I am new to thunderstone. I am trying to find out if it is possible to search PDF documents using metadata like pdf file name, date created, date modified, etc.
File name can be included in the searchable content, by adding it to the "Index Fields" setting.
> date modified
The Modified Date of the PDF should be automatically extracted and used for things like "Modified Date Greater Than" queries and "order by date".
> date created
You can choose to use date created instead of date modified for "the date" of the pdf if you want. Depending on exactly which Thunderstone product you go with, it's possible to keep another date in a separate user field to be searched or sorted.
I am working on a Proof of concept so I want to demonstrate that we can search PDF documents using date created for PDF. We are using Webinator 6.1.0, can I do it without creating any custom search page?
> I want to demonstrate that we can search PDF
> documents using date created for PDF
There's two things you'll need to do.
* First you should change "Result Style" on search settings to something that includes showing the date, otherwise you won't see any ramifications from this.
* Second you can create a "Data From Field" rule that instructs the walk to use the CreationDate as the modified date, like this:
From Field: Meta Field ->
From Meta Field: CreationDate
To Field: Modify Date
The next time a "new" walk is performed, the PDFs should use their creation date instead of modified date.