Re: Document List Searching

I'm by no means a complete expert on what MOSS offers OOTB. I am discovering new functionality that SharePoint 2003 did not offer every day. But, if you can't find an OOTB solution and client-side code is allowable, SharePoint offers a very extensive web services API. It's part of the SDK. You can check it out here:
http://msdn.microsoft.com/library/en-us/spptsdk/html/soapnsMicrosoftSharePointSoapServer2_SV01043862.asp?frame=true

Specifically, take a look at the Lists service. That has web methods for querying list items using CAML. The GetListItems method will probably be very useful to you. I've used the web services API from both the server, Windows forms apps, and AJAX apps with very good results.
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-Eugene Rosenfeld

"JetsMate" <JetsMate@xxxxxxxxx> wrote in message news:1160268029.325561.103760@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
Thank you for the response. At least that tells me my problem is not
just a RTFM problem.

I have seen the SDK. The sample shows how to do a custom IFilterValues
implementation, but, as I mentioned, I am completely unable to go with
the custom code solution. My solution has to pretty much with OOTB
parts only. That said, I can be very creative... for example, if there
was a way to expose the contents of the list (or all of the XML files)
through a web service URL that I could call from XMLHttpRequest...
Sure, it might burn up the wire and have serious latency issues, but am
I looking at a helluva lot of pain to solve it that way, or maybe only
a little?

Thanks


Eugene Rosenfeld wrote:
I'm not sure if you can do this OOTB or not. You may want to check out code
samples form the latest SharePoint Portal 2007 SDK. The SDK and code sample
are two sperate files, both available here:
http://www.microsoft.com/downloads/details.aspx?FamilyID=6D94E307-67D9-41AC-B2D6-0074D6286FA9&displaylang=en

There is a filter web part code sample in the "C:\2007 Office System
Developer Resources\SharePoint Server 2007 SDK\Code Samples\Beta 2 TR SDK
Samples\WebPartFiltersAndConsumers\MyWebPartLibrary" directory. The filter
app they create only allows one connection at a time, as referenced by this
line:
[aspnetwebparts.ConnectionConsumer("Simple Consumer", "IFilterValues",
AllowsMultipleConnections = false)]

Perhaps you can use the sample to create something that meets your needs.

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-Eugene Rosenfeld

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