Microsoft KB Archive/311767

= PRB: Deep Traversal Search Does Not Return All Items =

Article ID: 311767

Article Last Modified on 2/22/2007

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APPLIES TO


 * Microsoft SharePoint Portal Server 2001

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This article was previously published under Q311767



SYMPTOMS
When you perform a deep traversal search on a documents folder, only the published documents are returned. If you change the scope to perform a shallow traversal search and then perform the same query, you may see all of the documents in the folder.



CAUSE
A deep traversal search returns items that are indexed (because the query path is the search engine), and the index contains only published documents.



STATUS
This behavior is by design.



MORE INFORMATION
The query path for shallow traversal queries may be the SharePoint Portal Server document store, which would return a larger set of documents. Note that it is possible for a shallow traversal search and a deep traversal search to return the same results if the search is performed with a full-text predicate such as CONTAINS or FREETEXT.

For additional information about the query path for a shallow traversal search, in the &quot;Microsoft SharePoint Portal Server SDK&quot; Help file, click Microsoft SharePoint Portal Server SDK, click Scenarios, click Searching SharePoint Portal Server, and then click Search Query Path. You can also search in the SDK for &quot;query path&quot;, and then select the Search Query Path title.

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