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Dynamic query in Smartfolder

brijeshnk

Hi All,

I have folllowing usecase

User upload documents in Alfresco with metadata attached for all the uploaded documents - for eg 'Policy number' .

A user from other group - Need to query using document with metadata ( 'Policy number' ) , while querying user input policy number.

To implement this

Can i provide Smart folde with dyanmic query based on user input ? - Is this something which is achievable using smartfolder or what would be the best option to implement such usecase?

Thanks a lot

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Comments

cesarista

I would say no, smart folders are mostly static saved queries (there is no user input).

It seems that you need some form like advance search form, or even a custom dashlet. For simple searches, for example, based on the policy number field, you can also use Alfresco Full Search Text syntax in search box.

Search in fields | Alfresco Documentation

Regards.

--C.

afaust

What you can do with Smart Folders though is have a smart folder template which includes metadata / properties set on the folder node as query parameters. In the smart folder template you can use placeholders for these properties that are then replace at query time with the current property value on the folder. So if your "user input" is that they can change this metadata on the folder to which you have applied the smart folder template, then they can dynamically affect the query of the folder.

brijeshnk

thanks a lot for the respone , based on your anser another query poped-up as follows:-

Is it possible to show the metadata as parameter in search critiera using a dropdown - This will helps user to select specific metada from dropdown and enter values to execute search.

brijeshnk

Thanks a lot Axel Faust , i think i got the exact solution for the problem. I will goahead and try-out this.

Another query is -

I assume that , i can dynamically set the meta-data to folder based on user input , but will be smart folder will get updated/refreshed automatically ? or Should i execute a script to do that ?

thansk a lot

afaust

When you change the metadata of the folder, the results of the query for the folder contents will change the next time the contents are requested. Depending on how you update the metadata, the UI may still show the contents based on the old data, so you might need to reload / refresh the UI to see the updated results.