Documentum Search Customization

In many of our documentum projects we need to customize the search/ advanced search component. I am not going to explain you how to do this as I have found a very good document which may solve your requirement.

Check out below link and you may be lucky enough to get ready made answer J

https://developer-content.emc.com/developer/downloads/Tips_CustomizingSearchInWebtop.pdf

Common requirements can be:

Customize advanced search component to

Add types

Change panel visibility

Add the date range to search documents

All above changes can be done using xml changes. Just check for respective attributes in xml file /webcomponent/config/library/search/advsearch_component.xml

Normal search is defined in component /webtop/config/search_component.xml

Main components in search functionality :

Search60.java

AdvSearchEx.java

Search60_component.xml

Search_component.xml

Advsearch_component.xml