Search interface

[zinformatica]

Hi there
I need to change alfresco search interface, in order to enable only the following search criterias:
-By title
-By date
-By author(s)
-By description
-By a personalized field

I've been looking inside web-client-config*.xml from this Alfresco instance files, and also checked some documentation, but haven't found where should i modify that.
Would you mind to tell me which files should i modify?

Thanks!!!!
Nicolás

[jm_pascal]

Hi,

If you want to restrict advanced search interface, you have to modify alfresco jsp pages.
If you want to add some extra fields, you have to change Alfresco configuration files : http://wiki.alfresco.com/wiki/Advanced_Search_Custom_Attributes

[savic_prvoslav]

hi, you need to modify 2 places:
jsp and bean .
jsp is: jsp/search/advanced-search.jsp

and bean: org.alfresco.web.bean.search.AdvancedSearchDialog

probably some thing regarding the bean but nothing you can not manage.


hope that this was helpful.

[zinformatica]

So, where can i find "org.alfresco.web.bean.search.AdvancedSearchDialog"?
Thanks!

[zinformatica]

Ok, i've managed to add the fields i needed for the advanced search dialog.
However, when i seek the repository for content that matches a criteria using the newly added fields, the search returns no results. How can i verify whether the search engine is worked as it should or not?
thanks

[savic_prvoslav]

can you paste the code of jsp and bean , so I can see if you have not made mistake.

[zinformatica]

ok, here it goes:

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jsp file at /var/lib/tomcat6/webapps/alfresco/jsp/search/advanced-search.jsp :

 
<%–
* Copyright (C) 2005-2007 Alfresco Software Limited.

* This program is free software; you can redistribute it and/or
* modify it under the terms of the GNU General Public License
* as published by the Free Software Foundation; either version 2
* of the License, or (at your option) any later version.

* This program is distributed in the hope that it will be useful,
* but WITHOUT ANY WARRANTY; without even the implied warranty of
* MERCHANTABILITY or FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE.  See the
* GNU General Public License for more details.

* You should have received a copy of the GNU General Public License
* along with this program; if not, write to the Free Software
* Foundation, Inc., 51 Franklin Street, Fifth Floor, Boston, MA 02110-1301, USA.

* As a special exception to the terms and conditions of version 2.0 of
* the GPL, you may redistribute this Program in connection with Free/Libre
* and Open Source Software ("FLOSS") applications as described in Alfresco's
* FLOSS exception.  You should have recieved a copy of the text describing
* the FLOSS exception, and it is also available here:
* http://www.alfresco.com/legal/licensing"
–%>
<%@ taglib uri="http://java.sun.com/jsf/html" prefix="h" %>
<%@ taglib uri="http://java.sun.com/jsf/core" prefix="f" %>
<%@ taglib uri="http://java.sun.com/jsp/jstl/core" prefix="c" %>
<%@ taglib uri="/WEB-INF/alfresco.tld" prefix="a" %>
<%@ taglib uri="/WEB-INF/repo.tld" prefix="r" %>

<%@ page buffer="32kb" contentType="text/html;charset=UTF-8" %>
<%@ page isELIgnored="false" %>
<%@ page import="org.alfresco.web.ui.common.PanelGenerator" %>

<r:page titleId="title_advanced_search">

<script type="text/javascript">

window.onload = pageLoaded;

function pageLoaded()
{
document.getElementById("advsearch:search-text").focus();
}

</script>

<f:view>

<%– load a bundle of properties with I18N strings –%>
<r:loadBundle var="msg"/>

<%– set the form name here –%>
<h:form acceptcharset="UTF-8" id="advsearch">

<%– Main outer table –%>
<table cellspacing="0" cellpadding="2">

<%– Title bar –%>
<tr>
<td colspan="2">
<%@ include file="../parts/titlebar.jsp" %>
</td>
</tr>

<%– Main area –%>
<tr valign="top">
<%– Shelf –%>
<td>
<%@ include file="../parts/shelf.jsp" %>
</td>

<%– Work Area –%>
<td width="100%">
<table cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0" width="100%">
<%– Breadcrumb –%>
<%@ include file="../parts/breadcrumb.jsp" %>

<%– Status and Actions –%>
<tr>
<td style="background-image: url(<%=request.getContextPath()%>/images/parts/statuspanel_4.gif)" width="4"></td>
<td bgcolor="#dfe6ed">

