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Alfresco Share - Advanced Search requirements

systec — Wed, 28 Apr 2010 05:38:27 GMT

After implementing our own Advanced Search functionality within Alfresco Share, i thought i'd share some of the requirements our business users raised. Hopefully some of these may be considered in the Alfresco Share Advanced Search feature earmarked for Q4 2010 release. A document containing a some

Re: Alfresco Share - Advanced Search requirements

loftux — Wed, 28 Apr 2010 06:03:32 GMT

Nice writeup,
I think all of the requirements are supported in terms of lucene capability, and you can create those searches manually in the little search box today.
But this of course needs a search form.

I would like to put some emphasis on the search results list as well. The current search results list is just to plain simple. It needs
-Configurable columns
-Sortable columns
-Optional output format (like cvs, pdf etc)
-Optionally action menus - Take direct action on an item instead of having to go the the details page
-Filter kind of items in results

Re: Alfresco Share - Advanced Search requirements

loftux — Tue, 29 Jun 2010 11:19:58 GMT

Come to think of two more important things
- Default to AND in simple search, like google. Now it is OR. (and this was a bit off topic since it is about simple search)
- Handle tokenization/snowball analyzer for different locales. It is right now just to unpredictable what tokenization that has been used to index a document, and thus have it included in search. I.e a user may add a document via CIFS on a Swedish Windows (Alfresco index this using Swedish locale), but prefer English in Share web gui (search terms tokenization in English) => very unpredictable search results. Can your search locale be an option in advanced search?