WDS returns nothing when searching with CUSTOM PROPERTIES

Question

Hi everyone,

I have added some custom properties (metadata) to my "myFile.doc" file. Let say that my custom properties are CustomPropName, CustomPropRole and CustomPropLevel and the corresponding values are name1, role1 and level1.

I created the following propdesc file to register the custom properties: (here we can just see the code for CustomPropRole property)

The propdesc file is:

<schema xmlns:xsi="http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema-instance"
        xmlns="http://schemas.microsoft.com/windows/2006/propertydescription"
        schemaVersion="1.0" >
    <propertyDescriptionList publisher="Microsoft" product="Windows">
        <propertyDescription name="CustomPropRole" formatID="{4c7390d2-119e-4912-a8c4-49621119272d}" propID="10">
            <description>Role description.</description>
            <searchInfo inInvertedIndex="true" isColumn="true" columnIndexType="OnDisk"/>           
        <typeInfo type="String" multipleValues="false" isViewable="true" isQueryable="true" isInnate="true" />
            <labelInfo label="Role Label"/>
        </propertyDescription>       
    </propertyDescriptionList>
</schema>

But When I search using these custom properties , the WDS does not find the "myFile.doc". the syntax in the search is: CustomPropRole:role1 (this query should just return one file which is "myFile.doc").

Note:

1- Searching using name, size, author...does return the correct file. (these are the default properties for the doc files, ex: "name:myFile").

2- Searching using the custom properties in free text does return the correct file (ex: "role1", but it is not what I am looking for...).

I am not sure if I am missing something here...

Thank you for your help.

 

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Juba