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Shankar's Musings 
I’ve created a connection to a web service…
Service description location: http://…._vti_bin/search.asmx?WSDL
Service Name: QueryServiceSoap
Address: same as location
Operation: Query
PARAMETERS
Name: queryXml
Value: urn:Microsoft.Search.Response.Document.Document 1400truetrue truetruetruetruetrue
I am not able to “Show Data” However, I am able to see the data using SharePoint Seach Service Tool. Any help/suggestions/ideas will be appreciated. Thank You!!
Version: SharePoint Designer 2007
Hi.. I am having the same problem.. did you solve this problem Cis? i have the following issue…
I am struggling in displaying the “showdata” after passing the queryex to the search webservice in sharepoint designer .I am getting the following error
” The server returned a non-specific error when trying to get data from the data source. check the format and content of your query and try again.if the problem persists,contact the server administrator”
i searched many threds,could not find any solution. please respond MVP’s and geeks.
i can retrieve the results using the tool
http://www.mosssearch.com/searchwebservice.html
provided by Shankar’s musings article
here is my queryEx:
urn:Microsoft.Search.Response.Document:Document select preferredname,Title, Path, Description, Write, Rank,Size from scope() where “scope” = ‘people’ order by preferredname ASC1100truetruetruetruetruetruetrue
and i also can see the result query by using this code in visual studio webreference program.. this is the program i used for debugging:
class Program
{
static void Main(string[] args)
{
sharepointdev.QueryService qs = new ConsoleApplication2.sharepointdev.QueryService();
qs.PreAuthenticate = false;
qs.Credentials = System.Net.CredentialCache.DefaultCredentials;
DataSet ds = new DataSet();
//string ds;
ds = qs.QueryEx(@” urn:Microsoft.Search.Response.Document:Document select preferredname,Title, Path, Description, Write, Rank,Size from scope() where “”scope”” = ‘people’ order by preferredname ASC11000truetruetruetruetruetruetrue”);
}
}
I have also checked the query by directly passing it to queryex method in query service.
http://sharepointdev/_vti_bin/search.asmx?op=QueryEx
and I do get the result set.
all i need is to get the result set once i clik on show data in sharepoint designer. have followed this article and can not see the result after repated trails in every possible way.
seems like problem is with the sharepoint designer. I have even tried with the sharepoint support link:
http://support.microsoft.com/kb/923173
but has no luck
any suggestions or help is much much appreciated….
can somebody please help me. naresh
Hello,
Would you be able to assist me in getting my query to work for the Employee Directory Web part? I’ve tried the legacy SharePoint Search Query tool and the newer SharePoint search service tool with the same results. I keep getting the “query is malformed” error message.
Using the newer tool, I see my scopes as configured on SharePoint – and I don’t think I should be using the “people” scope. Our profile import is under another SSP if that helps.
Thanks,
Brian
Hi Shankar
I would like to thank you for all of the time and effort you have put into your knowledge. Your experience and understanding is easily apparent in your posts, which have assisted me greatly in my work.
Thanking you
Gregory