12. Search
by Vinita Choudhary, Pallika Majumdar, Munwar Shariff, Amita Bhandari
Alfresco 3 Enterprise Content Management Implementation
- Alfresco 3 Enterprise Content Management Implementation
- Table of Contents
- Alfresco 3 Enterprise Content Management Implementation
- Credits
- About the Author
- About the Co-Authors
- Acknowledgements
- About the Reviewers
- Preface
- 1. Introduction to Alfresco
- 2. Installing Alfresco
- Installing Alfresco
- Out of the box installation architecture
- Choosing the right installation option
- Installing on Microsoft Windows
- Full installation
- Installation of the Alfresco Tomcat bundle
- Installation of other Alfresco Components
- Installation folder structure
- Starting and stopping Alfresco as a console application
- Configuring Alfresco as a Windows service
- Installing on Linux
- Installing extensions with AMP Install
- Summary
- Installing Alfresco
- 3. Getting Started with Alfresco
- Introduction to Alfresco Explorer
- Getting started with content creation
- My Alfresco dashboards
- Start with basic configuration
- Extend Alfresco configuration
- Install the enterprise license file
- Change the default administrator password
- Configure the content store
- Configure the relational database
- Configure the email service and email server
- Configure the log files
- Configure the Alfresco virtual file system
- Configure the default logos
- Customize the look and feel using CSS
- Configure multilanguage support
- Creating a blue print for your application
- Summary
- 4. Implementing Membership and Security
- 5. Implementing Document Management
- Managing spaces
- Managing content
- Library services
- Categorizing content
- Managing multilingual content
- Using network drives to manage content
- Microsoft Office 2003 add-ins
- Recovering deleted content
- The Data Dictionary and space templates
- Discussions on spaces and documents
- RSS syndication
- Migrating existing content into Alfresco
- Summary
- 6. Implementing Business Rules
- 7. Extending the Alfresco Content Model
- Custom configuration
- Custom aspect
- Constraints
- Advanced property sheet configuration
- Custom content type
- When do you need a custom content type
- Steps to add a custom content type
- Define the custom content type
- Extend the content model with the custom content type
- Configure the web client for the custom content type
- Add custom content type
- Create a Press Release as HTML content
- Create business rules targeting the custom content type
- Custom associations
- Dynamic models
- Summary
- 8. Implementing Workflow
- Introduction to the Alfresco workflow process
- Simple Workflow
- Advanced workflows
- Workflow user interactions
- Out of the box features
- Creating custom advanced workflows
- Track the status of this workflow through a customized dashlet
- Out of the box features of the workflow task list's dashboards
- Integration with rules
- Summary
- 9. Integrating External Applications with Alfresco
- The Alfresco content platform
- Web Scripts
- Various application integration examples
- Integrating with Liferay
- Integrating with Drupal
- Integrating with Joomla!
- Integrating with Adobe Flex
- Email integration: MS Outlook, Lotus Notes, Novell, and Thunderbird
- Integrating with iPhone
- Integrating with iGoogle
- Integrating with FFMPEG video transcoder
- Integrating with ViewOnePro image viewer
- Integrating with the Facebook social network application
- CMIS
- Summary
- 10. Advanced Collaboration Using Alfresco Share
- Alfresco Share
- My Dashboard
- My Profile
- Sites
- People
- Using your personal dashboard
- Using a site
- Customize a site
- Customizing a site's dashboard
- Editing the site details
- Configuring the site dashboard RSS feed
- Configuring the Wiki site dashlet
- Subscribing to an RSS feed
- Tagging site content
- Selecting a page
- The Wiki page
- The Document Library page
- Accessing the Document Library page
- Browsing the library
- Creating a folder structure
- Adding items to the library
- Working with individual library items
- Viewing an item
- Add a comment to a library item
- Editing a library item comment
- Deleting a library item comment
- Editing an item
- Downloading an item
- Upload updated content
- Deleting an item
- Editing item details
- Copying an item
- Moving an item
- Assigning workflow to an item
- Managing permissions for an item
- Working with multiple library items
- The Calendar page
- The Blog page
- The Discussions page
- Managing site users
- Benefits of using Alfresco Share
- SharePoint protocol support with Alfresco Enterprise 3.0
- Alfresco Share
- 11. Customizing the User Interface
- Configuring Alfresco Explorer
- Configuring views
- User configurable dashboards
- Using a FreeMarker dashlet from the repository
- Customizing Alfresco Share
- Presentation templates
- Configure custom webscripts
- Configure custom dashlets
- Configure custom components in Alfresco Share
- Rich user interface using Flex
- Customizing JSP Client
- Various user interface options
- Summary
- Configuring Alfresco Explorer
- 12. Search
- 13. Implementing Imaging and Forms Processing
- 14. Administering and Maintaining the System
- Index
The success of Content Management Systems depends on their ability to locate the required content with the least amount of clicks. The way you choose the content name, the way you categorize the content, the location where you place the content, and the meta-data property values that you provide will all help you to locate the content more easily. You will realize the benefits of having a powerful search engine when you have a large number of files in your Content Management System. In this chapter, you will examine the advanced search features of Alfresco, and extend the capabilities of search.
By the end of this chapter, you will have learned how to:
- Use the advanced search form
- Extend search capabilities
- Define and save search criteria as reusable reports
- Use Alfresco's OpenSearch features
- Configure Alfresco as a federated search client across multiple external repositories and search engines
- Configure Alfresco's search engine
Unlike many commercial Content Management Systems, Alfresco includes a free and very powerful search engine called Lucene as part of its installation. Therefore, you don't have to buy and install a third-party search engine. Moreover, you don't have to deal with integration issues and upgrades.
By using Alfresco, you will be able to search both content and properties. You can perform a full-text search on any word in the content, regardless of the format. You can search for content in a particular space. You can also search for content belonging to certain categories or of a specific type. You can search for content created or modified between certain dates, created by a specific person, and so on. You can extend the search capabilities to search for custom content types and custom property values.
By default, all content in Alfresco is full-text searchable. Any content that has been uploaded to Alfresco, such as the following types, will be internally converted to text, indexed and made searchable:
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