Searching Resource (resx) files

markarend — Sat, 26 Jan 2008 02:21:00 GMT

Often, a request comes to customize some of the text that SharePoint displays. And often, that text is stored in one of SharePoint's resource files, so it's just a matter of finding the right one. But I've noticed that Windows explorer doesn't do a very good job of searching inside *.resx files. In fact it behaves as though it just skips these files. Of course, you can open the resx files in Visual Studio to search them, but they appear in many different directories, so it can be a bit of a headache just to get them all opened.

After needing to do this for about the 30th time, I decided to make searchable copies of SharePoint's resx files... easy enough, just save them all as xml. For your convenience, here they are in one zip file.

Download: http://code.msdn.microsoft.com/SearchMossResources

Searching with Property Filters

markarend — Tue, 10 Oct 2006 22:09:00 GMT

SharePoint can search for content using the values in site columns, as well as performing free text searches. The official help page that describes this is at http://msdn2.microsoft.com/en-us/library/ms476494.aspx. This posting gives some more examples of ways in which this is useful.

The names of the property filters you can use are the names of the columns on your document library or content type. One of the most useful property filters is ContentType, because with this you can search for specific types of documents; many values can be specified. There are a hierarchy of content types available, and specifying one will include all of its descendants. Here is a partial tree of the most pertinent values you can use for ContentType:

Page

Article Page

Welcome Page

Item

Document

Picture

Report

Custom document types

Announcement

Contact

Event

Issue

Link

Task

Folder

Discussion

Examples; Unions and Intersections

Search syntax does not provide Boolean operators AND & OR. But very similar functionality can be gained with the right combinations of properties. When one property is specified several times, all of the conditions are combined using OR. When different properties are specified, all of the conditions are combined using AND.

ContentType:"Announcement" ContentType:"Event"

Every list item that’s an Announcement OR an Event

ContentType:"Document"

All documents

ContentType:"Document" Author:"Mark Arend" Status:"Not Started" Status:"Draft"

All Documents created by Mark Arend that have a status of Not Started OR Draft

ContentType:"Article Page" -Status:"Published"

All Article Pages that are NOT Published. note the dash character to negate a property filter.

Other Filters

Property filters provide you with a way to narrow the focus of the keyword search based on the following:

Managed properties <property name>:<value>
Scopes <scope name>:<value>
Collapsed results <collapsed results type>:<value>

There is no maximum length for keywords property filters, however, the full length of the keyword query should be less than 1024 characters.

Keyword syntax supports querying for any properties of a string or numeric type from the full set of managed properties.

Name	Description	Examples
site	The URL property. Note: If a URL folder name contains a space, it must be enclosed in double quotation marks ("…"). Do not end a URL folder name with a trailing slash ("/").	site:http://employeesstg.amr.
scope	Compound scope. Specify the friendly name of scope.	scope:"Marketing Content"
duplicate	Collapsing filter. Requests duplicate items for specified URL.	duplicate:http://<displayUrl>

If there are one or more spaces in the display name of the column you want to filter by, then you must use the internal name of the column instead. Usually, this means replacing all spaces in the name with _x0020_. For example, to filter on Issue Status, use Issue_x0020_Status. Sometimes the space is just removed; for example, to filter on Contact Type, use ContactType. In some cases neither rule applies and the internal name is different; use a tool such as an object model browser such as SharePoint Inspector (http://www.codeplex.com/spi) to find the internal name (called the Static Name) that you need to use. Here are a few common ones:

Display Name	Static (internal) Name
Approval Status	ModerationStatus
Approver Comments	ModerationComments
Article Date	ArticleStartDate
Checked Out To	CheckoutUser
Collect Feedback	CollectF
Collect Signatures	CollectS
Contact E-Mail Address	PublishingContactEmail
Contact Name	PublishingContactName
Contact Picture	PublishingContactPicture
Content Type	ContentType
Created	Created_x0020_Date
Encoded Absolute URL	EncodedAbsUrl
Image Caption	PublishingImageCaption
Modified	Last_x0020_Modified
Page Content	PublishingPageContent
Page Image	PublishingPageImage
Page Layout	PublishingPageLayout
Path	FileDirRef
Rollup Image	PublishingRollupImage
Scheduling End Date	PublishingEndDate
Scheduling Start Date	PublishingStartDate
Server Relative URL	ServerUrl
Target Audiences	Audience
URL Path	FileRef

Mark Arend : Customization

Searching Resource (resx) files

Searching with Property Filters

Examples; Unions and Intersections

Other Filters