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Omar Shahine
Asked: 2009-05-02 10:29:47 +0800 CST

How can you search a sharepoint library using Windows 7 Search Federation?

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I'd like to create a custom search provider for a sharepoint document library on Windows 7

search sharepoint windows-7

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  1. Best Answer

    Have a look at Create a Windows 7 Federated Search provider for SharePoint by Ian Morrish. This describes the OSDX file you need to create.

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  2. In case the referenced blog post dissapears, the markup looks like this:

    <?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?>
    <OpenSearchDescription xmlns="http://a9.com/-/spec/opensearch/1.1/" xmlns:ms-ose="http://schemas.microsoft.com/opensearchext/2009/">
    <ShortName>WSSDemo Site</ShortName>
    <Description>Search the Ian Morrish Sharepoint Demo site.</Description>
    <Url type="application/rss+xml" template="http://www.wssdemo.com/search/_layouts/srchrss.aspx?k={searchTerms}&amp;start={startIndex}&amp;s=WSSDemo%20Content"/>
    <Url type="text/html" template="http://www.wssdemo.com/search/Pages/Results.aspx?k={searchTerms}&amp;s=WSSDemo%20Content"/>
    <!-- Win7 M3 syntax -->
    <ms-ose:locationProperties>
    <ms-ose:property name="TreatLinkAsEnclosure">-1</ms-ose:property>
    </ms-ose:locationProperties>
    <!-- Win7 Beta syntax -->
    <ms-ose:ResultsProcessing format="application/rss+xml">
    <ms-ose:LinkIsFilePath>-1</ms-ose:LinkIsFilePath>
    </ms-ose:ResultsProcessing>
    </OpenSearchDescription>

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