topic Using the Office Add-In Search and customizing it in Alfresco Archive https://connect.hyland.com/t5/alfresco-archive/using-the-office-add-in-search-and-customizing-it/m-p/198267#M151397 <HTML><HEAD></HEAD><BODY><SPAN>I am trying to use the </SPAN><STRONG>Office Add-In searc</STRONG><SPAN>h as a sample and able to customize it according to my requirements. The problem I wanted to set the authentication to 'none' , but it gives an error as&nbsp; 500 error as&nbsp; 'companyhome' is not initialised .</SPAN><BR /><BR /><SPAN>The .desc.xml is something like </SPAN><BR /><PRE class="language-none line-numbers"><CODE>&lt;webscript&gt;<BR />&nbsp; &lt;shortname&gt;CCIL Document Search (Month Wise)&lt;/shortname&gt;<BR />&nbsp; &lt;description&gt;Generate the CCIL Add-In Search page (Month Wise)&lt;/description&gt;<BR />&nbsp; &lt;url&gt;/abc/abcMonthSearch?p={path?}&lt;/url&gt;<BR />&nbsp; &lt;authentication&gt;none&lt;/authentication&gt;<BR />&nbsp; &lt;transaction&gt;required&lt;/transaction&gt;<BR />&lt;/webscript&gt;<SPAN class="line-numbers-rows"><SPAN>‍</SPAN><SPAN>‍</SPAN><SPAN>‍</SPAN><SPAN>‍</SPAN><SPAN>‍</SPAN><SPAN>‍</SPAN><SPAN>‍</SPAN></SPAN></CODE></PRE><BR /><SPAN>When I make the &lt;authentication&gt; as 'user' it asks for a valid uid /pwd (which is OK , but I do not want that)</SPAN><BR /><BR /><SPAN>And the snippet of .ftl file is something like </SPAN><BR /><BR /><PRE class="language-none line-numbers"><CODE>&lt;#if args.p?exists&gt;&lt;#assign path=args.p&gt;&lt;#else&gt;&lt;#assign path=""&gt;&lt;/#if&gt;<BR />&lt;#if args.n?exists&gt;&lt;#assign node=args.n&gt;&lt;#else&gt;&lt;#assign node=companyhome&gt;&lt;/#if&gt;<BR />&lt;#if args.e?exists&gt;&lt;#assign extn=args.e&gt;&lt;#else&gt;&lt;#assign extn="doc"&gt;&lt;/#if&gt;&lt;#assign extnx=extn+"x"&gt;<BR />&lt;#if args.n?exists&gt;&lt;#assign nav=args.n&gt;&lt;#else&gt;&lt;#assign nav=""&gt;&lt;/#if&gt;<BR /><BR />&lt;#if (args.maxresults?exists)&gt;&lt;#assign maxResults=args.maxresults&gt;&lt;#else&gt;&lt;#assign maxResults="5"&gt;&lt;/#if&gt;<BR />&lt;#if (args.month1?exists)&gt;&lt;#assign month1=args.month1&gt;&lt;#else&gt;&lt;#assign month1=""&gt;&lt;/#if&gt;<BR />&lt;#if (args.year1?exists)&gt;&lt;#assign year1=args.year1&gt;&lt;#else&gt;&lt;#assign year1="2008"&gt;&lt;/#if&gt;<BR /><BR />&lt;#if (args.catg?exists)&gt;&lt;#assign catg=args.catg&gt;&lt;#else&gt;&lt;#assign catg=""&gt;&lt;/#if&gt;<BR />&lt;#assign defaultQuery="?p=" + path?url + "&amp;e=" + extn + "&amp;n=" + nav&gt;<BR />&lt;#assign searchCommand="OfficeSearch.runSearch('${url.serviceContext}/abc/abcMonthSearchResults', '${defaultQuery}'" &gt;<BR />&lt;!DOCTYPE html PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD XHTML 1.0 Strict//EN" "<A href="http://www.w3.org/TR/xhtml1/DTD/xhtml1-strict.dtd" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer">http://www.w3.org/TR/xhtml1/DTD/xhtml1-strict.dtd</A>"&gt;<BR />&lt;html&gt;<BR />&lt;head&gt;<BR />&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&lt;title&gt;CCIL Month wise Search&lt;/title&gt;<BR />&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;<BR />&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&lt;link rel="stylesheet" type="text/css" href="${url.context}/css/monthSearch.css" /&gt;<BR />&lt;!