Indexing Text-Type and Value-Type Properties

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Indexing Service indexes all text-type properties using their associated, unformatted text. The unformatted text undergoes word breaking and noise-word removal before eventually being merged into the master index of the catalog. Text-type properties are entered as words in the index along with their name, so that queries for text selected by property name are possible.

Indexing Service indexes value-type properties according to their data type identifiers.

  • Properties with a textual data type are indexed identically to text-type properties. Textual data type identifiers are: VT_LPSTR, VT_LPWSTR, VT_BSTR, and combinations of these made by a logical OR operation with VT_VECTOR.
  • Properties with a non-textual data type are indexed similarly to text-type properties using the appropriate data type and the data value of the property. Non-textual data type identifiers include: VT_I4, VT_I8, VT_R8, VT_DATE, and others.