SearchServiceClient.GetFieldInfo() not returning expected results

I have a category that has 20+ attributes in it. I need to do a search based on several of the attributes, but when I call the GetFieldInfo method, it is only returning 8 of the attributes. If I try to search from the Advanced Search screen in OpenText, I am able to search based on all attributes for that category.

This is the call I am making:

var fieldInfo = searchClient.GetFieldInfo(ref otAuth, "'LES Enterprise'", "The Category Name");

This returns 8 of the 21 attributes for the category. What am I missing in order to return the rest of the attributes? I can only search or return data dealing with those 8 attributes.

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Kyle_Swidrovich

Hi Cory,

Are all 21 attributes marked “Show In Search” on their configuration pages?

Kyle

Cory Taylor

Yes all of the attributes have the "Show in Search" box checked for that category. They do all show up in the Advanced Search, just not when I make the GetFieldInfo Web Service call.

Kyle_Swidrovich

From what I can see in the code, we do the following:
1) Add "Score" to the GetFieldInfo response list
2) Add all the "Displayable" regions to the list
3) Add all the "Queryable" regions to the list

NOTE: Category attributes cannot be marked "Queryable" because categories have their own component on the advanced search page. This does not mean that you cannot search them. "Queryable" simply means that you want the region to be selectable in the System Attributes component of the advanced search page.

Once we have this list, we filter the list on whatever you may have passed in as field hints.
In your case, it would be the category name.
The filtering is done on the Display Name of the regions in this list.

If the first character of your field hint is the equals sign (=), then it does an exact case-insensitive match against the region's display name.
That is, if your hint was "=Dog", it would not match on "Dogs" or "Bulldog", but it would match on "dog".

If you don't prefix it with an equals sign, then it will match if the hint exists anywhere in the region's display name (case-insensitive).

So, if you have not marked your category attributes as "Displayable", they will not end up in the list to be filtered.
I suspect that the only regions appearing for you are the ones marked as "Displayable" on the region settings page.