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I have built a custom search connector to crawl and index external content types. That works quite well. I find the index entities in the search center as well through using the API of SearchServiceApplicationProxy.

But now I want to know, what is the easiest way to narrow the result of a KeywordQuery to just get results from an certain Entity-Type (e.g just the "Products" of the external system, not the "Customers"). That means I want to query by the Name and Namespace of the Entity (in conjunction with an some other search terms).

Do I have to create a managed property myself based on some crawled property? Or is there a way to fill for example the "ContentType" or "ContentClass" property from the BCS-connector? Thank you in advance.

Regards

Joachim

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For this you will need to make a custom property and then create a scope on that property, looking for a specific value.

I have had a play on a similar set up just now and I can't find a way to do it another way.

It's a small workaround but it works.

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I did it exactly that way now. By using a DefaultValue in the .bdcm-Model it is completely declerative. I mapped the new CrawledProperty now to the ManagedProperty "contentclass". This mapping is done via PS-Cmdlet in our setup-script. I'dont think it is required to build a scope. I use just a HiddenConstraint in my KeywordQuery. Thank you very much. – Joachim Rosskopf Oct 22 '12 at 11:39
The scope just creates a copy of the data and puts less stress on the server, that is why I suggested it. – Hugh Wood Oct 22 '12 at 12:28

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