

Re: Custom Property and Advanced Search

poptarts — Tue, 20 May 2008 19:45:00 GMT

I would love an answer to this myself. I went through the same steps and I could never get it to work.

Re: Custom Property and Advanced Search

davidd — Mon, 21 Jul 2008 11:39:17 GMT

I am trying to do this as well

Re: Custom Property and Advanced Search

rockycres — Wed, 22 Apr 2009 13:06:46 GMT

Hi Friends,

I got the results for custom property in advance search page.In BrowseBean.java file,search parameters are there to get the results,in that storeref is one the parameter.In storeref parameter,value stored is workspace,but our webprojects are getting stored in AVM, so we are not able to get the custom property results.
i have changed the store ref value to avm.But i have hardcoded it.Hardcoding is not good way.Iam searching an alternate way to get the storeref as avm.

Friends if u find any solutions for this.Please post it

Re: Custom Property and Advanced Search

liao1108 — Wed, 17 Jun 2009 06:43:58 GMT

After reading a previous post, I found that I can define the field as d:content, and then in the simple search, my custom field is included in the search.

This is fine for now, but I saw that the enhancement was made some time ago to allow the custom properties to be searchable (Advanced Search).

Would still really appreciate any help. My deadline is tomorrow….! :shock:

But define property as d:content make the field un-editable, don't you ?