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Alfresco Share Search in Metadata

joaotpd — Thu, 18 Feb 2010 14:14:48 GMT

Hi all!I'm using Alfresco Share 3.2r2… I develop a new Content Model for working with new types of content. The new types have new properties.Example:New type: test_type;New property: test_property.<type name="my:test_type"> <properties> <property name="my:test_property">

Re: Alfresco Share Search in Metadata

sselvan — Sat, 20 Feb 2010 18:02:16 GMT

Hi,

I am also facing the same issue. If you have already found any clue to this, please let me know.

Thank you

Re: Alfresco Share Search in Metadata

sselvan — Sat, 20 Feb 2010 18:20:04 GMT

Features list of Alfresco Community Edition 3.2 says that there is Single field for Search searching across full text and metadata.

http://wiki.alfresco.com/wiki/Alfresco_Community_Edition_3.2_Share_Feature_List#Search

But it does not work. I assume by the above statement that search on metadata should work by default without any configuration, but looks like it is not.
I tried the same in my Alfresco Explorer, the metadata search works.

I am wondering - the search in Alfresco Share for Metadata has to be configured…

Someone please advice…Did it work in previous versions? Any help is appreciated.

Re: Alfresco Share Search in Metadata

sselvan — Mon, 22 Feb 2010 08:06:09 GMT

A somewhat similar thing has been done in Alfresco as per http://forums.alfresco.com/en/viewtopic.php?f=29&t=22234&p=81834.

<config>
   <client>
      <search-max-results>100</search-max-results>
         <simple-search-additional-attributes>
            <qname>
               {http://www.alfresco.org/model/content/1.0}description
            </qname>
         </simple-search-additional-attributes>
   </client>
</config>‍‍‍‍‍‍‍‍‍‍

I also added the same code snippet (of web-client-config-custom.xml) like the above post in web-framework-config-custom.xml OR share-config-custom.xml, but that did not help anything.

Any help is appreciated!

Thank you

Re: Alfresco Share Search in Metadata

ssaravanan — Tue, 23 Feb 2010 13:35:57 GMT

I tried as well, I logged into share.alfresco.com and uploaded a pdf, edited the metadata ,
added some text to the description , then searched for the keyword in the description,
which didn't fetch any results.
As Kevin referred http://forums.alfresco.com/en/viewtopic.php?f=48&t=18994#p62343 need to write a
data webscript on the repo side, to have metadata search in Share.

Re: Alfresco Share Search in Metadata

kevinr — Fri, 26 Feb 2010 11:46:22 GMT

In Share 3.3 it is possible to search individual document properties, such as author, modifier, modified etc. The search has been improved to allow complex queries and quoted phrases etc. also.

Kev

Re: Alfresco Share Search in Metadata

billerby — Fri, 26 Feb 2010 14:05:51 GMT

Without knowledge of Share one thing that pops up is that you have not indexed your property. Without indexing the field wont be found. Try this:


<property name="my:test_property">
    <title>Title</title>
    <type>d:text</type>
    <mandatory>false</mandatory>
    <index enabled="true">
   <atomic>false</atomic>
   <stored>false</stored>
        <tokenised>true</tokenised>
    </index>
</property> 
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That solved the problem for me in Alfresco Explorer and I guess it should fix it in Share as well.

Thanks!
/Erik

Re: Alfresco Share Search in Metadata

sselvan — Fri, 26 Feb 2010 15:47:28 GMT

@billerby
thanks for your response.
Even with index setting share search on metadata did not work for me.

Re: Alfresco Share Search in Metadata

joaotpd — Fri, 26 Feb 2010 16:57:00 GMT

Hi billerby!!

Thanks for your response!!
With "index" won't work too!! … and in Alfresco Explorer only work if you configure Advanced Search (in web-client-config)… Simple search return nothing…
Another thing… I read here:http://wiki.alfresco.com/wiki/Full-Text_Search_Configuration that properties, by default, are indexed atomically…
If you search for the value of the property in simple search you obtain results?! …
Thanks again…

João Duarte

Re: Alfresco Share Search in Metadata

billerby — Mon, 01 Mar 2010 10:34:58 GMT

I must have dreamt it worked for me in the Explorer interface. I tried it again now with no luck. It turns out that even if the metadata properties are indexed, they are not searched by the simple search. Not in Explorer nor in Share. However in the Alfresco Explorer this in configurable through the web-client-config-custom.xml, but you have to tell property by property which ones to be searchable.

http://wiki.alfresco.com/wiki/Web_Client_Customisation_FAQ#Adding_Properties_to_Simple_Search

I dont know if there is an equal option for Share.

