Dsgwfilter.conf; Changing Search Scope - Red Hat DIRECTORY SERVER 7.1 - GATEWAY CUSTOMIZATION Manual

Changing Search Scope

• The label of the search attribute as it is displayed in the Find drop-down list on the
Search form .
• The object class attribute to search on.
• Match types to use in search results.
NOTE

dsgwfilter.conf

The
dsgwfilter.conf
dsgwsearchprefs.conf
• Pattern for which to search.
• Delimiters for the search pattern.
• LDAP filter for generating search results.
• Text to use in describing search results for the pattern.
• Scope of the search (not required).
The name of the search filter entry for a search object is identified in
dsgwsearchprefs.conf
Changing Search Scope
Search object entries in
searches for the corresponding object class. The default scope for gateway search objects
(subtree) specifies the
The scope of a search object can be changed by editing the corresponding line in
dsgwsearchprefs.conf
Table 6-1
Search Scope
base
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Define new search preferences in
new object class with searchable attributes is added to the gateway.
file contains an entry for each search object defined in
. Each entry defines the following:
.
dsgwsearchprefs.conf
and all its children.
baseurl
. Valid search scopes are shown in Table 6-1.
Valid Search Scopes
Tells the Gateway to...
Search the Directory Server for the entry specified in the baseurl
parameter but not to search in children of the entry.
dsgwsearchprefs.conf
define the search scope used in
whenever a