Adding Search Support For A New Object; Extending Search Preferences - Red Hat DIRECTORY SERVER 7.1 - GATEWAY CUSTOMIZATION Manual

Adding Search Support for a New Object

"dsgw-people"
subtree
"full name"
"last name"
"phone number"
"e-mail address"
"user id"
"title"
"pager number"
""
As a result of adding this syntax to
• A pager number selection will appear in the drop-down menu on the Advanced
Search form.
• The gateway will search the
the scope of the search.
• The gateway will look for values that contain, end with, start with, or are identical to
the search string entered by the user. It will not look for values that sound like the
search string entered by the user.
Adding Search Support for a New Object
There are two ways to add search support for a new object:
• Update entries in
definitions of search attributes for the new object. Use this method to add search
support for an object that is a child of another object.
• Create new entries in
object class. This method requires specifying preferences for searching object class
attributes and defining a filter to use in expressing search results.

Extending Search Preferences

The syntax in the following example shows the introduction of a new object,
examplePerson
person
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cn
sn
"uid"
title
""
dsgwsearchprefs.conf
dsgwsearchprefs.conf
, and a new attribute,
object class.
111111
"telephoneNumber"
"mail"
111111 "" ""
pagerTelephoneNumber
dsgwsearchprefs.conf
pagerTelephoneNumber
and
dsgwfilter.conf
and
, to the search preferences for the
dateOfBirth
"" ""
111111 "" ""
111011 ""
111111 "" ""
111111 "" ""
111011
:
attribute of all entries within
with
for a new
dsgwfilter.conf
""