Property Index Search

Use this type of search for retrieving plant documents in the Property Index.  The parameters listed below will be used by both DAO Web Services and DAO Page Requests.  For Web Services, the Parameters will be submitted as part of the function call and will need to be passed in the sequence shown in this Parameters table.  Note that in the Visual Studio development environment the function call arguments will show in a pop-up help window as the programmer types in the software code.  For a Page Request, the Parameter's name will be part of the submitted query followed by an equal sign and the desired value (see the example later in this section).

Parameters

Parameter

Value(s)

CompanyCode

Company Code (see Company Code Parameter for details).  For testing purposes on the TitleSCAN Web test site use "ATC".

CountyCode

County Code (for testing purposes on TitleSCAN Web test site use “L” for Livingston County)

SearchType

0 = Subdivision Search
1 = Arb Search
2 = Section/Township/Range Search
3 = Assignment and Release Search
4 = Document Number Search
5 = Document Number Plus Assignment and Release Search
6 = Grantee/Grantor search

FromDate

mm/dd/yyyy (beginning date).  This is an optional parameter and if it is not specified, the search will default to a search of the entire plant (all dates).

ToDate

mm/dd/yyyy (ending date).  This is an optional parameter and if it is not specified, the search will default to a search of the entire plant (all dates).

ToDocTypeCode

Document Type Code.  Search back until first occurrence of this code.

DocTypeCode1

Document Type Code.  Include only documents of this type.

DocTypeCode2

Document Type Code.  Include only documents of this type.

DocTypeCode3

Document Type Code.  Include only documents of this type.

DocTypeCode4

Document Type Code.  Include only documents of this type.

Grantor

Grantor Name or partial name. Include only documents with this grantor name or partial name.

GranteeCode

Grantee Code.  Include only documents with this grantee code.

Grantee

Grantee Name or partial name.  Include only documents with this grantee name or partial name.

SortOrder

'N' for No Sort.  '1' for Sort by First Number Field.  '2' for Sort by Second Number Field.  '3' for Sort by Date and First Number Field.  '4'  for Sort by Date and Second Number Field.

ReverseOrder

'N' for ascending order.  'Y' for reverse (descending) order.

Legal

Legal or document number to search.  Value depends upon the SearchType.  Values can be:
Subdivision number
Arb number
Section / township / range
Document number
Grantor or Grantee Name formatted according to GI search rules

The following parameters are only used if the search type is “Subdivision”.

FromBlock

Starting block.  Must be numeric if using ToBlock.

ToBlock

Ending block number.

FromLot

Starting lot.  Must be numeric if using ToLot.

ToLot

Ending lot number.

FromUnit

Starting unit.  Must be numeric if using ToUnit.

ToUnit

Ending unit number.

The following parameter is only used if the search type is “Grantee/Grantor” and is ignored otherwise.

GranteeGrantorFlag

'1' for both grantor and grantee.  '2' for grantor only.  '3' for grantee only.

PercentMatch

Soundex percent match.  

AltGivenNameFlag

'Y' to search alternate given names.  'N' to not search alternate given names.

AltSurNameFlag

'Y' to search alternate surnames.  'N' to not search alternate surnames.

NameOptions

'E' for exact match.  'S' for names and initials.  'M' for names, initials, and middle as first.

MaxHitCount

The maximum number of records to be returned (defaults to a system setting if not specified).

The following two parameters apply to all search types.

FromDateType

B = Beginning Date for the Plant
S = Specific Date

ToDateType

C = Current Date
P = Plant Date
S = Specific Date

Sample

The following samples illustrate how to search for all property index documents posted to lots 3 and 4 of subdivision 2/15A.   Referring back to our list of functions in the section titled Primary DAO Functions, the web service call is 'SearchPI' and that is shown in the first example below.  In the second example, the DAO Page request has 'QueryName=PISearch' immediately following the question mark in the query statement.

DAO Web Service

NOTE:   'DAODataService' in the above example is the name given to a web reference.  Please refer to the section Using DAO Web Services which describes creating the web reference.  Also note that the Token parameter above will need to be obtained via a call to the 'DAOLoginService' (see the User Authentication Parameters section).
 

DAO Page Request

http://tsweb.titlescan.com/Query.aspx?QueryName=PISearch&UserName=tsweb&UserCompany=tss&UserPassword=anywhere&CompanyCode=ATC&SearchType=0&CountyCode=L&Legal=2/15A&FromLot=3&ToLot=4

 

IMPORTANT:  The UserName, UserCompany, and UserPassword parameters shown in the sample query above are example values only and will not work.  If you are developing software that uses the TitleSCAN Direct Access Option and wish to test that software using the TitleSCAN Web demonstration site at http://tsweb.titlescan.com, contact TitleSCAN Systems to obtain an account on that system.  When you obtain the account, you will be given UserName, UserCompany, and UserPassword values.  Substitute those values in the Query string above.
 

Result

The following is the XML result set.  The DAO Web Service request or the DAO Page Request will return this same result set.