Jason Williams over at digitar.com recently recreated the FogBugz Firefox Search Plugin for the new IE7 Beta.

The .xml file on his site is for his FogBugz install.  Here are the contents which  you can set for your own install:

fogbugz.xml

<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8" ?>
<OpenSearchDescription xmlns="http://a9.com/-/spec/opensearch/1.1/">
  <ShortName>FogBugz</ShortName>
  <Description>Fog Creek FogBugz Search</Description>
  <Tags>fogbugz bug case feature incident</Tags>
  <Contact>youremail@yourdomain.com</Contact>
  <Url type="text/html" method="get" template="http://yourfogbugzserver.com/default.asp?pre=preMultiSearch&pg=pgList&search=2&searchFor={searchTerms}" />
  <LongName>FogBugz Search</LongName>
  <Image height="16" width="16" type="image/png">http://yourfogbugzserver/fogbugz.png</Image>
  <Query role="example" searchTerms="radiation leak" />
  <Developer>Your name</Developer>
  <Attribution>Search data © 2006, Your Company, All Rights Reserved</Attribution>
  <SyndicationRight>open</SyndicationRight>
  <AdultContent>false</AdultContent>
  <Language>en-us</Language>
  <OutputEncoding>UTF-8</OutputEncoding>
  <InputEncoding>UTF-8</InputEncoding>
</OpenSearchDescription>

Then you can create an html file with the following in it:

<a href="fogbugz.xml">
  Click here to install the search provider
</a>

Load that in IE7, click the link and you should be set!

If you are using a recent version of FogBugz and Firefox you can have the same thing.  Just click on Options and follow the link to install the search engine plugin.  If you want more details, you can follow this guide which shows you how to make the same plugins from scratch.

If you like to add any comments to this article, or thoughts on the advice here, please see this topic on our discussion forum.

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