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ExternalSecurityProvider element (Site)

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Applies to: SharePoint 2016 | SharePoint Foundation 2013 | SharePoint Online | SharePoint Server 2013

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

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

Elements and attributes

The following sections describe attributes, child elements, and parent elements.

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

Occurrences

  • Minimum: 0
  • Maximum: 1

Remarks

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

For an example that uses the ExternalSecurityProvider element, see Components element (Site).