Search XML API + Custom Categories

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I am attempting to perform a search using the Livelink Search XML API and experiencing some trouble. I would be grateful for any help.



When constructing the query using the Advanced search page things work well.

The Category SOMEObjectData has a number of attributes – the one that I am interested in is the ‘Status’. I want to be able to reproduce this query using the Search XML API and wondered if you could help ? I imagined that it would be something like:


func=search&lookfor1=complexquery&where1=(Attr_46062_9 : "Authorised" | "Assessment&quot

Although this “works” (not malformed) it brings back more records than I expect !

Any help greatly appreciated.

 

[davidt50]

The query get malformed, it is all in the brackets I believe the query you are intending is the following:

func=search&lookfor1=complexquery&where1=(Attr_46062_9 : ("Authorised" | "Assessment&quot)

The query you posted would expand out to only the word "Authorised" being part of the region definition. The word "Assessment" would then be seen as a simply another term.