Webservices maximum hits limited to 1000

[ShaneH]

When using the webservices search function, I can only ever receive a maximum of 1000 hits - despite setting maxHits in the search options greater than that.

[ShaneH]

Also, the moreHits field is always empty

[car031]

This is an hard coded limit in the search core module, introduced for performance reasons and no users reached this limit by the way.

If you have 1000 hits your search is quite unusable, in this cse it would be better to navigate the folders tree instead of searching.

This bug will be closed in one day if no reliable motivation will be provided.

[ShaneH]

1) Because it is not possible to perform a search for different values contained within different template fields, installations with large numbers of documents may run into this issue and need the ability to further filter the results.

For example - I cannot perform a search for "Application Form" in the Document Type field and combine that with a search for "Smith" in the Client Name field. If there are 3000+ application forms, I lose the ability to filter the results for Smith on any hits over the 1000 limit. These documents may well be contained within separate folders within the installation.

2) Statistical analysis of your documents / data is not possible whilst limited to 1000 results.

3) This is an unexpected behaviour as it is not documented.

Whilst I understand that there may be a performance impact if you unlock this limit, would it be possible to allow access to the next set of results, possibly by using a separate webservice?

[car031]

Why don't you do a directory listing and retrieve all the documents?

[ShaneH]

As noted - the documents may well be contained within separate folders or subfolders meaning that I would have to do many directory listings to retrieve all relevant documents.