Search requirement

Hello Experts,

I want users to run search queries against to full text engine as long as possible. But, full text engine may require some time to index before the files is ready for search. What I want to do is to search the indexed file from index serve and non indexed ones from the database, and join them and return the results back to user. Is that possible?. The objects are case folders and should be searched based on their attribute. Please share your practices.

Thanks in advance

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DCTM_Guru

Not sure if you this addresses your use case, but xplore has a search subscription feature that you execute searches on a period basis. For example: send daily whats new email. This way, the user will get new content every time the search is executed. From an indexing perspective, you would get more in the result set as the number of documents indexed increases.

Imran_Yusubov

Hello Johnny,

That would not work for me. But instead you can share your experiences with me. Currently I have two types of search in our application. One is taskspace simple search which allows me to search against the database based on case attributes. The advantage of it is that, it allows me to search right after the content had been created.

The other one is advanced search and it allows to make searches based on content. Now I want to decrease the load on database by turning off the simple search and make all searches against to xPlore. But, the users should be able to search right after (2-3 minutes at most) the new cases had been created. Please let me know if there is anything that I can do to decrease the indexing time. What approach do you usually use for your customers.

Fortunately, the number of cases that will be created daily is not very huge (at most two hundreds).

DCTM_Guru

You really havent told us why your indexing is taking a long time (eg lots of files, size of files, etc). If its lots of files, you can speed up indexing by add more index agents.

MuhammadAli

We have customized Advanced search and regular search in Webtop. We have given user radio button to indicate search by Name/Subject of document only. When user selects this option we would run the search against the database by setting the query builder object to search database.

Techncially you could extend search component, override initSearch method o, call getSearchInfo( ) to get SearchInfo object and access query builder and call setDatabaseSearchRequested(true)

SearchInfo info = getSearchInfo(); IDfQueryBuilder qb = info.getQueryBuilder(); qb.setDatabaseSearchRequested(true);

Our users know if they could not find a document right away, they would search by name and can find it. Works for us in our webtop.

Imran_Yusubov

1. Inherit acl from folde 2. Update cabinet acls and revoke dm world read access 3. Update current content acls and reindex whole docbase. With these modifications, l was able to achive my goal.