Customized Advanced Search by aspects not returning results

[yuhuayang]

Hi

I created a custom model and several aspects (not properties). I then attached this aspect to a document and input some data for each aspect.

I followed the guides here: http://forums.alfresco.com/forum/developer-discussions/alfresco-share-development/share-aspects-and-... and http://customizealfresco.blogspot.com/2012/09/customize-alfresco-share-advance-search.html and I have successfully added a custom Advanced Search form to search by aspects. However, the problem is that the search returns nothing! Why is this? I can find the documents using the solr/lucene search syntax but it is really user-unfriendly and I would like my users to use the search forms rather than esoteric aspect:name:query formats.

Here is the snippet added to share-config-custom.xml file:

<config evaluator="string-compare" condition="AdvancedSearch">
      <advanced-search>
         <!– Forms for the advanced search type list –>
         <forms>
            <form label="HR Documents" description="Hr Documents">hr:docs</form>
         </forms>
      </advanced-search>
   </config>

   <config evaluator="model-type" condition="hr:docs">
      <forms>
         <!– Search form –>
         <form id="search">
            <field-visibility>
               <show id="hr:name" force="true"/>
               <show id="hr:id" force="true"/>
               <show id="hr:formType" force="true"/>
               <show id="hr:dateOfDoc" force="true"/>
            </field-visibility>
         </form>
      </forms>
   </config>
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and here is the code for the model.xml file:

<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?>
<model name="hr:hrModel" xmlns="http://www.alfresco.org/model/dictionary/1.0">
    <description>HR Metadata</description>
    <author>yangy</author>
    <version>1.0</version>
    <imports>
        <import uri="http://www.alfresco.org/model/dictionary/1.0" prefix="d"/>
        <import uri="http://www.alfresco.org/model/content/1.0" prefix="cm"/>
    </imports>
    <namespaces>
        <namespace uri="http://www.mydomain.com/model/hrModel/1.0" prefix="hr"/>
    </namespaces>

    <types>
        <type name="hr:docs">
                <title>HR Documents</title>
                <parent>cm:content</parent>
        </type>
    </types>

    <aspects>
        <aspect name="hr:metadata">
            <title>HR Metadata</title>
            <properties>
                <property name="hr:name">
                    <title>Name</title>
                    <type>d:text</type>
                </property>
                <property name="hr:id">
                    <title>ID</title>
                    <type>d:text</type>
                </property>
                <property name="hr:formType">
                    <title>Form Type</title>
                    <type>d:text</type>
                </property>
                <property name="hr:dateOfDoc">
                    <title>Date of Document</title>
                    <type>d:date</type>
                </property>
             </properties>
        </aspect>
    </aspects>
</model>

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any help is appreciated

[yuhuayang]

any help from anyone?

[rjohnson]

I'm not clear on what you are searching on or expecting back. From what I can see above (and I have only scanned your code) you should get a form in advanced search that would let you search on any of the metadata properties in your aspect for documents of type hr:docs. However you have not indexed any of this metadata so I am far from sure you would be able to find it in an advanced search. I may be wrong on this as I have never tried "Advanced searching" on a non indexed metadata fields so anyone elses comments would be an education to me as well.

If you are assuming you can search for documents with the aspect of hr:metadata (regardless of the metadata items contents) then I do not beleive that this is possible via advanced search, you need the "hasAspect" type query which I do not believe it will do through advanced search forms by clicking search on a balnk form for example. I think it will search on a given set of metadata and whilst this inherently means it must "have the aspect" it is the metadata that is the search not the aspect.

[mitpatoliya]

I think you need to refer this post.
You need some trick to make it happen.

http://forums.alfresco.com/forum/developer-discussions/alfresco-share-development/share-aspects-and-...