Add new property & existing documents

[lmoulin]

Hello,
My system is used by users for 6 months.
There are 1 500 000 documents.
I have defined several customized properties.

But now I want to add a new searchable property.
Is it possible to create a new property with a default value for the existing documents?

I want to use this property like criterion in the advanced search window.

Thanks a lot for your help
Luc

[ribz33]

Just create an aspect.
After you need to make an action(job) which will add this aspect to all documents.

Aspect will contain your property with a default value after you can make it searchable in web-client-config.xml

Dont forget to create a rule to add this aspect to all future document also.

Hope this help.

[kevinr]

You can write a JavaScript that will use Lucene to find all docs and set the aspect/property on those docs. You will need to run the script as admin The side effect of doing this is that all docs will have the Modified Date updated, but there's not much you can do about that.
http://wiki.alfresco.com/wiki/JavaScript_API

Thanks,

Kevin