How to display custom properties in the browser search

The Enterprise Vault browser search application uses the custom filter and properties API to access custom properties defined in the Custom Properties.xml file.

This section shows how the example presentation section entries would be displayed in the US English version of this application.

Figure: Example presentation properties displayed in the browser search page shows the Enterprise Vault browser search with the example custom properties and content categories displayed.

Figure: Example presentation properties displayed in the browser search page

The Content Category dropdown box shows the content categories available to be used in searches. These were defined using the <AVAILABLECATEGORIES> element. You can change the content categories listed in the dropdown box, but you cannot change or hide the label, Content Category.

Selecting a content category in the box and clicking Search will return all items that were archived with the selected content category.

The Case Properties and Client Properties sections display each group of custom properties (FIELDGROUP) associated with the selected content category. Entering a value for a custom property and clicking Search will search the custom property index entry of archived items.

To see the additional property details in the search results, Details must be set to Full.

If the user selects a different content category, the custom properties available will change.

As RETRIEVE="Y" was set in the definition of the Litigation content category, and Details was set to Full on the Search page, custom properties in search result items will be displayed at the end of the list of normal message attributes.

Figure: Custom properties displayed in search results

Note the following on displaying custom properties in browser search:

You must include the LOCALE attribute.
If custom properties are to be used in the Enterprise Vault browser search, Internet Explorer security settings must allow cookies for the Enterprise Vault server site.
When changes are made to the custom property configuration, you need to restart the Enterprise Vault Application Pool in IIS Manager.
If the contents of the Custom Properties.xml file is changed, searches may return different results. For example, if an item is indexed using one content category and the properties included in the content category are changed, the custom properties returned by subsequent searches will be different. To ensure you can still search on the original properties, leave the original content category and create a new one.