This performs a normal search based on the query/queries provided.
Parameters:
profile
- Required. Specifies which profile you're
working with.query
- Required. The Metamorph query to search for.
The following parameters can be provided to further refine the search:
urlQuery
- Used for URL Prefix queries. Corresponds
to the default search interface's uq
query-string variable
(here).depthQuery
- the maximum depth that would be allowed.
Supplying a value of 3
would only return pages that are no more
than 3 clicks away from a Base URL. Corresponds to the default
interface's dq
variable.categoryName
- name of a category to limit results
to. Corresponds to the default interface's category
variable.
Added in version 20.1.categoryQuery
- numeric index for a category to limit results
to. 1 is the first category, etc. Corresponds to the default
interface's cq
variable.
Deprecated; use categoryName
instead.requireAllCategories
- Set to Y to require each result
to match all categories specified, instead of any of them.proximity
- specifies a required proximity for the words
in the query. Corresponds to the default
interface's prox
variable. Possible values are:
page
- words must occur on the same page (default)paragraph
- words must occur in the same paragraphsentence
- words must occur in the same sentence.line
- words must occur on the same line.
authUser
- Username to use for Results Authorization, when using
the Basic/NTLM/file - prompt via form
authorization method.authPass
- Password to use for Results Authorization, when using
the Basic/NTLM/file - prompt via form
authorization method.
search
function may also use the rankKnobs structure (section
4.22.8, here).
Additional Fields
The search
function may also take a number of Additional Field
parameters, as described in the Searching Additional Fields
section (here).
Response
The SOAP output of the function is described in the XML Elements in Search Results section (4.13.3, here).