Search in Content DB

Question

When searching for content, there is a hit only if the "Look in" field is set to the
folder where the document is located. It seems like "search in subfolders" does
not work.
And there is no a control to choose if the user wants to search in the current
folder, or also in the subfolders.
Regards
Gerard De Maeyer

Answer 1

Attributes.CREATED_BY is of type "Item".
To submit a search, it is unrealistic to expect a client to provide an Item instance as the value in a SearchExpression.
Rather, the client can instead provide the ID of a USER item instance, or alternatively, the NAME of a USER item instance, in place of the actual item instance itself.
On the server-side, Content DB will lookup the ID value or NAME value to locate the appropriate user item instance and process the search accordingly.
ManagersFactory session = ...
UserManager userM = session.getUserManager();
Item user = userM.getUser("max", null);
SearchExpression docsCreatedByMax = new SearchExpression();
docsCreatedByMax.setOperator(FdkConstants.OPERATOR_EQUAL);
docsCreatedByMax.setLeftOperation(Attributes.CREATED_BY + FdkConstants.SEPARATOR + Attributes.ID);
docsCreatedByMax.setRightOperand(new Long(user.getId());
NamedValue[] options = ...
AttributeRequest[] requestedAttributes = ....
NamedValue[] searchResults = searchM.search(docsCreatedByMax, options, requestedAttributes);
or alternatively ....
SearchExpression docsCreatedByMax = new SearchExpression();
docsCreatedByMax.setOperator(FdkConstants.OPERATOR_EQUAL);
docsCreatedByMax.setLeftOperation(Attributes.CREATED_BY + FdkConstants.SEPARATOR + Attributes.NAME);
docsCreatedByMax.setRightOperand("max");
NamedValue[] options = ...
AttributeRequest[] requestedAttributes = ....
NamedValue[] searchResults = searchM.search(docsCreatedByMax, options, requestedAttributes);cheers
Matt.