When I have had to construct these types of searches, you end up putting the user in a bit of a crunch, and end up developing a form that builds the 'advanced search string' for the table qualification. (This AND That) AND (Something OR Nothing)
For a simple "AND" construct a AL Guide and a run-if for each of the search fields with <field> != NULL then Append to Search Criteria To avoid this "development overhead", I have generally elected to create a "SEARCH VIEW" on the storage table, and just link into that view with what ever buttons open that form. The Reason is Users are Users, and understand how to use the "Advanced Search" option, which then gets me out of coding a complex setup to allow them to do complex searches! On the view you can easily add a button to "open the ticket" which will open the appropriate form (hopefully $SCHEMA$ was stored in the ALLTickets for ease of use) in Modify / Dialog / etc based upon the requirements Thanks-n-advance; HDT Platform Incident / Problem Manager & Architect Robert Molenda IT OS PA Tel: +1 408 503 2701 Fax: +1 408 503 2912 Mobile: +1 408 472 8097 [EMAIL PROTECTED] Quality begins with your actions. ________________________________ From: Action Request System discussion list(ARSList) [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Chris Moore Sent: Friday, May 04, 2007 11:25 AM To: arslist@ARSLIST.ORG Subject: Searching one form from another ** Hey everyone- We have several types of tickets and people want to be able to search across all of them. All ticket types push key information to the AllTickets form- Status, Submitter, Summary, Date Created, and so on (not sure how much of this was out of the box). I'm trying to make a form which can be an 'Advanced Search' type of form. I've made character or date fields to input the parameters and have a table linked to All Tickets to display the results. My thinking was that the criteria could be set in a hidden field called Search Criteria, then the table has the qualification EXTRNAL($Search Criteria$), but I'm not able to figure a good way to get multiple criteria in there. For example, if I simply set the hidden field to something like this (LIST fields are on the AllTickets form): 'LISTSummary' LIKE (("%" + $Summary$) +"%") AND 'LISTSubmitter' LIKE (("%" + $Summary$) +"%")... and so on, it won't run if fields any listed fields are null. Am I going about this all the wrong way? Any ideas on how to do this best? Thanks, Chris __20060125_______________________This posting was submitted with HTML in it___ _______________________________________________________________________________ UNSUBSCRIBE or access ARSlist Archives at www.arslist.org ARSlist:"Where the Answers Are"