<%– Status and Actions inner contents table –%>
<%– Generally this consists of an icon, textual summary and actions for the current object –%>
<table cellspacing="4" cellpadding="0" width="100%">
<tr>
<td width=32>
<img src="<%=request.getContextPath()%>/images/icons/search_large.gif" width=32 height=32>
</td>
<td>
<div class="mainTitle"><h:outputText value="#{msg.advanced_search}" /></div>
<div class="mainSubText"><h:outputText value="#{msg.advancedsearch_description}" /></div>
</td>

<td align=right>
<a:actionLink value="#{msg.resetall}" image="/images/icons/delete.gif" padding="2" actionListener="#{AdvancedSearchDialog.reset}" style="white-space:nowrap" />
</td>
<td class="separator" width=1><img src="<%=request.getContextPath()%>/images/parts/dotted_separator.gif" border=0 height=29 width=1></td>
<td width=128 style="padding-left:4px">
<%– Available Saved Searches –%>
<div style="padding-top:4px" style="white-space:nowrap">
<a:modeList itemSpacing="3" iconColumnWidth="20" style="text-align:right" selectedStyleClass="statusListHighlight" disabledStyleClass="statusListDisabled" selectedImage="/images/icons/filter.gif"
value="#{SearchProperties.savedSearchMode}" actionListener="#{AdvancedSearchDialog.savedSearchModeChanged}" menu="true" menuImage="/images/icons/menu.gif" styleClass="moreActionsMenu" label="#{msg.saved_searches}">
<a:listItem value="user" label="#{msg.user_searches}" />
<a:listItem value="global" label="#{msg.global_searches}" />
</a:modeList>
</div>
</td>
<td width=128 style="padding-left:4px">
<div>
<%– Saved Searches drop-down selector –%>
<%– uses a nasty hack to execute an ActionListener for the drop-down.
tried using a valueChangedListener+formsubmit but the valueChangedListener
is called too late in the lifecycle for the form controls to be modified –%>
<h:selectOneMenu id="searches" value="#{SearchProperties.savedSearch}" onchange="document.forms['advsearch']['advsearch:act'].value='advsearch:show-search'; document.forms['advsearch'].submit(); return true;">
<f:selectItems value="#{AdvancedSearchDialog.savedSearches}" />
</h:selectOneMenu>
<div style="display:none"><a:actionLink id="show-search" value="Select" actionListener="#{AdvancedSearchDialog.selectSearch}" /></div>
</div>
</td>
</tr>
</table>

</td>
<td style="background-image: url(<%=request.getContextPath()%>/images/parts/statuspanel_6.gif)" width="4"></td>
</tr>

<%– separator row with gradient shadow –%>
<tr>
<td><img src="<%=request.getContextPath()%>/images/parts/statuspanel_7.gif" width="4" height="9"></td>
<td style="background-image: url(<%=request.getContextPath()%>/images/parts/statuspanel_8.gif)"></td>
<td><img src="<%=request.getContextPath()%>/images/parts/statuspanel_9.gif" width="4" height="9"></td>
</tr>

<%– Details –%>
<tr valign=top>
<td style="background-image: url(<%=request.getContextPath()%>/images/parts/whitepanel_4.gif)" width="4"></td>
<td>
<table cellspacing="0" cellpadding="3" border="0" width="100%">
<tr>
<td width="100%" valign="top">

<% PanelGenerator.generatePanelStart(out, request.getContextPath(), "white", "white"); %>
<table cellpadding="2" cellspacing="2" border="0" valign="top">

<tr>
<td colspan=2>
<h:outputText value="#{msg.look_for}" style="font-weight:bold" />: 
<h:inputText id="search-text" value="#{SearchProperties.text}" size="48" maxlength="1024" />
</td>
</tr>

<tr>
<td valign="top">
<a:panel label="#{msg.show_results_for}" id="restrict-panel" style="font-weight:bold" border="white" bgcolor="white" progressive="true"
expanded='#{SearchProperties.panels["restrict-panel"]}' expandedActionListener="#{AdvancedSearchDialog.expandPanel}">
<table cellpadding="2" cellspacing="2" border="0">
<tr>
<td>
<h:selectOneRadio value="#{SearchProperties.mode}" layout="pageDirection" id="radioMode" >
<f:selectItem itemValue="all" itemLabel="#{msg.all_items}" id="selectAll" />
<f:selectItem itemValue="files_text" itemLabel="#{msg.file_names_contents}" id="selectFilesText" />
<f:selectItem itemValue="files" itemLabel="#{msg.file_names}" id="selectFiles" />
<f:selectItem itemValue="folders" itemLabel="#{msg.space_names}" id="selectFolders" />
</h:selectOneRadio>
</td>
</tr>
</table>
</a:panel>

