Hi, Peter. There are two web service APIs that are helpful for searching -- Search25.PerformSearch (docs.rws.com/.../search-2-5-performsearch) and PublicationOutput25.Find (https://docs.rws.com/992527/69978/tridion-docs-15/publicationoutput-2-5-find). The key with both of these APIs is determining the appropriate search filters to restrict the number of hits returned to a reasoanble number that won't affect network and application performance. This can mean searching by various metadata fields -- perhaps chunking by created or modified dates, or using specific metadata fields unique to your environment to reduce the returned data set. The APIs are available for both .NET WCF applications, and also in the IshRemote Powershel library. (See https://github.com/RWS/ISHRemote/tree/master.) I can't speak to the exact syntax for making the calls with IshRemote, as I generally use the APIs from a WCF application, and don't use Powershell much. Perhaps Dave or someone else will elaborate on the PowerShell functionality. I can provide more details about the API calls and filtering suggestions  if needed.

Hi Peter,

Mark explained the API part. Key is that "Document Object" is about content objects (so OASIS DITA Maps, Topics, Library Topics, Images and Other) while "Publication Output" is about publication version objects. There is only a Full Text Index for the "Document Object" part, which you can access over the "Search" API. For publication versions, we only have relational database querying, in the API we refer to the "Find" keyword for that.

In your scenario, I assume you are looking for an xml construct in the "Document Object" part - so in the xml files.

• If your Publication Manager, has the "Current publication" scope set. Than it is using API call https://docs.rws.com/992527/186243/tridion-docs-15/search-2-5-performsearchinpublication 
• If your Publication Manager, has the "Entire Repository" scope set. Than it is using API call https://docs.rws.com/992527/70179/tridion-docs-15/search-2-5-performsearch 
  • ISHRemote Search-IShDocumentObj cmdlet, only implemented the "Repository" wide querying. Most of it is explained  on https://github.com/RWS/ISHRemote/blob/d3cd88d6394601e6751e1234f18daa4d869437e0/Doc/ReleaseNotes-ISHRemote-0.13.md
• If your Publication Manager, has the "Entire Repository for publications" scope set. Than it is using API call https://docs.rws.com/992527/69978/tridion-docs-15/publicationoutput-2-5-find which is a relational SQL query.
  • For completeness ISHRemote offers this as Find-IShPublicationOutput

Best wishes,
Dave

Hi Mark,

Thanks for an exhaustive and informative answer - much appreciated!

BR

Peter

Thanks a lot Dave!

I will digest this information and try it out.

Best Regards

Peter