Searching for multiple terms

[supr]

Hi,

I am very new to Alfresco and am trialling its search functionality. How do I search for content containing multiple words e.g. dog AND cat? When I enter this search query into the Advanced Search interface I get back all documents that contain dog OR cat. Is this the default?

Thanks

[kevinr]

Hello,

Currently the search presented in the web-client UI is using OR terms by default. The Alfresco repository supports the full Lucene syntax and search terms such as AND etc. however we have not yet exposed them all in the client. In future releases we will be exposing more powerful search to make it more "google like".

Thanks,

Kevin

[supr]

Thanks for your response. Could you tell me what exactly I can expect from the search functionality in the next Open version release? In particular, I am looking for wildcard searching and searching on metadata only.

Thanks,
supr

[kevinr]

The search functionality is identical in Open/Enterprise versions. The underlying search mechanism available to Alfresco APIs uses Lucene for fast and powerful full text and attribute searching. At present the web-client exposes only some of the Lucene features to the user, reading this article should give you some idea of where we are today and where we are heading with V1.2 search:
http://www.alfresco.org/forums/viewtopic.php?t=802

Thanks,

Kevin