Advanced Search customization

[francisco_giron]

We are having lots of custom content types and aspects covering all departments of our organization.

How can we extend Alfresco advanced search to generate custom fields dynamically in Additional Options, when I
select any particular Content Type from drop down?

Is it possible to write some class by extending existing classes of Alfresco and dynamically overriding Additional Options pane?

What is the correct way to work with custom metadata in the advanced search pane?

Thanks in advance to all of you taking a look at this requirement.

Regards

[jpotts]

Have you read this tutorial? It describes how to use the share-config-custom.xml file to specify advanced search forms for your custom types and aspects.

Jeff

[juilee]

Hi Jeff, I had the same question. I have gone through this tutorial and implemented a custom type, but not for the search form.
I am retrieving the names of the documents I need to populate the dropdown, using CMIS queries in Java. I am still not sure how to get a dropdown menu in the search form and populate this menu with the search results obtained by executing the CMIS query.
Can I create an advanced search form through Java and then call the CMIS query class to populate this form?
I would really appreciate an overview of the how the control flow will work.