Crawl Works Fine. All Sites Scope shows 0

Question

Hello,
  We have recently built a 2010 SharePoint server.  We have several sites containing shared documents.  A Search Service Application has been created and a Content Source of all sites on the Local SharePoint server is being used.  When
a Full Crawl is performed, it is successful and the URL log shows all of the shared documents.  When I try to use the search.asmx API by sending an SQL style select to it, I either just get the Person entries or nothing if I specify the 'All Sites' scope.
 After reading other posts, I have checked for errors in my logs, and ensured proper user permissions.  Any ideas?
Thanks,
Warren

Answer 1

Hi,
According to your post, my understanding is that you could not get the result using search.asmx web service.
What SQL syntax were you use? For example, we can get the doc file in the
Lib1 libray as below.
<QueryText language="en-US" type="STRING">site:”http://sps/Lib1 doc”</QueryText>
I did a simple code demo using Windows Form Application follow
the MSDN article, it works like a charm, you can have a look at it.
private void queryButton_Click(object sender, EventArgs e)
try
// Instantiate the Web service.
QueryWebServiceProxy.QueryService queryService = new QueryWebServiceProxy.QueryService();
// Use the credentials of the user running the client application.
queryService.Credentials = System.Net.CredentialCache.DefaultCredentials;
//Execute the QueryEx method, returning the results to a DataSet
System.Data.DataSet queryResults = queryService.QueryEx(GetXMLString());
// Set the DataGridView data source to the first table in the DataSet oject, which contains the relevant results.
resultsGrid.DataSource = queryResults.Tables[0];
catch (Exception ex)
resultsLabel.Text = ex.ToString();
private string GetXMLString()
The proceeding six lines of code is actually one line of code.
It is separated into four lines here for readability.
You will need to remove the line breaks when you copy the code to your project.
StringBuilder xmlString = new StringBuilder(@"<QueryPacket xmlns='urn:Microsoft.Search.Query' Revision='1000'>
<Query domain='QDomain'>
<SupportedFormats>
<Format>urn:Microsoft.Search.Response.Document.Document</Format>
</SupportedFormats>
<Context>
<QueryText language='en-US' type='STRING'>");
xmlString.Append(queryTextBox.Text);
xmlString.Append("</QueryText></Context></Query></QueryPacket>");
return xmlString.ToString();
More reference:
http://www.dotnetmafia.com/blogs/dotnettipoftheday/archive/2008/07/17/how-to-query-search-using-the-web-service.aspx
http://sharepoint.stackexchange.com/questions/32709/how-to-use-the-search-asmx-service-to-search-a-particular-library
Thanks,
Jason
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