Setting the Find Search Type Attributes

In the Desktop client, Aptify provides two different types of Find dialogs that users can use to search for records within a particular service; a basic search dialog that limits the search criteria to the name or ID of a record and an advanced search dialog that allows users to define multiple filters on multiple fields within the service. By default, Aptify's basic Find dialog is opened when searching for records throughout the Aptify system. A user can access the advanced search option by clicking the link to the right of the search text field, however, there may be cases when having the advanced find dialog open by default is more appropriate. Therefore, Aptify allows an administrator to configure the find dialog that is opened when performing search operations on a global or per-entity basis.

This behavior is controlled by the FindSearchTypeGlobalDefault attribute found on the Configuration > Attributes tab of the Entities entity.

• The possible values for this attribute are Basic (open the basic search dialog for all searches throughout the system, which is the default value) and Advanced (use the advanced search dialog for all searches within Aptify).
• If this attribute does not exist on the Entities entity (or has an invalid value), the basic find dialog will be displayed.

You can modify this attribute at the global level as necessary based on the system functionality desired. In addition, you can add the FindSearchType attribute to any entity to control which search dialog is opened when searching for records within a particular service.

• The possible values for this attribute are Basic (open the basic search dialog when performing searches for records within the particular service) and Advanced (use the advanced search dialog when performing searches for records within the particular service).

• If the FindSearchType attribute exists for an entity, then the find dialog specified within the attribute will be used. If an attribute does not exist for an entity (or has an invalid value), the global find dialog setting will be used.