Can we reuse the Tridion search functionality in custom page?

Question

As per the business requirement, in Custom Page they want the search functionality based on different criteria selected(like Publication, select Component type (Schema)) and also select different fields of that particular Component for filtering and after clicking on Run, the resulting filtered component will be displayed the same as Tridion view. When we right click the Component, that Component should have the same properties/options like versioning, open history.

Is the same result view (version, open, publishing, history etc..) possible? Also, how we can reuse the Tridion search functionality in a Custom Page.

Answer 1

I'll answer the second question first

how we can reuse the Tridion search functionality in a Custom Page.

Take a look at Core Service, and GetSearchResults (and other related methods for retrieving the results of a search). For filtering take a look at SearchQueryData which is passed in the previous method.

As for the first question,

Is the same result view (version, open, publishing, history etc..) possible

I'm not really sure whether you can reuse the exact look and feel of Tridion from within a Custom Page, I think not but I could be mistaken, someone with more experience with the UI can probably confirm this. What you can do is to build the same menu "manually" and implement the same functionality/buttons, again, using Core Service methods.