<div style="padding:3px"></div>

<a:panel label="#{msg.look_in}" id="location-panel" style="font-weight:bold" border="white" bgcolor="white" progressive="true"
expanded='#{SearchProperties.panels["location-panel"]}' expandedActionListener="#{AdvancedSearchDialog.expandPanel}">
<table cellpadding="2" cellspacing="2" border="0">
<tr>
<td>
<h:selectOneRadio value="#{SearchProperties.lookin}" layout="pageDirection" id="radioLookin">
<f:selectItem itemValue="all" itemLabel="#{msg.all_spaces}" id="spacesAll" />
<f:selectItem itemValue="other" itemLabel="#{msg.specify_space}:" id="spacesOther" />
</h:selectOneRadio>
</td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td style="padding-left:26px">
<r:ajaxFolderSelector id="spaceSelector" styleClass="selector" label="#{msg.select_space_prompt}" value="#{SearchProperties.location}" singleSelect="true" initialSelection="#{NavigationBean.currentNode.nodeRefAsString}" height="105px" />
</td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td style="padding-left:22px">
<h:selectBooleanCheckbox value="#{SearchProperties.locationChildren}" id="chkLocation" />
<span style="vertical-align:20%"><h:outputText value="#{msg.include_child_spaces}" id="incchild" /></span>
</td>
</tr>
</table>
</a:panel>

<div style="padding:3px"></div>

<a:panel label="#{msg.show_results_categories}" id="categories-panel" style="font-weight:bold" border="white" bgcolor="white" progressive="true"
expanded='#{SearchProperties.panels["categories-panel"]}' expandedActionListener="#{AdvancedSearchDialog.expandPanel}">
<table cellpadding="2" cellspacing="2" border="0">
<tr>
<td style="padding-left:8px;padding-top:8px">
<r:ajaxCategorySelector id="catSelector" styleClass="selector" label="#{msg.select_category_prompt}" singleSelect="false" height="105px" />
</td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td style="padding-left:4px">
<h:selectBooleanCheckbox id="chkCatChildren" />
<span style="vertical-align:20%"><h:outputText value="#{msg.include_sub_categories}" id="incCats" /></span>
</td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td style="padding-left:4px">
<h:commandButton id="btnAddCat" value="#{msg.add_to_list_button}" actionListener="#{AdvancedSearchDialog.addCategory}" styleClass="wizardButton" />
</td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td style="padding-left:4px">
<h:dataTable value="#{AdvancedSearchDialog.categoriesDataModel}" var="row" id="catTable"
rowClasses="selectedItemsRow,selectedItemsRowAlt"
styleClass="selectedItems" headerClass="selectedItemsHeader"
cellspacing="0" cellpadding="4"
rendered="#{AdvancedSearchDialog.categoriesDataModel.rowCount != 0}">
<h:column id="col1">
<f:facet name="header">
<h:outputText value="#{msg.category}" id="tblCatNameHead" />
</f:facet>
<h:outputText value="#{row.name}" id="tblCatName" />
</h:column>
<h:column id="col2">
<f:facet name="header">
<h:outputText value="#{msg.include_sub_categories}" id="tblCatIncHead" />
</f:facet>
<h:outputText value="#{row.includeChildren}" id="tblCatInc" >
<a:convertBoolean/>
</h:outputText>
</h:column>
<h:column id="col3">
<a:actionLink actionListener="#{AdvancedSearchDialog.removeCategory}" image="/images/icons/delete.gif"
value="#{msg.remove}" showLink="false" style="padding-left:6px" id="tblCatAdd" />
</h:column>
</h:dataTable>

<a:panel id="no-items" rendered="#{AdvancedSearchDialog.categoriesDataModel.rowCount == 0}">
<table cellspacing='0' cellpadding='2' border='0' class='selectedItems'>
<tr>
<td colspan='2' class='selectedItemsHeader'><h:outputText id="no-items-category" value="#{msg.category}" /></td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td class='selectedItemsRow'><h:outputText id="no-items-msg" value="#{msg.no_selected_items}" /></td>
</tr>
</table>
</a:panel>
</td>
</tr>
</table>
</a:panel>

