topic Re: Share advanced search for Sites in Alfresco Archive

Share advanced search for Sites

nikes — Wed, 08 Dec 2010 09:16:47 GMT

Hi All,Can we configure site search in Advanced Search page in 3.4.*?I followed steps from wiki page http://wiki.alfresco.com/wiki/Share_Advanced_Search, but search doesn't return any result when I search for Sites.What type of Nodes we can search using Advanced Search form?Nikesh

Re: Share advanced search for Sites

kevinr — Wed, 08 Dec 2010 14:59:50 GMT

Do you mean the st:site node type or are you doing something else…? st:site nodes extend directly from cm:folder so yes in theory it should be quite possible to find those and display them. However in the results they will look like folders - that may not be what you wanted…!

Re: Share advanced search for Sites

nikes — Thu, 09 Dec 2010 05:54:12 GMT

Thanks for the quick reply.

Do you mean the st:site node type or are you doing something else…?

Yes. I would like to search "st:site" node type.
We are adding an aspect to Create Site page, so all sites has custom aspect attached.
I would like to display custom aspect property search form for site.

Though there is a search site page available out-of-the box, our requirement is to have Advanced Share Search for all types of node.

I have one more question.
Is it possible to configure search form for custom property search?
What I see from Advanced Search wiki page is the configuration for TYPE and not for the ASPECT.

Thanks,
Nikesh

Re: Share advanced search for Sites

kevinr — Thu, 09 Dec 2010 14:30:52 GMT

You can search any properties, custom or standard alfresco ones - but currently types not aspects. However you can configure the same type multiple times, add and search fields for custom aspects to a config for a particular type.

Kev

Re: Share advanced search for Sites

stevegreenbaum — Fri, 14 Jan 2011 19:58:53 GMT

Is the ability to search for the presence of an aspect or the ability to search on the value of a property within an aspect on the roadmap for the advanced search screen? If so, which release?

Re: Share advanced search for Sites

kevinr — Mon, 17 Jan 2011 11:02:17 GMT

You can search on a property from an aspect right now - all properties are unique in Alfresco, so configuring in the property is irrelevant to what type/aspect it comes from.

You can search for an aspect now in Advanced and Simple search using the fts-alfresco syntax:
ASPECT:"cm:versionable"

But obviously that isn't UI so adding the ability to search for a specific Aspect in the advanced search UI is on the roadmap for the next major release.

Cheers,

Kev

Re: Share advanced search for Sites

alarocca — Fri, 28 Jan 2011 12:00:00 GMT

I would like to search for properties of my custom aspect (cs:conservabile). As suggested, if I write ASPECT:"cs:conservabile" as search query, I find the only document having that aspect applied.

Anyway, in order to have a usable user interface, I created a new advanced search form for cm:content including the properties the aspect. It appears as expected but, unfortunately, it does not return any document if I specify a value for one of the aspect properties (cs:codice-fiscale or csartita-iva). Searching for title propertis (it should be an aspect property too) works. Any hint? How can I debug the query executed from Share?

The following is the configuration I'm using:


   <config evaluator="string-compare" condition="AdvancedSearch">
   <advanced-search>
      <forms>
         <form id="search2" label="Conservazione" description="Cerca documenti conservati o da conservare">cm:content</form>
      </forms>
   </advanced-search>
   </config>

   <config evaluator="model-type" condition="cm:content">
   <forms>
      <form id="search2">
         <field-visibility>
            <show id="cm:name" />
            <show id="cm:title" force="true" />
            <show id="cs:partita-iva" force="true" />
            <show id="cs:codice-fiscale" force="true" />
         </field-visibility>
         <appearance>
            <field id="cm:title">
               <control template="/org/alfresco/components/form/controls/textfield.ftl" />
            </field>
            <field id="cs:partita-iva">
               <control template="/org/alfresco/components/form/controls/textfield.ftl" />
            </field>
            <field id="cs:codice-fiscale">
               <control template="/org/alfresco/components/form/controls/textfield.ftl" />
            </field>
         </appearance>
      </form>
   </forms>
   </config>
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Re: Share advanced search for Sites

stevegreenbaum — Fri, 28 Jan 2011 12:26:38 GMT

I am able to successfully search on the value of a property of an aspect in the advanced search screen simply by adding that property to the form.

Re: Share advanced search for Sites

alarocca — Fri, 28 Jan 2011 13:07:00 GMT

Is your configuration as mine? Which version are you using? Mine is 3.4c Community Edition

I am able to successfully search on the value of a property of an aspect in the advanced search screen simply by adding that property to the form.

Re: Share advanced search for Sites

stevegreenbaum — Fri, 28 Jan 2011 13:31:24 GMT

Yes, 3.4c.

Which property in your configuration is from the aspect?

Re: Share advanced search for Sites

alarocca — Fri, 28 Jan 2011 13:47:08 GMT

Properties from the aspect have "cs" prefix: cs:codice-fiscale and csartita-iva.

Search from Alfresco Explorer works perfectly.

Which property in your configuration is from the aspect?

Re: Share advanced search for Sites

alarocca — Sat, 19 Feb 2011 08:22:15 GMT

That's really strange. I found that if the property name include the minus character ("-"), the search on that property does not work from Share. This could be due to some encoding mechanism of the query.

Using Alfresco Explorer the search works in any case.