topic Re: WCM Preview and content search... in Alfresco Archive

WCM Preview and content search...

rkylberg — Wed, 31 Jan 2007 21:34:14 GMT

I've installed the Alfresco 2.0 Preview and successfully worked thru the very fine WCM_BETA_Eval-Guide.pdf.After creating the web project and press releases I wondered if the site content was indexed and searchable?When I search for "Alfresco" or "Newton" I get the press release render engine ftl te

Re: WCM Preview and content search...

kvc — Thu, 01 Feb 2007 17:52:51 GMT

Yes, our new 2.0 OpenSearch capabilities have not yet been extended to Web Projects (and noted on the wiki release notes page). This is a core requirement for our maintanence release, 2.1, targeted for Preview end of March.

Let me know if more questions.

Kevin

Re: WCM Preview and content search...

rkylberg — Thu, 01 Feb 2007 19:14:40 GMT

Oh great! I had not seen the OpenSearch page (here). This will be fantastic!

Looks like your OpenSearch capability is based on this standard: http://www.opensearch.org/Home. Is that correct?

Re: WCM Preview and content search...

eyestreet — Sun, 01 Jul 2007 04:33:31 GMT

Is Open Search working in the community release for 2.1?

Re: WCM Preview and content search...

kevinr — Tue, 03 Jul 2007 16:30:30 GMT

Yes the issues with the query etc. have been fixed for 2.1.

Thanks,

Kevin

Re: WCM Preview and content search...

rhys — Wed, 10 Oct 2007 13:20:15 GMT

I'm running Web Content Management community edition 2.1. I've seen posts indicating that search is supported for Web projects via the various APIs that Alfresco provides. That's good.

However, I'm still unclear as to whether the search toolbar or the opensearch dashlet should work while editing and managing content from within Alfresco.

I've worked through most of the Evaluation Guide (great introduction to WCM by the way) and managed to get everything working. However, if I use the search bar with a search term like 'management', which is in at least one of the press release examples, I get no hits at all.

Am I right in thinking that the search bar and the dashlet can't use the index from the sample web project created by following the instructions in the guide? Or should this really work?

If it doesn't currently work, is there a plan to support this? Creating a dashlet for it could be ok, but having several different search tools, only one of which works is likely to be confusing for end users.

Thanks

Re: WCM Preview and content search...

kevinr — Wed, 10 Oct 2007 13:37:06 GMT

You are correct, at present the standard Search UI in the web-client does not search the Web Project stores. Indexing of WCM content was added during the 2.1 development phase, but only the raw APIs and JavaScript/FreeMarker APIs were added as an interface to the Lucene results for WCM stores. The UI is still to be done, but it's definitely high on our list!

Thanks to the easy JavaScript/FreeMarker APIs, a dashlet could be created very easily as a starting point for now.

Thanks,

Kevin