</td>

<td valign="top">

<a:panel label="#{msg.also_search_results}" id="attrs-panel" style="font-weight:bold" border="white" bgcolor="white" progressive="true"
expanded='#{SearchProperties.panels["attrs-panel"]}' expandedActionListener="#{AdvancedSearchDialog.expandPanel}">
<table cellpadding="2" cellspacing="2" border="0">
<tr>
<td>
<table cellpadding="2" cellspacing="2" border="0">
<tr>
<td style="padding-left:8px"><h:outputText value="#{msg.folder_type}" id="folderType" />:</td>
<td>
<h:selectOneMenu value="#{SearchProperties.folderType}" id="selectFolderType">
<f:selectItems value="#{AdvancedSearchDialog.folderTypes}" id="folderTypes" />
</h:selectOneMenu>
</td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td style="padding-left:8px"><h:outputText value="#{msg.content_type}" id="contentType" />:</td>
<td>
<h:selectOneMenu value="#{SearchProperties.contentType}" id="selectContentType">
<f:selectItems value="#{AdvancedSearchDialog.contentTypes}" id="contentTypes" />
</h:selectOneMenu>
</td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td style="padding-left:8px"><h:outputText value="#{msg.content_format}" id="contentFormat" />:</td>
<td>
<h:selectOneMenu value="#{SearchProperties.contentFormat}" id="selectContentFormat">
<f:selectItems value="#{AdvancedSearchDialog.contentFormats}" id="contentFormats" />
</h:selectOneMenu>
</td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td style="padding-left:8px"><h:outputText value="#{msg.title}" id="title" />:</td><td><h:inputText value="#{SearchProperties.title}" size="#{TextFieldGenerator.size}" maxlength="1024" id="txtTitle" /></td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td style="padding-left:8px"><h:outputText value="#{msg.description}" id="desc" />:</td><td><h:inputText value="#{SearchProperties.description}" size="#{TextFieldGenerator.size}" maxlength="1024" id="txtDesc" /></td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td style="padding-left:8px"><h:outputText value="#{msg.author}" id="author" />:</td><td><h:inputText value="#{SearchProperties.author}" size="#{TextFieldGenerator.size}" maxlength="1024" id="txtAuthor" /></td>
</tr>
</table>
<table cellpadding="1" cellspacing="0" border="0">
<tr><td colspan="2" class="paddingRow"></td></tr>
<tr>
<td colspan="2"><h:selectBooleanCheckbox value="#{SearchProperties.modifiedDateChecked}" id="chkModDate" /><span style="vertical-align:20%"><h:outputText value="#{msg.modified_date}" id="modDate" />:</span></td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td style="padding-left:8px"><h:outputText value="#{msg.from}" id="modDateFrom" />:</td><td><a:inputDatePicker value="#{SearchProperties.modifiedDateFrom}" yearCount="#{DatePickerGenerator.yearCount}" startYear="#{DatePickerGenerator.startYear}" id="dateModFrom" initialiseIfNull="true" /></td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td style="padding-left:8px"><h:outputText value="#{msg.to}" id="modDateTo" />:</td><td><a:inputDatePicker value="#{SearchProperties.modifiedDateTo}" yearCount="#{DatePickerGenerator.yearCount}" startYear="#{DatePickerGenerator.startYear}" id="dateModTo" initialiseIfNull="true" /></td>
</tr>

<tr>
<td colspan="2"><h:selectBooleanCheckbox value="#{SearchProperties.createdDateChecked}" id="chkCreateDate" /><span style="vertical-align:20%"><h:outputText value="#{msg.created_date}" id="createDate" />:</span></td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td style="padding-left:8px"><h:outputText value="#{msg.from}" id="createDateFrom" />:</td><td><a:inputDatePicker value="#{SearchProperties.createdDateFrom}" yearCount="#{DatePickerGenerator.yearCount}" startYear="#{DatePickerGenerator.startYear}" id="dateCreatedFrom" initialiseIfNull="true" /></td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td style="padding-left:8px"><h:outputText value="#{msg.to}" id="createDateTo" />:</td><td><a:inputDatePicker value="#{SearchProperties.createdDateTo}" yearCount="#{DatePickerGenerator.yearCount}" startYear="#{DatePickerGenerator.startYear}" id="dateCreatedTo" initialiseIfNull="true" /></td>
</tr>
</table>
<div style="padding:4px"></div>
<a:panel label="#{msg.additional_options}" id="custom-panel" style="font-weight:bold" progressive="true"
expanded='#{SearchProperties.panels["custom-panel"]}' expandedActionListener="#{AdvancedSearchDialog.expandPanel}">
<r:searchCustomProperties id="customProps" bean="SearchProperties" var="customProperties" style="padding-left:12px;padding-top:4px" />
</a:panel>
</td>
</tr>
</table>
</a:panel>
</td>

