topic Re: 3.2 CE not indexing documents in Alfresco Archive

3.2 CE not indexing documents

brijniersce — Fri, 17 Jul 2009 22:18:05 GMT

Hello,I just my first install of Alfresco. It's the 3.2 CE on a Windows 2003 server. Installation went thru without any hitches, have been playing with it quite and a bit. very nice!I've noticed however that Alfresco does not seem to look inside the test (Word) documents I have imported. It does not

Re: 3.2 CE not indexing documents

_sax — Mon, 20 Jul 2009 09:40:57 GMT

You'd like to verify, that there is a usable connection between Alfresco and OpenOffice.
To do so, please add this line to log4j.properties

# OpenOfficeConnection
log4j.logger.net.sf.jooreports.openoffice.connection=info

At your next Alfresco startup, there will be a message about the validity of the connection when the process nears its end.
That will inform you, if the connection was (re)established, or an inital conecction could not be set up.

Re: 3.2 CE not indexing documents

brijniersce — Mon, 20 Jul 2009 17:44:17 GMT

You'd like to verify, that there is a usable connection between Alfresco and OpenOffice.
To do so, please add this line to log4j.properties

# OpenOfficeConnection
log4j.logger.net.sf.jooreports.openoffice.connection=info

Hi Sax,

I'll try that. I'm an Alfresco beginner, what file to check for output 😉

Tx
Bas

Re: 3.2 CE not indexing documents

_sax — Wed, 22 Jul 2009 13:23:20 GMT

Hi Bas,

this would be alfresco.log in your Alfresco folder or Alfresco/tomcat/logs/catalina.out, the latter being more verbose.

Re: 3.2 CE not indexing documents

brijniersce — Wed, 22 Jul 2009 17:11:17 GMT

Hmmm,

It says that it started OK.. I then realized I had been checking in docx files up to now. I tested with a Office 2003 DOC and the metadata I put in still does not get read, but it does seem to find the contents now.

I'm using Start -> Prepare -> Properties to add things like Title etc. That should be visible to Alfresco correct? It does not show in the Metadata Title field.

Q1) Are there issues with Docx?
Q2) Is that the correct way to add metadata using Word

tx!
Bas

Re: 3.2 CE not indexing documents

_sax — Fri, 24 Jul 2009 09:44:32 GMT

Docx was a longer standing problem, yes. http://issues.alfresco.com should inform you, if that was resolved (with a search for docx).

Your custom metadata fields have to be mapped to Alfresco fields.
http://wiki.alfresco.com/wiki/Metadata_Extraction

There seems to be an issue alongside this option
https://issues.alfresco.com/jira/browse/ALFCOM-1757