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Outlook Custom Properties in Windows Desktop Search 3.0 (or later) Alex Duggleby 07-10-2006
Posted by Alex Duggleby on July 10, 2006, 7:24 am
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Hi,

Consider an application that adds a number of Custom (User) Properties to
mails in Outlook (for example MyProperty1).

Is there a way (or will there be a way in the future) to use Windows Desktop
Search to search by these properties? Is there a way to let WDS index these
properties aswell? As an example I would like to find all Mails that have the
MyProperty1 property set, and have the MyProperty1 Value = 'foo*'.

Is that possible?

Thanks in advance,
Alex

Posted by Jeff R. on July 31, 2006, 6:34 pm
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Excellent question. I dunno.

The issue is that the IFilter responsible for parsing email has been written
to use Outlook's field list. Now if the fields have been extended by a
third party program, there is no way for the IFilter to know the new fields
exist, thus they are not parsed.
If you or the third party software company were to put out an Ifilter for
the modified email, then there is a good chance that WDS would add those
fields to the index. That is assuming there is a way to map those fields to
the index schema...

hth,

Jeff

> Hi,
>
> Consider an application that adds a number of Custom (User) Properties to
> mails in Outlook (for example MyProperty1).
>
> Is there a way (or will there be a way in the future) to use Windows
> Desktop
> Search to search by these properties? Is there a way to let WDS index
> these
> properties aswell? As an example I would like to find all Mails that have
> the
> MyProperty1 property set, and have the MyProperty1 Value = 'foo*'.
>
> Is that possible?
>
> Thanks in advance,
> Alex



Posted by Alex Duggleby on August 1, 2006, 2:58 am
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Hi Jeff,

thanks! So I suppose the Standard Outlook IFilter isn't configurable?
Because basically we would be rewriting the Filter just to include a few more
Attributes to the index.

And if I remember right, it is not recommended to write IFilter using the
.netFX, instead we should use unmanaged components?

Or does anyone know of a third-party IFilter that IS configurable?

Regards,
Alex

"Jeff R." wrote:

> Excellent question. I dunno.
>
> The issue is that the IFilter responsible for parsing email has been written
> to use Outlook's field list. Now if the fields have been extended by a
> third party program, there is no way for the IFilter to know the new fields
> exist, thus they are not parsed.
> If you or the third party software company were to put out an Ifilter for
> the modified email, then there is a good chance that WDS would add those
> fields to the index. That is assuming there is a way to map those fields to
> the index schema...
>
> hth,
>
> Jeff
>
> > Hi,
> >
> > Consider an application that adds a number of Custom (User) Properties to
> > mails in Outlook (for example MyProperty1).
> >
> > Is there a way (or will there be a way in the future) to use Windows
> > Desktop
> > Search to search by these properties? Is there a way to let WDS index
> > these
> > properties aswell? As an example I would like to find all Mails that have
> > the
> > MyProperty1 property set, and have the MyProperty1 Value = 'foo*'.
> >
> > Is that possible?
> >
> > Thanks in advance,
> > Alex
>
>
>

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