–[if IE 6]&gt;<BR />&nbsp;&nbsp; &lt;link rel="stylesheet" type="text/css" href="${url.context}/css/monthSearch_ie6.css" /&gt;<BR />&lt;![endif]–&gt;<BR />&nbsp;&nbsp; &lt;script type="text/javascript" src="${url.context}/scripts/ajax/mootools.v1.11.js"&gt;&lt;/script&gt;<BR />&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&lt;script type="text/javascript" src="${url.context}/scripts/office/office_addin.js"&gt;&lt;/script&gt;<BR />&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&lt;script type="text/javascript" src="${url.context}/scripts/office/abc_monthsearch.js"&gt;&lt;/script&gt;<BR />&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; <BR />&nbsp;&nbsp; &lt;script type="text/javascript"&gt;//&lt;![CDATA[<BR />&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; OfficeAddin.defaultQuery = '${defaultQuery}';<BR />&nbsp;&nbsp; //]]&gt;&lt;/script&gt;<BR />&lt;/head&gt;<SPAN class="line-numbers-rows"><SPAN>‍</SPAN><SPAN>‍</SPAN><SPAN>‍</SPAN><SPAN>‍</SPAN><SPAN>‍</SPAN><SPAN>‍</SPAN><SPAN>‍</SPAN><SPAN>‍</SPAN><SPAN>‍</SPAN><SPAN>‍</SPAN><SPAN>‍</SPAN><SPAN>‍</SPAN><SPAN>‍</SPAN><SPAN>‍</SPAN><SPAN>‍</SPAN><SPAN>‍</SPAN><SPAN>‍</SPAN><SPAN>‍</SPAN><SPAN>‍</SPAN><SPAN>‍</SPAN><SPAN>‍</SPAN><SPAN>‍</SPAN><SPAN>‍</SPAN><SPAN>‍</SPAN><SPAN>‍</SPAN><SPAN>‍</SPAN><SPAN>‍</SPAN><SPAN>‍</SPAN><SPAN>‍</SPAN></SPAN></CODE></PRE><BR /><SPAN>And the error is something like(if I set the authentication as none) :</SPAN><BR /><BR /><BLOCKQUOTE class="jive-quote">500 Description: An error inside the HTTP server which prevented it from fulfilling the request.&nbsp; <BR />&nbsp;&nbsp; <BR />Message: Error during processing of the template 'Error on line 2, column 48 in abcMonthSearch.get.html.ftl companyhome is undefined. It cannot be assigned to node'. Please contact your system administrator.&nbsp; <BR />&nbsp;&nbsp; <BR />Exception: freemarker.core.InvalidReferenceException - Error on line 2, column 48 in abcLMonthSearch.get.html.ftl companyhome is undefined. It cannot be assigned to node</BLOCKQUOTE><SPAN> </SPAN><BR /><BR /><SPAN>Any help or Pointers are welcome ..</SPAN></BODY></HTML> Tue, 11 Nov 2008 05:20:37 GMT abirb 2008-11-11T05:20:37Z Using the Office Add-In Search and customizing it https://connect.hyland.com/t5/alfresco-archive/using-the-office-add-in-search-and-customizing-it/m-p/198267#M151397 I am trying to use the Office Add-In search as a sample and able to customize it according to my requirements. The problem I wanted to set the authentication to 'none' , but it gives an error as&nbsp; 500 error as&nbsp; 'companyhome' is not initialised .The .desc.xml is something like &lt;webscript&gt;&nbsp; &lt;s Tue, 11 Nov 2008 05:20:37 GMT https://connect.hyland.com/t5/alfresco-archive/using-the-office-add-in-search-and-customizing-it/m-p/198267#M151397 abirb 2008-11-11T05:20:37Z Re: Using the Office Add-In Search and customizing it https://connect.hyland.com/t5/alfresco-archive/using-the-office-add-in-search-and-customizing-it/m-p/198268#M151398 <HTML><HEAD></HEAD><BODY><SPAN>You can't have no authentication and access to the Repository at the same time. Your best option is to use "guest" authentication and then append "guest=true" to the request URL.</SPAN><BR /><BR /><SPAN>Mike</SPAN></BODY></HTML> Tue, 11 Nov 2008 08:32:51 GMT https://connect.hyland.com/t5/alfresco-archive/using-the-office-add-in-search-and-customizing-it/m-p/198268#M151398 mikeh 2008-11-11T08:32:51Z Re: Using the Office Add-In Search and customizing it https://connect.hyland.com/t5/alfresco-archive/using-the-office-add-in-search-and-customizing-it/m-p/198269#M151399 <HTML><HEAD></HEAD><BODY><SPAN>thanks again Mike, I need to do some testing .. till now its fine with passing it with the URL</SPAN></BODY></HTML> Tue, 11 Nov 2008 11:33:29 GMT https://connect.hyland.com/t5/alfresco-archive/using-the-office-add-in-search-and-customizing-it/m-p/198269#M151399 abirb 2008-11-11T11:33:29Z