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One of the main features of my Joomla based site is to serve as a pdf article database that is searchable by predefined categories. There are over 200 pdf articles that are clasified by about 8 different categories (author name, article type, subject, etc). Can EE handle something like this? I assume it can but in my preliminary searches I couldn’t find anything. Thanks-

Yes, certainly. It is totally up to you to define the data structure of your site, and with EE’s unlimited number of custom fields, you can certainly do that.

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It’s definitely doable- ‘how’ may vary.  EE’s search can’t be limited to a specific weblog field- but you can have multiple category groups and entries can be assigned to multiple categories.  So as long as your criteria can fit into a category structure?  It’s very easy and links to the various categories can be generated dynamically with tags.

Now- if you CAN’T use, say ‘author name’ as a category (and you can’t use it as the entry author)- then you’d probably need to use the query module to do a search on just the custom field that holds the author names.  Though there is a third party plugin that allows you to limit the weblog tag return based on a specific field.  Or- Solspace has a nice ‘keyword’ module that might work for that sort of functionality.

But short answer- it should be doable.  The ‘How’ and ‘How hard’ are going to vary a bit based on the details.