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Integrating WDS and other search providers Nick Karasev 04-20-2006
Posted by Nick Karasev on April 20, 2006, 11:13 am
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Is there an easy way to have WDS pass a search query to another server via
HTTP or any other protocol and accept the results back, similar to how
SharePoint search is handled?

That is, instead of WDS trying to index the remote data store is to simply
delegate the search and indexing to other service, but be able to display the
results returned.

The idea is that there are a lot of enterprise applications that keep their
information in multiple databases and file systems and only merge them at
runtime in response to a specific user request. These applications do provide
search capability of their own. What we want is to be able to use WDS to pass
search parameters in and display the results back which will be URLs of
dynamically generated web pages.

Thanks a lot!

Posted by Nick Karasev on April 20, 2006, 11:22 am
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On a second thought, any way to integrate would be considered, not just an
easy one :))

Posted by Nick Karasev on April 20, 2006, 11:40 am
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Did some search through the early posts that relate to SharePoint services.
Seems that the functionality I've been talking about can be implemented
through Search Policy (Primary/Secondary).

The question then becomes: what WDS expects to receive back? Should it be
HTML, XML, or some other document?

Thanks!

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