topic Advanced search on associations in Alfresco Archive https://connect.hyland.com/t5/alfresco-archive/advanced-search-on-associations/m-p/271543#M224673 <HTML><HEAD></HEAD><BODY><SPAN>Is it possible to perform search on the associations that are part of the document's metadata?</SPAN><BR /><SPAN>I am using an association for cm<img id="smileytongue" class="emoticon emoticon-smileytongue" src="https://connect.hyland.com/i/smilies/16x16_smiley-tongue.png" alt="Smiley Tongue" title="Smiley Tongue" />erson(identical to bpm:assignee) to select the moderator of the document,</SPAN><BR /><SPAN>it is an important part of metadata for my custom content type.</SPAN><BR /><SPAN>I need this search to be possible in the advanced search section, so that every user in the system has the possibility</SPAN><BR /><SPAN>to search on associations that are part of the document.</SPAN><BR /><SPAN>From what I have read, you couldn't perform search on associations in previous versions of Alfresco, is this still an issue?</SPAN><BR /><SPAN>Are there any other good alternatives then, for example, using an extra text property, that would store the values of an associations?</SPAN></BODY></HTML> Tue, 20 Dec 2011 14:11:31 GMT leftright 2011-12-20T14:11:31Z Advanced search on associations https://connect.hyland.com/t5/alfresco-archive/advanced-search-on-associations/m-p/271543#M224673 Is it possible to perform search on the associations that are part of the document's metadata?I am using an association for cm<IMG id="smileytongue" class="emoticon emoticon-smileytongue" src="https://migration33.stage.lithium.com/i/smilies/16x16_smiley-tongue.png" alt="Smiley Tongue" title="Smiley Tongue" />erson(identical to bpm:assignee) to select the moderator of the document,it is an important part of metadata for my custom content type.I need this search to be possible in Tue, 20 Dec 2011 14:11:31 GMT https://connect.hyland.com/t5/alfresco-archive/advanced-search-on-associations/m-p/271543#M224673 leftright 2011-12-20T14:11:31Z Re: Advanced search on associations https://connect.hyland.com/t5/alfresco-archive/advanced-search-on-associations/m-p/271544#M224674 <HTML><HEAD></HEAD><BODY><SPAN>Hi</SPAN><BR /><BR /><SPAN>It is not possible to search on associations.</SPAN><BR /><BR /><SPAN>Yes the best thing would be to include the data in a property.</SPAN><BR /><BR /><SPAN>Andy</SPAN></BODY></HTML> Mon, 23 Jan 2012 15:23:29 GMT https://connect.hyland.com/t5/alfresco-archive/advanced-search-on-associations/m-p/271544#M224674 andy 2012-01-23T15:23:29Z