topic Re: custom advanced search form works on one machine and not another in Alfresco Archive

custom advanced search form works on one machine and not another

abruzzi — Mon, 16 Jun 2014 16:29:57 GMT

I'm in the process of building a some custom project tracking into alfresco, and learning development at the same time. I have an aspect that contains certain pieces of meta data about a project, and I would like to be able to search in those fields, but I would rather not clutter the usual cm:cont

Re: custom advanced search form works on one machine and not another

mitpatoliya — Mon, 16 Jun 2014 18:58:19 GMT

Issue is that you cannot configure aspect as form in alfresco share search. It has to be custom content type.If you search within forum you will find this issue faced by lot of peoples.

Re: custom advanced search form works on one machine and not another

abruzzi — Mon, 16 Jun 2014 19:52:20 GMT

I did ask the question about having multiple forms for the same content type (cm:content) previously here and was told that by using separate IDs for the forms it would work. And that worked to create the separate form. (see attached images above) I haven't been able to test the search because of the lack of SOLR, but that still leaves the question of why the form works in one server instance and not in the other. Both are running 4.2.1.

I guess I'll open a support ticket and see what they say.

Re: custom advanced search form works on one machine and not another

abruzzi — Wed, 25 Jun 2014 22:42:44 GMT

I got a response from support and it is surprising and easy. My advanced search config was conflicting with the RM module which was installed on my test server, but not the development code downloaded by maven. That was causing the error, and to fix it I have to change the visibility to force=true like so:



    <config evaluator="model-type" condition="cm:content">
        <forms>
            <!– Search form –>
            <form id="dac_itprojects">
                <field-visibility>
                    <show id="dac:itproject-title" force="true" />
                    <show id="dac:itproject-department" force="true" />
                </field-visibility>
                <appearance>
                    <field id="dac:itproject-title" label-id="proj.itproject-title" >
                        <control template="/org/alfresco/components/form/controls/textfield.ftl"/>
                    </field>
                    <field id="dac:itproject-department" label-id="proj.itproject-department">
                        <control template="/org/alfresco/components/form/controls/selectmany.ftl">
                            <control-param name="options">Assessor,BOCC,Clerk,Community Development,County Manager,CRRUA,DASO,Detention Center,Facilities,Fire Marshal,Finance,Fleet,Flood,Health and Human Services,Human Resources,Information Technology,Legal,Office of Emergency Management,Roads,Treasurer,Utilities,External</control-param>
                            <control-param name="size">5</control-param>
                            <control-param name="mode">OR</control-param>
                        </control>
                    </field>
                </appearance>
            </form>
        </forms>
    </config>
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This allowed the custom advanced search form to display properly, and search worked (though I'm having some unrelated other problems with this setup, specifically where my "options" in the above form have a space in the name like "Community Development" the last part at least "Development" is matching full text, not just the property).

Geof