topic Re: simple search to include categories in Alfresco Archive

simple search to include categories

gcoleman — Thu, 30 Aug 2007 12:04:04 GMT

I was wondering how hard it would be to make the simple search search categories. For example if you have a category called fish and you search for fish in the simple search it will return all of the documents in the category fish or any of its sub-categories (parrot-fish, butterfly-fish, trout, cod

Re: simple search to include categories

kevinr — Wed, 05 Sep 2007 12:55:21 GMT

It will require a code change to the class:
org.alfresco.web.bean.SearchContext
It is not too hard to do as code to search in a specific category is already present (as you can pick categories to search using Advanced Search). You may have to write some code to select the correct category based on the text the user has entered.

There should not be a problem having many categories - it is advisable to create a sensible hierarchy though i.e. not have all categories at the same level.

Thanks,

Kevin

Re: simple search to include categories

rivarola — Wed, 26 Sep 2007 16:30:29 GMT

Hello Kevin,

There should not be a problem having many categories - it is advisable to create a sensible hierarchy though i.e. not have all categories at the same level.

Can you explain a little bit this performance issue, please ?