Return bitstreams in dspace 7.1 search

[Fatima Caballero]

Hello, I wonder if it is possible that the searches return a file. As far as I know, the searches return communities, collections and items having to have a handle, but I am interested in knowing if it is possible for dspace to return a particular file. For example search by filename, and return the file, not the item that contains that file.

Thank you.

[Tim Donohue]

Hi,

DSpace can search within files which support full-text indexing (e.g. PDFs, Word documents, etc), provided that you occasionally run the "filter-media" script (usually you add this to a cronjob or similar, as it is what generates thumbnail images & extracts text from files for search indexing).  See https://wiki.lyrasis.org/display/DSDOC7x/Mediafilters+for+Transforming+DSpace+Content#MediafiltersforTransformingDSpaceContent-Executing(viaCommandLine)

However, even when a search matches the contents of a file, the *Item* which includes that file is returned in the search results.  Currently, there's no way in DSpace to return the file (or bitstream) in a search results list. 

Tim