Corey Roth [MVP]

In Enterprise Search, I often find it useful to create a scope around a specific list template.  This gives users added flexibility in searching only specific lists of documents, list items, pages or whatever.  I think there are a few ways to do this, but one way I have found to do this is by using the List Template Id.  Say you have a simple list template like the following.

To create a scope to only return items that are in this type of list, we use the contentclass managed property.  For built-in list types, you can create a rule in your scope, specifying a property query with a contentclass value of STS_List_Tasks or STS_List_Links for example.  This post has a list of the various built-in values you can use for out-of-the-box list template types.  Configuring a scope for a custom list template type is also pretty easy assuming you know the syntax.  You simply append the type id to STS_ListItem_.  For example, in the case of my list template above, my contentclass would be.

STS_ListItem_10003

Just go to your SSP –> Search Administration –> Scopes.  Create a new scope and a new rule and then set the Scope Rule Type to Property Query.  Pick contentclass from the box and enter a value like the one above.  Also be sure and select the Require behavior to require items to have that content class.  Here is what it would look like.

EDIT: I need to update the image to show ContentClass instead of Author.

It’s pretty simple.  I am not sure how I figured out how to do this, but it does work.  It might be buried in the SDK somewhere.  I think you could also specify built-in lists using their list template id’s as well.

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