Search Portlet: how to search documents only under a specific folder

2019-05-16T09:05:18Z

Hi, I am using Liferay 6.2 and I am customizing search portlet. I have developed a couple of custom assets and I configured the portlet to search only for these entities, in this way:

{"facets": [
&nbsp; &nbsp; {
&nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; "displayStyle": "asset_entries",
&nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; "weight": 1.5,
&nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; "static": false,
&nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; "order": "OrderHitsDesc",
&nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; "data": {
&nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; "values": [
&nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; "com.liferay.portlet.documentlibrary.model.DLFileEntry",
&nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; "com.liferay.portlet.documentlibrary.model.DLFolder",
&nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; "com.nttdata.nos.maps.model.Processo",
&nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; "it.saving.nos.org.model.Structure"
&nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; ],
&nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; "frequencyThreshold": 1
&nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; },
&nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; "label": "asset-type",
&nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; "className": "com.liferay.portal.kernel.search.facet.AssetEntriesFacet",
&nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; "fieldName": "entryClassName"
&nbsp; &nbsp; },
.....

It works but now I need that, when a user perform a search, only documents under a specific folder are returned (ie: only docs in "MyDocs" folder or in any subfolders) so in the hooked main_search.jsp page I added the following line

searchContext.setFolderIds(folderIds);

where folderIds is an array containing all ids of MyDocs folder and any subfolder.

But it doesn't work! I am still able to search document in folders out of MyDocs subtree, and looking at the generated query , it doesn't contains any directive to restrict the search...

What I am missing?

thanks in advance,
Marco