Searching in Alfresco
Once you have uploaded your content and documents in the repository and your team is also continuously uploading documents, it is now required to have a potent search functionality that can help you to find your document correctly and easily.
The Search functionality is one of the important aspects when choosing a CMS, and as you may know, Alfresco uses the Apache Lucene search engine; a high-performance, full-featured text search engine.
Along with the Lucene search engine, Alfresco's search capability is powered by Open Office, which is able to extract text from many file formats and make them available to the Lucene search engine. Thus, Alfresco, as a Content Management System, provides a powerful search mechanism by which users can easily search and find documents they are looking for.
Searching for content is normally done by users by keywords and metadata. Metadata means a property of files such as name, title, author, description, date, and so on. For example,...
