Search on data lists

[gman]

I have created some data lists and have added items. I'm implementing David Allen's Get it Done into my work, and am adding tags such as @Action to the comments field. When I search on a site for @Action for example, zero results are returned. So does this mean you cannot search on data lists? Is there anyway to "tag" data list items so that someone  can filter items from multiple lists by a keyword?

[brian_robinson]

Use metadata search.  Data lists are modeled in alfresco in the same way everything else is.  Each field is stored as metadata, so use metadata based search.  You'll have to know what field exactly you're searching though.  Look in alfresco-3.3c/tomcat/webapps/alfresco/WEB-INF/classes/alfresco/model/datalistModel.xml to try to figure that out.

As an example, if you were searching the dl:todoNotes property of a dl:todoList item, you'd type "todoNotes: @Action" in the search box.

I'm not sure if this text based metadata search capability is in 3.3, or if it was introduced in 3.3g though.