</tr>
</table>

<% PanelGenerator.generatePanelEnd(out, request.getContextPath(), "white"); %>
</td>

<td valign="top">
<% PanelGenerator.generatePanelStart(out, request.getContextPath(), "greyround", "#F5F5F5"); %>
<table cellpadding="1" cellspacing="1" border="0">
<tr>
<td align="center">
<h:commandButton id="search-button" value="#{msg.search}" action="#{AdvancedSearchDialog.search}" styleClass="wizardButton" />
</td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td align="center">
<h:commandButton value="#{msg.close}" action="browse" styleClass="wizardButton" />
</td>
</tr>
</table>
<% PanelGenerator.generatePanelEnd(out, request.getContextPath(), "greyround"); %>
</td>
</tr>
</table>
</td>
<td style="background-image: url(<%=request.getContextPath()%>/images/parts/whitepanel_6.gif)" width="4"></td>
</tr>

<%– Error Messages –%>
<tr valign="top">
<td style="background-image: url(<%=request.getContextPath()%>/images/parts/whitepanel_4.gif)" width="4"></td>
<td>
<%– messages tag to show messages not handled by other specific message tags –%>
<h:messages globalOnly="true" styleClass="errorMessage" layout="table" />
</td>
<td style="background-image: url(<%=request.getContextPath()%>/images/parts/whitepanel_6.gif)" width="4"></td>
</tr>

<%– separator row with bottom panel graphics –%>
<tr>
<td><img src="<%=request.getContextPath()%>/images/parts/whitepanel_7.gif" width="4" height="4"></td>
<td width="100%" align="center" style="background-image: url(<%=request.getContextPath()%>/images/parts/whitepanel_8.gif)"></td>
<td><img src="<%=request.getContextPath()%>/images/parts/whitepanel_9.gif" width="4" height="4"></td>
</tr>

</table>
</td>
</tr>
</table>

</h:form>

</f:view>

</r:page>

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and here it goes the bean file, web-client-config-custom.xml:

<alfresco-config>

<!–
<config evaluator="string-compare" condition="Content Wizards">

      <content-types>
         <type name="aecid:sop"  />
      </content-types>
   </config>
   <config evaluator="node-type" condition="aecid:sop">
      <property-sheet>
         <show-property name="name"  />

         <show-property name="mimetype" display-label-id="content_type"
                        component-generator="MimeTypeSelectorGenerator" />
         <show-property name="encoding" display-label-id="encoding"
                        ignore-if-missing="false"
                        component-generator="CharsetSelectorGenerator" />

         <show-property name="title"  />

         <show-property name="description" display-label-id="description"
                        ignore-if-missing="false" component-generator="MultilingualTextAreaGenerator" />
         <show-property name="author" display-label-id="author"
                        ignore-if-missing="false" />

         <show-property name="size" display-label-id="size"
                        converter="org.alfresco.faces.ByteSizeConverter"  />
         <show-property name="aecid:pd" />
         <show-property name="aecid:md" />
      </property-sheet>
   </config>
<beans>
    <bean id="org.alfresco.web.bean.search.AdvancedSearchDialog" >
–>

<config evaluator="string-compare" condition="Advanced Search" >
   <advanced-search>
      <content-types>
         <type name="cm:content" />
      </content-types>
      <folder-types>
      </folder-types>

      <custom-properties>
        <meta-data type="cm:content" property="cm:aecid_custom_publish_date" />
        <meta-data type="cm:content" property="cm:aecid_custom_modification_date" />
      </custom-properties>
   </advanced-search>
</config>

</alfresco-config>

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[savic_prvoslav]

Can you search in node browser for your files of that aspect?

[zinformatica]

Can you search in node browser for your files of that aspect?

I can see the files i am looking for when browsing the content, i mean, the files ARE there

What do you mean with searching in the node browser?

thanks.

[savic_prvoslav]

node browser is:
go to admin page, and you will find node browser try to find the nodes with using lucene search like

ASPECT:"{http://www.alfresco.org/model/content/1.0}titled"
 ASPECT:"cm:titled"
 ASPECT:"titled"‍‍‍

Justo to see if this works.

the thing is that alfresco search works in a way that advanced search bean generates lucene query and you than see results of it.There for try to execute lucene search your self and letter see if this works in alfresco browser.