How to enable Search in Alfresco Community 4?

[hans]

Hi @all !

I am really new in Alfresco and therefore i am having problems with the searching function.

Using:
Alfresco Community 4
Alfresco Content Store is in MS SQL Server

I have many Sites where i have wikis in it and i am trying to search after some wiki Entries i made, but it looks like that the Search function is not enabled out of the box in Alfresco  :shock:  :shock:  :shock:  :shock: .

And i do not know which one to enable  ops:  ops:  ops:  ops: :
- Lucence
- solr

And how to enable them, nothing seems to work for me  .

Is there a step by step instruction to enable search in Alfresco Community 4.
I allready wasted 4 days on that and am getting quite frustrated

PLZZZZ can somebody help me out !!
THX in advance

[mitpatoliya]

Search Functionality should work OOTB in all the version community and EE.
Why do you think it is not working?
Also by default any one one of the indexing is enabled.

[hans]

Hi,

maybe i am doing something worng on searching ??
On the home page of alfresco i type in a text (in the search edit text field on the right corner) that i know it is part of a wiki page for expample i have a wiki page called "Beiträge WIKI" but i do not get any results.

also tried stuff like cm:name Beiträge WIKI …. no results.


am i doing something wrong ?

thx

[mitpatoliya]

If you are trying from the search box you need not to have any query you can simply search for Beiträge  word

[hans]

Hi, thx for your reply

I also tried just typing the text, but no results.
For me it looks that searching is not enabled, or smething else
Does the search function really work out of the box ?

I really need to come to a solution soon, because our wiki is getting bigger and you dont have chance to find anything without search (

PLZ can somebody help me out

kr. Hans

[abarisone]

Hi,
enable lucene queries in alfresco-global.properties since SolR has some problems on Alfresco Community 4.0.d
Perform also a full reindex in order to make indexes up-to-date.

Regards,
Andrea

[hans]

Hi abarisone !

Thx for your fast reply
i looked over my alfresco-global.properties under (..\tomcat\shared\classes) but didnt find something with lucene

just found this (Do i have to but this –> # in front regarding to Solr when i want to use Lucene)

### Solr indexing ###
index.subsystem.name=solr
dir.keystore=${dir.root}/keystore
solr.port.ssl=8444

How do i enable that lucene, can u guide me a bit ?
Also do not know how to "Perform also a full reindex in order to make indexes up-to-date."

Thx in advance
kr Hans

[abarisone]

Hi,
first of all modify the section you found like this

### Solr/Lucene indexing ###
index.subsystem.name=lucene
#dir.keystore=${dir.root}/keystore
#solr.port.ssl=8443‍‍‍‍

In order to perform a full reindex you have to

• stop Alfresco


• modify alfresco-global.properties adding the property index.recovery.mode=FULL


• restart Alfresco in order to let the index being rebuilt


• stop Alfresco again


• modify alfresco-global.properties modifying the property index.recovery.mode=AUTO


• start Alfresco

In this way the content you previously entered should become searchable.

Hope this helps.
Regards,
Andrea

[hans]

Hi Andrea,

i just found the same step by step u send me and it worked for me ))
Thx. for ur help and the tipp with "Solr has Problems with the Community Version"

What i did is exactly the same u mentioned before.
I commented (with #) the Solr code in the Properties File.

Steps i did:

- Stop Alfresco Tomcat Service

- change alfresco-global.properties File like followed:

### Solr/Lucene indexing ###
#dir.keystore=${dir.root}/keystore
#solr.port.ssl=8443
index.subsystem.name=lucene
index.recovery.mode=FULL

- started Alfresco Tomcat Service. After starting Searching worked and then i removed the Solr Files and Folders like mentioned in this Link in Section 3 Point 7
http://wiki.alfresco.com/wiki/Alfresco_Solr_Demo_Script

- Then i put a # before index.recovery.mode=FULL

Thx a lot for your help

Kr Hans