topic Re: Advanced search for associations in Alfresco Archive

Advanced search for associations

dsmith — Thu, 26 Mar 2015 14:35:35 GMT

Alfresco version: Community 5.0.cI have a custom content type that includes an association. I would like to be able to include that association in Advanced Search in Share. So users could select document A, and search would return all documents that include document A in their associated content.I

Re: Advanced search for associations

afaust — Thu, 26 Mar 2015 17:41:43 GMT

Hello,

yes, associations are still not searchable in current release. They are just not being indexed…

Regards
Axel

Re: Advanced search for associations

theonax — Thu, 26 May 2016 09:44:31 GMT

Hi,
I was wondering if there is a solution to this problem by enabling indexing for associations.
I think this is a pretty often use case to be able to search documents based on association (e.g. assigned person, upstream document, …)

I found this plugin https://addons.alfresco.com/addons/citeck-ecos-journals and it is using Lucene queries for search (filtering)
I know for sure that search for associations worked in Alfresco 4.2 but is not working in 5.1.
Is there any reason why this was changed?
Example of query working in 4.2 and not working in 5.1 (without the association part it works just fine)


TYPE:"cez:contract" AND @cez\:contractType:"Main contract" AND cez\:contactPerson_added:"workspace://SpacesStore/86c04ee6-2758-41fe-b971-b6aa271378fa"
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Is there a simple solution (I am fairly new to Alfresco) to ensure that associations are indexed and thus searchable?
It is configurable?

Thanks for answer

Re: Advanced search for associations

afaust — Mon, 30 May 2016 07:33:58 GMT

Searching for peer associations was not supported in Alfresco 4.2. What did work was searching for properties which could provide association-like relations and specific types of child associations.

There is no simple solution to ensure associations are indexed. You'd need to significantly enhance the indexing and searching components of Alfresco (core changes) to address this.

Regards
Axel

Re: Advanced search for associations

theonax — Mon, 04 Jul 2016 10:48:52 GMT

Hello,
so why the searching for properties providing association-like relations does not work anymore?
Was this Alfresco functionality removed on purpose? Is there any plan to enable searching for associations in future releases?
I think this is a fairly basic use case being able to search based on associations.
Also Advanced search provides possibility to define search forms with associations but it does not work. (looks like the association is ignored in search query as I get all the results)

Thanks for answer

Re: Advanced search for associations

afaust — Wed, 06 Jul 2016 17:04:00 GMT

Support for reference properties that provide association-like behaviour is still present. Nothing has been removed in that regard.

Re: Advanced search for associations

mtsiak — Thu, 31 Jan 2019 08:40:49 GMT

what about 5.2? Are associations searchable?

Re: Advanced search for associations

sercama — Thu, 31 Jan 2019 10:02:53 GMT

Alfresco 5.2 doesn't let search by associations yet.