Specifying slices in a search

I'm currently trying to get the searchservice to work, but i'm having some problems understanding what to supply and what the different data is. For instance, what is a slice? I'm loged on as an administrator, but i keep getting the message "The slice is not accessible". I've found a query in the "Search API programming Guide" which is ?func=search.getslices. I was hoping to use this in order to retrieve the available slices for the current user. The query i specified was: ?func=search.getslices&userlogin=admin

I've also tried the following request:

SingleSearchRequest request = new SingleSearchRequest();

            request.DataCollectionSpec = "\"Help\"";
            request.FirstResultToRetrieve = 1;
            request.NumResultsToRetrieve = 10;
            request.QueryLanguage = "Livelink Search API V1";
            request.ResultOrderSpec = "where1=enterprise+web+services";

return request;

Anyone who can point me in the right direction?

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Kyle_Swidrovich

Hello Andre,

A slice is simply a data collection that one can search against, defined by a "template" that appears in the Slice Folder of the System Object Volume within Content Server. Example slices are "Enterprise" and "Enterprise [All Versions]".

Please see my posted sample of using the SearchService (C#) here:

https://knowledge.opentext.com/knowledge/llisapi.dll/Properties/16928016

Section #4 should provide what you're looking for:
//==================================================================================
// 4) List Searchable Data Source Slices
//==================================================================================
...

Best regards,

Kyle

Andre_Sovde

Your code helped me alot. But i'm having some trouble retrieving documents based upon creation date. I've uploaded a document which i'm able to retrieve using search when i set the ResultSetSpec to where1=documentname, but when i try to search for the document using a daterange the search won't retrieve it. Here's the code:

               SearchService.SingleSearchRequest query = new SearchService.SingleSearchRequest();
                query.DataCollectionSpec = "'LES Enterprise'";         // use the Enterprise search slice
                query.QueryLanguage = "Livelink Search API V1";         // use the Search API for queries
                query.FirstResultToRetrieve = 1;                        // start retrieving results at Result #1
                query.NumResultsToRetrieve = 7;                         // retrieve up to 5 search results
                query.ResultOrderSpec = "sortByRegion=OTCreatedBy";     // sort by the OTCreatedBy region
                //query.ResultSetSpec = "where1=" + whereClause;        // set the where clause of the query
                query.ResultSetSpec = "where1=\"<OTObjectDate>\"range\"20070713~2007071\"&lookfor1=otstarts";

query.ResultTransformationSpec = new string[] { "Score", "OTName", "OTLocation", "OTObjectDate" }; // set the displayed/retrieved regions for each result

// Execute the search
SearchService.SingleSearchResponse results = ss.Search(ssOTAuth, query, "");