Writing Internet Data Administration Scripts

Note

Indexing Service is no longer supported as of Windows XP and is unavailable for use as of Windows 8. Instead, use Windows Search for client side search and Microsoft Search Server Express for server side search.

 

Administrative requests are very similar to queries, except that the parameters are stored in an Internet Data Administration (.ida) file instead of an Internet Data Query (.idq) file. You can write your own IDA scripts with the following parameters:

Parameter	Description	Optional
CiCatalog	Specifies location of catalog. If not found, default specified in registry is used.	Yes
CiTemplate	Specifies template to use if administration operation is successful. Standard .idq error semantics apply.	No
CiLocale	Defines the locale used to issue the query. Indexing Service supports standard HTML locale encoding.	Yes

 

You can also add user-defined variables in the same manner as .idq files.

Some administrative operations can change the state of the index. Administrative operations are restricted based on an access control list (ACL).

Note

Do not put .ida files on a virtual root pointing to a remote Uniform Naming Convention (UNC) share.