topic Re: Wrong results using search in Alfresco Archive

Wrong results using search

jumpm7 — Tue, 24 Feb 2009 09:48:36 GMT

Hallo,I found a very stange problem in our Alfresco installation (v 2.1): the search function gives different results if I change the language (and all the outher parameters are the same: user and keyword searched)!!!!!!!More specifically, we are using Italian package. So when the user login he choo

Re: Wrong results using search

mrogers — Tue, 24 Feb 2009 15:21:49 GMT

Search via lucene queries is locale specific, this is why you are getting different results.

http://wiki.alfresco.com/wiki/Search#Searching_Multilingual_Text_Fields

Re: Wrong results using search

jumpm7 — Wed, 25 Feb 2009 08:11:50 GMT

woaw! Now I understand… Really we are not in a multilanguage enviroment, but adding the Italian language I did this entry in web-client-config-custom.xml:

   <config evaluator="string-compare" condition="Languages">
      <languages>
         <language locale="it_IT">Italian</language>
     </languages>
   </config>

Therefore at login the users have the choise between English (default) and Italian. Most of the times the users login with Italian (changing the default) but sometimes the log with English. So, if I got how is working, it looks like the objects created with one language are in a different set from the point of wiev of lucene.
Now I have set properly the language selection to force only italian modifing the entry in such way:

   <config evaluator="string-compare" condition="Languages" replace="true">
      <languages>
         <language locale="it_IT">Italian</language>
     </languages>
   </config>

Well I will follow deeply yuor link to lucene docs and I will try to solve the situation. Anyway, if you have some ideas to solve this little mess I would be really grateful. 🙂

Thanks a lot

Gianpaolo

Re: Wrong results using search

jumpm7 — Thu, 26 Feb 2009 07:38:41 GMT

Well.. I have to be honest: it's not so easy for me understand deeply lucene behaviour
What I got are some guidelines and basic concepts but not enougth to solve the problem. I had a look also at Munwar Shariff's book in search section: it's seems possible to "convert" all the object to only one language but it's not explained how. Could that be a solution? I really need a strong help otherwise I'll take a very long time to get out :shock:

Many thanks for the help.

Gianpaolo