WCM Search vs. regular Document Search (Space)

[fmurialdo]

The WCM search doesn't seem to be working, at least by default.
I have one Web Project visible under "Company Home > Web Projects" in the section  "Browse Spaces".
If I perform a 'search' available on the top right of the web page next to the username, it doesn't find anything that is in my web project whether done by name or by content.
If I do an 'Advanced Search' (alfresco/faces/jsp/dialog/advanced-search.jsp) accessing the page from the drop down on the left of the search text box,
select "All Spaces" or even pick specifically my web project using "Specify Space", it still doesn't return anything.
However if I add a dummy file in "Company Home > Web Projects > User Homes > franck" so it shows in "Content Items" then that file comes out in the search if I search for it.

Anybody knows how to make the search work for WCM items?

Thanks!

Franck.

[kvc]

In 2.1, the latest snapshot of staging is indexed, both full text and asset properties.  For XML, you can use an XMLMetadataExtractor to ensure key elements that you need to query on within an XML document are queryable - you can find out more about this on our wiki.

For your run-time website, all content within any web project (ie, the latest snapshot in staging) is fully searchable using Search API or the Javascript API.  Each web project is treated as it's own repository (in fact, each sandbox is actually it's own independent data store), and so when you are creating a web script, for example, to query the repo, you first have to set which store you are querying.  Once again, documentation for this can be found on the wiki.

What does 2.1 not have?  Out of the box, an interface for search isn't provided in the web client.  The content is indexed underneath.  The priority for the 2.1 release was to ensure search could power a run-time site and unfortunately the exposing that in our own web client was a lower priority for this release.

Adding a custom dashlet written as a web script is one possibility in the interim however.  I believe there may be a community contribution for this coming in the next week or so.


KEvin