topic double quotes in opensearch / firefox search in Alfresco Archive

double quotes in opensearch / firefox search

michaelgk — Thu, 12 Apr 2007 02:08:55 GMT

I have installed the "alfresco keyword search" as one of the firefox search engines. I notice in this and in the opensearch sidebar that using "double quotes" to group search terms results in no results.i.e. I have documents containing … Issac NewtonI can search for Issac Newton and get

Re: double quotes in opensearch / firefox search

dnind — Thu, 12 Apr 2007 09:51:37 GMT

These two posts may help shed some light on the problem:
http://forums.alfresco.com/viewtopic.php?t=5685&highlight=opensearch
http://forums.alfresco.com/viewtopic.php?t=6004&highlight=opensearch

Re: double quotes in opensearch / firefox search

michaelgk — Thu, 12 Apr 2007 21:31:59 GMT

I saw these posts but they don't address my question… (double quotes)

Re: double quotes in opensearch / firefox search

dnind — Fri, 13 Apr 2007 21:17:05 GMT

My understanding (from experimentation and the mentioned post) is that Alfresco OpenSearch does not yet support/expose phrase searching (between double quotes) or boolean searching (AND, +, -). It does support wildcard searching (word*).

Alfresco will implement/expose more functionality in future versions so it is the same as the standard searching available in the web client.

So at the moment with Alfresco's OpenSearch you get:
- key word searches: wordone wordtwo
- wildcard searching: word*

You can change the default configuration for your repository so that it defaults to AND searching i.e. find documents with both wordone and wordtwo, as opposed to the default which finds wordone or wordtwo.

From:
http://forums.alfresco.com/viewtopic.php?t=5685

The OpenSearch keyword search defaults to OR. There's no support for AND or + operators in the search syntax.

Search behaviour is consistent across local and remote repositories - they're all using the same search back-end. So, I'm not sure why you're getting inconsistent results.

A freemarker template is used to build the keyword search query - it's in config/alfresco/templates/api/KeywordSearch_query_.ftl. It could be changed to use AND instead of OR.

In 2.1, I hope we can support the same syntax as the Web Client search.