In the Projects window, expand the Configuration node in the project you want to modify, and then double-click midm.xml.
The file opens in the NetBeans XML editor.
Scroll to the simple-search-page element you want to modify in the record-details element.
In the field-group you want to modify, do any of the following:
To modify the name of the area in which the field group appears in the MIDM, change the value of the description element.
To add a new field to a field group, create and name a new field-ref element in the appropriate field-group element.
To modify the name of a field defined for a field group, change the value of the field-ref element.
To specify whether a field is required, add a required attribute and specify a value defined in Record Details Search Page Definition Elements.
To specify whether a field is used for range searching, add a choice attribute and specify a value defined in Record Details Search Field Definition Elements.
To delete a field from a field group, delete all text between and including the field-ref tags that define the field to be deleted.
To delete an entire field group, delete all text between and including the field-group tags that define the field group to be deleted.
Save and close the file.