topic Customizing the search result page in Alfresco Archive

Customizing the search result page

fararjeh — Tue, 27 Sep 2016 14:26:05 GMT

How I can include the custom property in each faceted search result ?

Re: Customizing the search result page

afaust — Tue, 27 Sep 2016 14:51:01 GMT

You have the option of adding a custom view to faceted search to show your custom property. Depending on your Alfresco version the approach of configuratively adding the property to the default view might also (still) work.

Re: Customizing the search result page

ddraper — Tue, 27 Sep 2016 15:20:57 GMT

Unfortunately the limitation with the faceted search is with the data that is returned by the search API. The search APIs that are used only return a subset of data (the data that was originally required for the pre-faceted search page). So only some of the properties are returned. In fact pretty much all the data returned by the search API for each result is already displayed.

It would be very easy to construct new views or augment existing views with additional data if your updated the search APIs - however, this will require you to override the search APIs defined on the repository that are called.

So in summary, your customization options are limited by the REST API and not by the UI.

Re: Customizing the search result page

davidcognite — Wed, 28 Sep 2016 09:15:35 GMT

In RM, we extend the search API to return additional metadata to the faceted search page in order to allow us to do exactly what you described. I explained the approach in my session at BeeCon earlier this year and at a Alfresco Day last year. My slides are linked from this page https://community.alfresco.com/people/davidcognite/blog/2016/09/23/alfresco-presentations-ive-given?sr=search&searchId=ad263600-d9d7-4a96-be9b-73c7be16ec5e&searchIndex=0‌. I'll see if I can dig out my notes and transfer them to a blog post on the topic later, if that'd be useful?

Re: Customizing the search result page

hiten_rastogi1 — Thu, 14 Sep 2017 05:47:56 GMT

Hi David,

I would appreciate if you can point me to the code where you have extended the OOTB search api to return back custom fields. I am trying to do similar stuff for one of our client.