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Workdesk Search Template question

mtiwari — Tue, 24 Mar 2015 22:25:45 GMT

I am trying to build a document search which should use one input field from the form but match it to 2 separate properties.Example- the user enters ID = 123456, I want to return all documents where property 'CaseNumber' = 123456 and 'CaseAspect.CaseNumber' is also equal to 123456 but I don't want t

Re: Workdesk Search Template question

deko — Wed, 08 Apr 2015 07:34:28 GMT

Hi mtiwari,

This functionality is not possible with an OOTB Workdesk. Normally you would either use two search templates (one for each property) or your users would have to enter the value twice if being used in one search template. Literals in a standard search template cannot be filled during runtime, but are there to be filled with a predefined value in the template itself.

As solution for your request, you could try to code a custom field control for the second property field, which is active only in the search context and copies over the value from the first field after every character entered in the first field.

Best regards,
Dennis

Re: Workdesk Search Template question

mtiwari — Tue, 14 Apr 2015 13:49:16 GMT

Thanks.
I ended up writing a custom search form which copies over the contents from the first field to the other on focus.