Bookshelf v7.5.3: Find Field Objects

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Find Field Objects

Find Field is a child object type of Find. A Find Field object definition adds a find field to its parent Find object definition. The find field appears as a text box in the Search Center when the parent find is active. Each child Find Field object definition provides the parent Find with a find value text box and corresponding field name to search.

Properties

Table 14 lists the Find Field object properties.

Table 14. Find Field Object Properties
Property	Required	Description
Display Name	Optional	The text (or key to localized text) that will be displayed for this find field when its parent Find object definition is active in the Search Center window.
Field	Required	The field being searched in the business component.
Name	Required	Name of the search field added.
Sequence	Optional	The position of this find field in the list of fields displayed in the Search Center-Find category for the parent find object definition.
Title	Optional	Reserved for future use.
Display in Results	Optional	Checking this option allows the field to be displayed on the find results applet in the Search Center. By default the whole field value will be displayed. But you can set a limit so that characters after the max length will be skipped and you will see an ellipsis (...) in the end. You need to use the user property in Find Results List Applet to set the length limit. Use the following applet user properties. User Property Name: [Find Object Name] User Property Value: [Find Field] = [Length] or if more than one, User Property Value: [Find Field Name] = [Length], [Find Field Name] = [Length], [Find Field Name] = [Length] ...
Display in Entry	Optional	Checking this option allows the field to be displayed on the find entry applet in the Search Center.

Rules and Assumptions

The field specified in a find field must be a field that exists in the business component for the applet for the find object definition.

The Search Center-Find category and a query by example (QBE) can have different behavior for multi-value fields because the Search Center will generate the same query as if you did an EXISTS query on the field in QBE. You can verify this by embedding your QBE expression with Exists(), for example (Aga*).

QBE supports both types of querying, but to keep the Search Center simple, Siebel applications implement a query that works in all cases. This query uses the syntax Ada* (where the wildcard, as indicated by an asterisk (*) is appended to the search text). If you want to mimic the behavior of the non-Exists version with the Search Center-Find category, you should create a join from the primary ID field for the MVLink to the table containing the data. Then add a field on the table you joined to and point your find field to this new field. This change will cause the query to use the syntax EXISTS (Ada*).

If you want to do an exact search in a Find field, prefix the search text with an equal sign (=) sign. For example, = Ada. The query uses the syntax = Ada. (No wildcard is appended to the text)