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ExternalSecurityProvider Element (Site)

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Represents an interface that returns custom information about the security used in Windows SharePoint Services for indexing by a search crawler on a portal.

<ExternalSecurityProvider
  ID = "Text"
  Type = "Text">
</ExternalSecurityProvider>

Attributes

Attribute

Description

ID

Required Text. Specifies the GUID of the component.

Type

Optional Text. If Type=”View” is specified, the counter returns a number that increases each time a view is created for the list. This counter can be used, for example, to give unique names to elements on a page depending on the view.

Child Elements

None

Parent Elements

Components

Occurrences

Minimum: 0

Maximum: 1

Remarks

The ExternalSecurityProvider element corresponds to the Microsoft.SharePoint.IExternalSecurityWeb interface.

See Components Element (Site) for an example that uses the ExternalSecurityProvider element.