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Restrict search to a specific site using REST API

vezance — Mon, 11 Sep 2017 15:30:22 GMT

We are using Alfresco CE 5.2. Using the REST API for Search, we want to restrict the search to a particular site only. Going through the Search API details on the API explorer page, we did not find any details on how to restrict search to one site. We also tried the following solution provided by so

Re: Restrict search to a specific site using REST API

mehe — Tue, 12 Sep 2017 08:48:23 GMT

Add SITE:<sitename> to your query:

"query": "SITE:<sitename> ..."

or the folder to search within as "ANCESTOR":

"query": "ANCESTOR:\"workspace://SpacesStore/...\""

Regards,

Martin

Re: Restrict search to a specific site using REST API

vezance — Tue, 12 Sep 2017 10:37:17 GMT

The one with 'SITE' did not work for us.

When you say <sitename>, do I just mention the site name e.g. 'My First Site', or something else?

The 'ANCESTOR' one worked, though. Thanks.

Re: Restrict search to a specific site using REST API

mehe — Tue, 12 Sep 2017 10:39:34 GMT

the site name should be the "short name" or "id" of the site. The one that's also used in the url to the site.

Re: Restrict search to a specific site using REST API

vezance — Tue, 12 Sep 2017 10:43:17 GMT

We tried that too e.g. 'my-first-site'. That didn't work either.

Re: Restrict search to a specific site using REST API

mehe — Tue, 12 Sep 2017 10:45:38 GMT

I had testsite and it worked, maybe you have to put it in quotes when the string contains "-" :

"query":"SITE:\"my-first-site\""

Re: Restrict search to a specific site using REST API

vezance — Wed, 13 Sep 2017 03:53:52 GMT

That worked perfectly. Thanks Martin.