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Multiple/Batch/Mass update controls for content metadata?

dwilson — Mon, 22 Dec 2008 19:52:38 GMT

Quick question- Are there multiple content update controls for meta data built in to the admin interface? I would like to be able to implement a mass change on some of my custom model meta data fields along with mass updates to categorization on certain data subsets.(I'm running Alfresco 2.9B with

Re: Multiple/Batch/Mass update controls for content metadata?

zaizi — Tue, 23 Dec 2008 09:21:30 GMT

No. There is no Admin UI to do this.

The easiest way to do this is to write a simple java script to search for the content and update the metadata. Upload this to the Data Dictionary and just run it.

Re: Multiple/Batch/Mass update controls for content metadata?

dwilson — Tue, 23 Dec 2008 09:39:02 GMT

Thanks for the reply! I was afraid that was the answer so had already started coding a test script.

I've created code in PHP to do just what you mention, though I notice Lucene defaults to returning only 1000 nodes in the query results even though I'm only searching attributes and not querying full text. (Perhaps this is only a limitation of the SOAP layer in PHP and not Java?)

I see the full text configuration here: http://wiki.alfresco.com/wiki/Full-Text_Search_Configuration . It doesn't seem like it, but If this is what is limiting my result set, what is a safe setting for the max returned nodes? 1000 isn't really enough in my case unless I go to the trouble of breaking up the batches.

Thanks,
Dave

Re: Multiple/Batch/Mass update controls for content metadata?

zaizi — Tue, 23 Dec 2008 10:56:11 GMT

Lucene by default returns only 1000 results after doing permission checks. This can be configured and ignored for specific searches. See this thread http://forums.alfresco.com/en/viewtopic.php?f=6&t=13381.

1000 is set so that search results are returned quickly to the user. In your use case, you can turn this off.