Custom Advanced Search - Webtop

GlaucoFimLouzada

Hi,

I need to make the following customizations, in Webtop Advanced Search:

1. Limit the number of results returned, in 300 results. (this is done)

2. Display the quatity of results returned;

3. If the amount of results is greater than 300, provide option to displaying the rest of results;

4. Allows searches only if it is inserted at least one search criteria.

The number 1 was implemented with the information "dfc.search.maxresults=300", in 'dfc.properties' file.

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GlaucoFimLouzada

Hi,

The item 4 (search criteria) was solved with the following development:

. Extended the 'com.documentum.webcomponent.library.advsearch.AdvSearchEx';

. Overrided methods 'onClickSearch' and 'onClickClear'.

In the method 'onClickSearch' the 'searchInfoNew.getQueryDescription ()' was used to validate if there was any search criteria filled.

DFC and WDK version: 5.3 SP6.

Thanks for your attention.

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lastnitescurry

re 1:

Doing 1 prevents you from doing 3!!! Unless you can figure out how Documentum reloads that setting from the dfc.properties, i.e. how you can do it per user session with out modifying the dfc.properties..

re 2:

What Webtop are you running? Webtop 6.x (6.7 definately) will do 2

re 4:

Customise the AdvSearch componet java class. In Webtop 6.7 I would extend

public void onSearchCriteriaUpdated(ISearchControl searchControl)

increment a counter.... i

Would be idea to reset your counter if

public void onClickClear(Button button, ArgumentList args)

Check your counter is greater than zero in

public void onClickSearch(Button button, ArgumentList args)

GlaucoFimLouzada

Hi Brian,

Thank you for your attention.

The Webtop and Content Server version is 5.3 SP6.

In the item 4 (search criteria), I've extended the AdvancedSearch java class,

but I didn't find 'onSearchCriteria' method (where to increment the counter).

Coud you help how to control with a search criteria was inserted in Advanced Search?

lastnitescurry

Must be a 6x method. The advanced search was heavliy changed from 5x to 6x. Suggest you examine the java source supplied with wdk.war and webtop.war

GlaucoFimLouzada

Hi,

The item 4 (search criteria) was solved with the following development:

. Extended the 'com.documentum.webcomponent.library.advsearch.AdvSearchEx';

. Overrided methods 'onClickSearch' and 'onClickClear'.

In the method 'onClickSearch' the 'searchInfoNew.getQueryDescription ()' was used to validate if there was any search criteria filled.

DFC and WDK version: 5.3 SP6.

Thanks for your attention.

MuhammadAli

Another solution for item 4. would be to override buildQuery method of AdvSearchEx, and then get query builder from search info. You could use visitor API to traverse the rootExpressionSet and find if there are any simple attribute expression or fulltext expression.

For solving 1 and 3, you could only achieve if you customize heavily. Out of the box dfc.properties limitation is honored by Search API i.e. if you run using regular search mechanism and to make Search60 work with your mechanism will be painful. If you were using 6.7 then there is a new way to determining the search result count, its called search hit count, it would have solved item 2. explore that if you could upgrade.

But you are using 5.3 so I suggest following, assuming you really need to do this regardless of painfulnes of customization

1. Extract the DQL query from query builder before you run the search. You can store this query in session

2. Override onUpdateSearchStatus( ) method of search60.java. This method has json data, find if the json data has attribute "results" with value ending with "+" i.e. 300+ then that means your result count is greater than 300.

3. Once you know the search has produced 300+ then you need to pass a flag to the same json data. This flag is passed down to javascript method renderSearchStatus(data) in searchresults.jsp. This method stops the search knowing the results are beyond 300.

4. Modify renderSearchStatus and obtain your flag, and give user a button on toolbar or anywhere that says "show me all results".

5. Once user click this button pop a new component (you cannot use out of the box search), run the DQL query you stored in the session using executeQuery( ) and show the results using regular grid/data provider. You cannot run this query using search API as it will never go beyond 300.

By the way I have achieved the result counting, if results are beyond 300+. My requirement was to just give exact count but not to show results on user request. I can tell you it needs a lot of work, a parallel thread that would calculate count while your search is working, it requires you to change javascript in searchresults.jsp and do not stop calling inline evnet updateSearchStatus even after search is completed, until your parallel thread comes back with count. And then you could replace the results label with the count. Let me know if you desperately need it because your users wouldn't understand complexity.