topic Re: Which search to use? in Alfresco Archive

Which search to use?

ddelapasse — Wed, 29 Apr 2015 16:44:12 GMT

I am a little overwhelmed by the various search options (4.2.f). I need an api to search my repo's custom types for custom metadata values and also by content.I am ok with configuing Solr, but if I need to do that can it work with my local Alfresco (http not https)? And while I find several config

Re: Which search to use?

kaynezhang — Thu, 30 Apr 2015 11:03:34 GMT

About relationship between solr and alfresco please refer to http://docs.alfresco.com/community/concepts/solr-overview.html
About how to install and configure Solr please refer to http://docs.alfresco.com/4.0/tasks/solr-install-config.html

You don't need to search solr directly ,you can use opencmis api and cmis query language to search alfresco,alfresco will deal with solr thing.

Re: Which search to use?

ddelapasse — Fri, 01 May 2015 12:52:40 GMT

@kaynezhang, I realized that even when I am searching using the nodeBrowser panel my searches are logged into solr.log. I'm using 4.2.f. I haven't done ANYTHING to configure solr. Is it the default search for this version?

My Nodebrowser dropdown is set to "fts-Alfresco". How can I tell if that is using Lucene or Solr?

One further question: Is there any way to search ALL the metadata fields at once? I know I can do "contains" for content searches, but that doesn't seem to search the metadata. Would ANY of the search mechanisms allow that?

Re: Which search to use?

ddelapasse — Fri, 01 May 2015 12:54:43 GMT

I found this "Solr 4 is the default search mechanism for new installations installed with the Setup Wizard. " so I guess that is what 4.2.f is using by default. I am running on Windows and used the setup wizard. On Linux I guess you have to install it separately?