Re: [xwiki-users] How to configure search behavior in xwiki?

Hi Sergiu, Just to give more clarification about my original post I want to configure it in a way user should be able to search *and view* the other users who belongs to same group otherwise it should not be able to search *and view* other group user details

On Mon, Dec 26, 2011 at 12:20 PM, mohit gupta<motgupta(a)gmail.com> wrote: > Thanks Sergiu.As you told * Another option is to post-filter the results > returned by Lucene so that you remove all the user profiles that shouldn't > be returned. * I am also looking this kind of option but not getting in > which java class i need to make change for this.If you can throw some light > on this, it would be a great help. > > > On Mon, Dec 26, 2011 at 11:49 AM, Sergiu Dumitriu<sergiu(a)xwiki.com>wrote;wrote: > >> On 12/26/2011 12:40 AM, mohit gupta wrote: >> >>> I have configured to use Lucene search in my xwiki application. Right now >>> in xwiki , any user is able to search any other user details by >>> entering his deatils in serach text box.I want to configure it in a way >>> user should be able to search the other users who belongs to same group >>> otherwise it should not other group user details. Is it configurable in >>> xwiki or i need to make some changes in code for the same.Thanks. >>> >> >> Search results should only display what is normally visible by the >> current user. So, even though you might succeed in making Lucene not return >> these users in a query, the user profiles are still visible to the user. >> >> Another point, all users should normally be in at least one common group, >> XWiki.XWikiAllGroup, unless you explicitly disable this feature. >> >> Still, to answer your question, it should be possible to configure the >> search results so that it displays only users having a group in common, but >> it's not very easy. One problem is that groups are defined in a group >> document, while Lucene only considers one document at a time, so whenever >> it's considering whether or not to include a user document in the results, >> it doesn't have access to the group definition, so you'll have to somehow >> use this information some other way. One option is to change the indexing >> process so that each Lucene document corresponding to a user should also >> list all the groups that user belongs to. Another option is to post-filter >> the results returned by Lucene so that you remove all the user profiles >> that shouldn't be returned.