topic Re: Search on previous versions in Alfresco Archive

Search on previous versions

anweber — Fri, 23 Feb 2007 10:13:17 GMT

Hi, Is it possible to search (by API) on metadata values from the actual and previous versions of documents? For example :I create a new document.I set the value "first title" to the "title" propertyI create a new version of the same document (of course, I have added the "versionable" aspect)In t

Re: Search on previous versions

andnyg — Wed, 16 Jan 2008 20:09:43 GMT

Why is no one answering this question? It sure is a feature that you would like to see in Alfresco.

Re: Search on previous versions

hbf — Sat, 19 Jan 2008 09:27:41 GMT

I am really not sure here, but have you tried doing the search in Alfresco's Node Browser?

If in the Node Browser you do a Lucene search in workspace://SpacesStore for

@cm\:title:"second title"‍

you should find the current version. If you do the same search in archive://SpacesStore you should not get any result. However, if in the latter store you search for

@cm\:title:"first title"‍

you should find your initial version.

If you need to do this programmatically, use the SearchService, see this wiki page.

Hope this helps.
Kaspar

P.S. I have not worked with versions so far; what I write may be incorrect.

Re: Search on previous versions

andy — Mon, 22 Sep 2008 14:43:07 GMT

Hi

The index structure for the version store reflected the model it used (whihc obfuscated the actual model)
It is not much use for search. Inrecent builds the indexing of the version store has been removed.
Labs 3B includes an updated version store (it contains the old doc with extra properties)

Andy