Liferay 7.1 - Filtering search results by specific custom field

RE: Liferay 7.1 - Filtering search results by specific custom field

2018-11-28T02:02:28Z

Hahaha love it when that happens. I can't even count the number bet of things I've learned about Liferay that started with me stumbling into something :). Thanks for sharing!

RE: Liferay 7.1 - Filtering search results by specific custom field

2018-11-27T19:33:03Z

Andrew,

I'm not sure, I just found it myself while looking for something else :)

RE: Liferay 7.1 - Filtering search results by specific custom field

2018-11-27T16:51:30Z

Hey Amos,

I just checked your link -- very cool! Is that something that is new to 7.1?

RE: Liferay 7.1 - Filtering search results by specific custom field

2018-11-27T16:49:01Z

Hi Jan,

Usually when I I want to accomplish something like this I would use the setBooleanClauses() method on teh search context, rather than changing the keywords that the user entered. It's still working with the searchContext (as you are right now) but you would do something like ..

BooleanClause expandoClause = BooleanClauseFactoryUtil.create(<expando field name>, <your value>,BooleanClauseOccur.MUST.toString());
searchContext.setBooleanClauses(new BooleanClause[]{expandoClause});

That usually works for me.

RE: Liferay 7.1 - Filtering search results by specific custom field

2018-11-26T22:36:27Z

For searching by expandos, maybe try something similar to this?

https://github.com/liferay/liferay-portal/blob/master/modules/apps/portal-search/portal-search-test-util/src/main/java/com/liferay/portal/search/test/util/expando/BaseExpandoTestCase.java#L303

Liferay 7.1 - Filtering search results by specific custom field

2018-11-20T17:05:34Z

In LR 6.2 I could filter the results by modifying the search context this way:

searchContext.setKeywords(keywords + " AND expando/custom_fields/region:" + myRegion);

In ElasticSearch custom fields are named differently, but this doesn't work (returns no results):

searchContext.setKeywords(keywords + " AND expando__custom_fields__region:" + myRegion);

How this kind of filter can be accomplished? (I am customizing the User Admin search code).