topic Unable to search contents of MSOffice2007 word document in Alfresco Archive

Unable to search contents of MSOffice2007 word document

aliciac — Mon, 03 Nov 2008 08:06:04 GMT

Hi All,I've come across an issue in community Alfresco Lab 3b linux version where in the Web Client i try to do a search for a word that is contained in a MSOffice2007 word document (.docx), but the search result does not return the document. It can find titles of .docx files, just not content for .

Re: Unable to search contents of MSOffice2007 word document

sbuckle — Mon, 03 Nov 2008 10:41:02 GMT

I tried on a slightly earlier version and no luck either. OpenOffice 3.0, which was only released a few weeks ago has read-only support for .docx files so you could try upgrading to the latest version of that and hope it works - the reason I say this is that (I believe) most documents are converted to plain text first using the OpenOffice converter before they are indexed. You can't index a .docx file directly as it's a zip file - try unzipping it and you'll find all the appropriate XML files in there. If all else fails you might want to try converting the file to something that can be indexed before uploading it to Alfresco.

Re: Unable to search contents of MSOffice2007 word document

aliciac — Tue, 04 Nov 2008 06:39:48 GMT

Thanks for the tip. I will try upgrading to the new OpenOffice *fingers crossed

Re: Unable to search contents of MSOffice2007 word document

aliciac — Wed, 05 Nov 2008 08:06:12 GMT

Just to report back, i did the upgrade to OpenOffice 3 … and no luck. I still can't do a search for contents in a .docx file :cry:
I guess we'll just have to deal with it.

Re: Unable to search contents of MSOffice2007 word document

sbuckle — Wed, 05 Nov 2008 09:55:19 GMT

I had a look on the issue tracker and came across this:

https://issues.alfresco.com/jira/browse/ETWOTWO-767

Seems to be a known problem.