/Erik

Re: Alfresco Share Search in Metadata

ip-techlabs — Wed, 10 Mar 2010 16:04:38 GMT

Hi everybody,

I agree with ssaravanan, indeed you have to add a data web script that is able to search in other properties other than the default ones (title, description …)

We already implemented advanced search in one of our Alfresco Share projects and we shared it with community.

Search forms are configured in "share-config-custom.xml", their markup is generated by the Forms Service and much more …

Refer to the following article for more details: http://www.iptechinside.com/labs/documents/show/3

Download: http://forge.alfresco.com/frs/?group_id=242 or http://www.iptechinside.com/labs/projects/list_files/alfrescoshare

Feel free to ask questions if you have any problem …

Regards

Re: Alfresco Share Search in Metadata

eddiem — Fri, 12 Mar 2010 14:07:39 GMT

Hi,
I've implemented your extended search on Share 3.2 CE (thanks for contributing thhis to the Alf community) however, I can't get it to display: It shows the show/hide button but not any of the form controls:

(ps I installed by stopping Alf & unzipping the appropriate files in Alfresco & Share)

Any suggestions,
Thanks
Eddie

Re: Alfresco Share Search in Metadata

ip-techlabs — Sun, 14 Mar 2010 01:30:21 GMT

Hi Eddie,

I suspect that version you have is "3.2r2 CE" and not "3.2 CE", can you do that check for me please ?

Regards,

Re: Alfresco Share Search in Metadata

eddiem — Sun, 14 Mar 2010 09:33:50 GMT

Hi,
Thanks for your response - we are running running 3.2 CE, not 3.2.r.

We have installed the forms 32 examples - could this be a cause?

Any other suggestions?

Thanks
Eddie

Re: Alfresco Share Search in Metadata

ip-techlabs — Sun, 14 Mar 2010 12:54:27 GMT

Hi Eddie,

I'll install forms32 and see what's going wrong.

Regards

Re: Alfresco Share Search in Metadata

eddiem — Sun, 14 Mar 2010 18:17:21 GMT

Hi,
Thanks for this.
Eddie

Re: Alfresco Share Search in Metadata

ip-techlabs — Mon, 15 Mar 2010 16:08:35 GMT

Hi Eddie,

In the meanwhile, can you try to add the advanced search extension to a clean new Alfresco installation (3.2 CE of course) instead of the one you're working on ?

Let me know what happenend.

Thanks,

Re: Alfresco Share Search in Metadata

ip-techlabs — Wed, 17 Mar 2010 13:22:58 GMT

Hi Eddie,

Is there any new ?

Regards,

Re: Alfresco Share Search in Metadata

zomurn — Tue, 20 Jul 2010 13:13:05 GMT

IP-TechLabs > I had a look at your search form. The result is was a lot of people is waiting for from Alfresco Team. Very unfortunately, your version is dedicated to Alfresco CE 3.2r2. I'am working on Alfresco 3.3.1 EE at the moment, I had a look at your source code (mainly webscripts) and it is really a mess and unmergeable with my Alfresco 3.3.1 EE source code. I regret that I would have to say to my business team : it is an "unsupported feature" for the moment. That's a pity .

Re: Alfresco Share Search in Metadata

cmarguello — Tue, 11 Jan 2011 15:01:41 GMT

Any solution for add properties for simple search in share?
I have an advanced search in Alfresco Community v3.4.0, and it works fine in share with my custon type (amw, parent: content).
In my advanced search i search for properties from my custom type and cm:name and works ok.
But when i put the name in keywords field, nothing happend.

In share-custom-config.xml i add the form for my type.
And in the config for the type… i put

 
<config evaluator="model-type" condition="amw:contratoEmpresario">
  <forms>
    <form id="search">
      <simple-search-additional-attributes>
   <qname>cm:name</qname>
   <qname>amw:cedula</qname>
   <qname>amw:codigo</qname>
      </simple-search-additional-attributes>
      …..
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I also try

       <simple-search-additional-attributes>
       <qname>name</qname>
       <qname>cedula</qname>
            <qname>codigo</qname>
        </simple-search-additional-attributes>
‍‍‍‍‍‍

But didnt work anyway.
Thanks