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Unambiguous Search String construction

Looking for URL construction guidance for an advanced searcher - i.e.

I know I can save a custom search as a personal view - but, checking properties of the view only shows the name of the view gets appended to the end of "AdvSearch"

I'm looking for advice - if it's possible to construct a URL that leverages advanced search to return an object by specific known value ... i.e. DN of the target object, avoiding ambiguous name resolution provided through quick search.

myARShost/mySite/GlobalSearch.aspx?TaskId=AdvSearch ... <my precise search term>

instead of

myARShost/mySite/GlobalSearch.aspx?TaskId=QuickSearch&TM=0.865841862683111&Anr=<my ambiguous search>

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  • They are stored in a table in the Configuration Database - one for which there is currently no supported method for modification other than through the Web UI itself.

  • I just wanted to see them ... I could search for them myself - there I guess, but I went another route to expose what is getting called. 

    And it's not pretty, or compact enough to build a URL around at my skill level   I cleared a old DS.log file, enabled debug on a test system and called an advanced search.  the resulting query is visible in the log viewer tool and it pretty much looks like an adsi query instead of the web query like the ambiguous search returns to the URL bar.  So yeah - for me now, that's a dead end.