Executing search query over web service.

Christian_Huettinger

Hello Experts,

I have a saved search query and was wondering how I can execute this query via Livelink's webservice (ECM 9.7.1).  I was thinking I can pass the search query's objid and also pass a date parameter to the SearchService web service but haven't been able to figure out what method to call.  I need to bring back the result set into my client app.

I've tried SearchService.SearchServiceClient.Search() method and fudge the SingleSearchRequest.ResultSetSpec property to include the search query's objid but I think I'm going the wrong direction.

Can anyone confirm that this is possible and if so maybe provide some code?

Thanks.

Kyle_Swidrovich

Hello Christian,

I checked with R&D and unfortunately this is not possible through the SearchService (known feature request LESAPI-760).
The RESTful Search API also seems to have this limitation as well.

The best option available at this time would be to "Run" the query directly and parse the resultant HTML:
?func=ll&objID=1234&objAction=Run&startAt=0

StartAt in this case is 0-based (known issue) instead of 1-based as with the normal Search API.

Regards,
Kyle