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Office Add-in search results inconsistent

amejin
Champ in-the-making
Champ in-the-making
Hello all,

I'm currently testing out several document collaboration systems for use in managing my document library. Among these is Alfresco LABS 3.
I am impressed with the feature set, but it seems there are still some rough patches. Among these is the search tool in the office add-in. Let me briefly explain what my aim is and what my results end up as. I have a set of Excel documents containing data composed of lists of items: a file for food names, one for recipes, and another containing text script used in a program (this contains text sentences which contain variables to call food names from the first file), etc. I want to be able to search these for consistency to make sure that the food name "Carrot Cake" is consistent across all files. When I search the folder using the tool provided in the Office Add-in I get varying results. Sometimes I get 5 files containing the text, sometimes 4. The numbers don't matter so much as the fact that subsequent searches of the unchanged text gives different results. This is a major issue for me and is pretty close to a deal breaker, so please let me know if this is a known issue with a fix on the way, or if there is a workaround to get the search to work properly.
Thanks.
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mrogers
Star Contributor
Star Contributor
Sounds like it could be the same issue as http://forums.alfresco.com/en/viewtopic.php?f=7&t=16620

What I think may be happening is that there's a trade off between the amount of time you are willing to wait for results and the search result.   The latest version (3.2) has major rework to the searching so may be what you are looking for.

amejin
Champ in-the-making
Champ in-the-making
Thanks for the quick reply. I'll try 3.2 and see if I get better results.