topic Re: Advanced search using Alfresco in Alfresco Archive

Advanced search using Alfresco

midhun — Fri, 30 Jan 2009 15:45:17 GMT

Hi, Could any one tell how the advanced search canbe done through web sevice .Basically we are trying to use alfresco inside liferay portal and we need the advanced search option to be performed from Liferay while the contents are in alfresco repository .Could managed to get some simple

Re: Advanced search using Alfresco

openpj — Fri, 30 Jan 2009 17:18:22 GMT

You could create a Webscript exposed as a portlet on LifeRay.
If LifeRay is deployed in the same application server instance of Alfresco, you can expose Webscripts as portlets.

Then you can create two Webscripts:
- a Webscript to render a custom form to show all your custom params to use during a search;
- an other webscript that takes in input all the parameters from the first Webscript and submit the search and show the results.

In this example you can not use Web Service interface.

Otherwise you can implement in an easy way this feature implementing the same Webscripts but in a different way to send parameters.
You could create custom actions (Webscripts) that you can call from Web Service.
For more details:

http://forums.alfresco.com/en/viewtopic.php?f=27&t=16444#p54240

Hope this helps.

Re: Advanced search using Alfresco

midhun — Sat, 31 Jan 2009 12:42:55 GMT

Thanks for your reply . I have one more quey
1, Is it posible to diplay auditing information from alfresco inside Liferay using webservice ?.Does webservice support auditing and file hit counter methods? to call it from out side alfresco

Re: Advanced search using Alfresco

openpj — Sun, 01 Feb 2009 15:32:06 GMT

Auditing in Alfresco is disabled by default , to enable it you can follow instructions here in the wiki:

http://wiki.alfresco.com/wiki/Audit_Configuration

Then you can create a custom Webscript to show auditing information (as you can see in the example in the wiki) as a Custom Action for your Web Service call, in the same way I suggest you in the previous reply.
But if LifeRay is installed in the same instance of the application server where you have deployed Alfresco, you can expose a Webscript (auditing informations) as a portlet in LifeRay without using Web Service calls :wink:

Hope this helps.