Currently Alfresco Share has a general use search functionality. It has a textbox on the top right corner intended to perform search in the whole site for documents, wiki articles, blog posts ...

Internally it performs search on content (fulltext search), name, title, description properties and tags.
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• Main features

Main features¶

Currently Alfresco Share has a general use search functionality. It has a textbox on the top right corner intended to perform search in the whole site for documents, wiki articles, blog posts ...

Internally it performs search on content (fulltext search), name, title, description properties and tags.
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If you're interested in all features above and want to give them a try, here a step-by-step guide:

This add-on has been developed for 3.2CE, 3.2r2CE and 3.2.0rEE Alfresco versions.

Before you start installation we highly recommend you to backup alfresco_installation\tomcat\webapps\share folder, so you'll be able to restore "Share" to its original state.
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• Possible improvements
  • Auto-complete for Tags and Categories

Possible improvements¶

Here some features that could make Share's search feature more powerful:

Auto-complete for Tags and Categories¶

In search forms, most properties are represented by simple text fields. It's not a big issue if it is the author or the title that you're querying, because internally we're using wildcards (*) for those ordinary properties.
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