Adding Search Support For A New Object; Extending Search Preferences - Netscape DIRECTORY SERVER 6.2 - 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
within 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
new 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 boldfaced syntax in the following example shows the introduction of a new
object,
preferences for the
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cn
sn
"uid"
title
dsgwsearchprefs.conf
dsgwsearchprefs.conf
, and a new attribute,
examplePerson
object class.
person
111111
"telephoneNumber"
"mail"
111111
111111 "" ""
pagerTelephoneNumber
dsgwsearchprefs.conf
pagerTelephoneNumber
and
dateOfBirth
"" ""
111111 "" ""
111011 "" ""
111111 "" ""
"" ""
111011
:
attribute of all entries
with
dsgwfilter.conf
and
desgwfilter.conf
, to the search
""
for a