Federated Search Configuration

[fschnell]

Hello all,

I was trying to configure Alfresco 2.0 in  a way to make use of the federated search capabilities. I seem to be unable to find the right places for the configuration. Let's assume that I have two different Alf2.0 instances running, each with their own indexed repository. How would I configure each instance to be able to search also in the other instance? Are there any fundamental differences if the second is not an Alfresco repository but another OpenSearch capable repository?

I also have a repository which is not OpenSearch enabled, but provides a SOAP interface for all its functionality. What would be a planning figure for the effort (in man-days) to implement an OpenSearch connector which translates a search request into a SOAP request? Anyone out there who did that before?

Any help or pointers to more information are highly appreciated.

Thanks
Frank

[dnind]

I presume you looked in the Wiki. See:
http://wiki.alfresco.com/wiki/OpenSearch

There is also an example in the extension folder - web-api-config-custom.xml.sample.

In addition there is also David Caruana's blog entry on OpenSearch at:
http://blogs.alfresco.com/davidc/
and John Newton's blog entry at:
http://newton.typepad.com/content/2007/02/opensearch_in_a.html

A related forum post is:
http://forums.alfresco.com/viewtopic.php?t=5685&highlight=opensearch

Hopefully someone else can help you with your SOAP query, I'm only familiar with the cleaning variety. 

[fschnell]

Thanks, not sure why I was unable to find the Wiki page. Exactly what I was looking for.

[tyve]

I have added a search engine in web-api-config-custom.xml and it's listed as a registred search engine: http://<host>:<port>/alfresco/service/search/engines but it's not avaliable in the dashboard och sidebar. The response format is html, does it need to be atom or rss?

[davidc]

Yes, it must be either atom or rss.

[tyve]

Thank you, updated the wiki.

[prb]

I downloaded the platform independent version of the alfreso 2.1 RC1 and the 'extension ' folder is missing from the build.  Adding these missing xml files with a new engine does nothing.  Is there something else I need to do to activate this functionality?  Is this configuration now living somewhere else?