Lucene search for properties through Freemarker templates

[alexp]

Hi there,

Hopefully a quick question about using Lucene to search for content within a template.

I am trying to find documents by searching only their assigned properties. For example, our content model provides a property called "Client". I need to find all content items which have a Client of "SampleClient".

Trying something like

companyhome.childrenByLuceneSearch["Client:SampleClient"]‍

does not return any results.

FYI, the whole template is the following and counts the number of documents returned. It works fine for simple text search:

<#assign x>
  <#list companyhome.childrenByLuceneSearch["TEXT:public"] as n>
    alex
  </#list>
</#assign>
Number of docs: ${x?word_list?size}‍‍‍‍‍‍

Many thanks for the help,
Alex

[kevinr]

The search you have attempted is malformed - take a look at the section on searching for specific properties here:
http://wiki.alfresco.com/wiki/Search#Finding_nodes_by_text_property_values
You need to know the namespace prefix of your property from your custom model, assuming the namespace prefix was "custom" then the search string would look like this:

@custom\:Client:SampleClient
‍‍‍

Note that you need to escape the '\' character as it's also an escape character in FreeMarker So your final search string would look something like this:

@custom\\:Client:SampleClient
‍‍‍

Hope this helps,

Kevin

[alexp]

Many thanks Kevin, this worked perfectly.