[This is preliminary documentation and is subject to change.]

public string Search(
	ConnectionId connectionId,
	SessionId sessionId,
	string criteria,
	FulltextSearchCriteriaOptions criteriaOption,
	FulltextSearchSortOrder sorting,
	int[] containerList,
	FulltextSearchContainerListTypes listType,
	bool useExtendSearchResult,
	string extendedSearchResultClassName,
	bool noMark,
	int maxReturnSize,
	string[] extendedSearchResultXMLFields,
	int pageNumber,
	int pageSize,
	out int pageCount,
	out int recordCount
)

Public Function Search ( 
	connectionId As ConnectionId,
	sessionId As SessionId,
	criteria As String,
	criteriaOption As FulltextSearchCriteriaOptions,
	sorting As FulltextSearchSortOrder,
	containerList As Integer(),
	listType As FulltextSearchContainerListTypes,
	useExtendSearchResult As Boolean,
	extendedSearchResultClassName As String,
	noMark As Boolean,
	maxReturnSize As Integer,
	extendedSearchResultXMLFields As String(),
	pageNumber As Integer,
	pageSize As Integer,
	<OutAttribute> ByRef pageCount As Integer,
	<OutAttribute> ByRef recordCount As Integer
) As String

Parameters

connectionId

Type: ContentStudioConnectionId
A value that identifies the web site

sessionId

Type: ContentStudio.SecuritySessionId
A value that identifies the user's session. This value usually originates from a call to OpenSession(ConnectionId).

criteria

Type: SystemString
The phrase used as full text input. This parameter cannot exceed MAX_CRITERIA_SIZE characters in length.

criteriaOption

Type: ContentStudio.Document.FulltextFulltextSearchCriteriaOptions
Defines how Content Studio should treat the passed in search criteria.

sorting

Type: ContentStudio.Document.FulltextFulltextSearchSortOrder
Defines how Content Studio should sort the returned data.

containerList

Type: SystemInt32
A list of id:s of container to search in.

listType

Type: ContentStudio.Document.FulltextFulltextSearchContainerListTypes
Defines the type of container that indicated by the containerList parameter. If this parameter is Unit and the containerList is an empty array, all units are searched. If this parameter is Category and the containerList is empty an error occurs.

useExtendSearchResult

Type: SystemBoolean
Set to true to invoke extended search result. Setting this parameter to true while the extended search result functionality is missing from the system will generate an error.

extendedSearchResultClassName

Type: SystemString
A defined CSS class name to use this for highlighted search words. (<span class='ClassName'>). This class name is not HTML encoded by this procedure and blank or missing will mark highlighted search words as being bold (<b>). If NoMark is false and this parameter is null or empty no text highlighting is made. This parameter is ignored if the extended search result functionality is missing from the system.

noMark

Type: SystemBoolean
Set to true to avoid marking search words (ExtendedSearchResultClassName is ignored). This parameter is ignored if the extended search result functionality is missing from the system.

maxReturnSize

Type: SystemInt32
Set to a numeric value greater than 10 to limit the size of the returned result. Values below 10 or non-numeric values defaults to 200 characters. This parameter is ignored if the extended search result functionality is missing from the system.

extendedSearchResultXMLFields

Type: SystemString
An array of xml field names that will be combined into the extended search result content excerpt.

pageNumber

Type: SystemInt32
The page number to read. A default value of 1 will be used if a value lower than 1 is supplied.

pageSize

Type: SystemInt32
The size of the pages to read. A default value of 10 will be used if a value lower than 1 is supplied.

pageCount

Type: SystemInt32
When the method returns the total pages of data found. This parameter is passed uninitialized.

recordCount

Type: SystemInt32
When the method returns contains the total entries found. This parameter is passed uninitialized.

Return Value

<root>
  <status>0</status>
  <statustext>Success</statustext>
  <pageno>1</pageno>
  <pagesize>10</pagesize>
  <pagecount>2</pagecount>
  <recordcount>17</recordcount>
  <searchresult>
    <row rowid="R1" 
         documentid="10023" 
         documentname="Mydocument" 
         createddate="2006-10-12T00:00" 
         modifieddate="2006-10-12T00:00" 
         rank="98" logicalpath="TheUnit/Thecategory/Mydocument" 
         categoryid="149" 
         categoryname="Thecategory" 
         modulename="xmldocument" 
         introduction="Text of the document" />
    <!-- more rows can follow -->
  </searchresult>
</root>

Reference