topic Re: How to handle a lot of searches in Web UI in Nuxeo Forum

How to handle a lot of searches in Web UI

Rodri_ — Mon, 20 Apr 2020 12:09:22 GMT

Hello,

In my project, I have more than 20 document types, and I need searches for all of them. I am following this: https://doc.nuxeo.com/nxdoc/web-ui-search/

All searches work properly; however, as I have a lot of searches (more than 20), I have more than 20 icons in the left menu, which is not good as it becomes difficult to handle. Is there any way to group all the searches in one single icon in the left menu? I remember that, in Nuxeo JSF, there was a kind of "select" to select one search or another. Is this possible in Web UI? If it is possible, how can I do it?

Thank you.

Re: How to handle a lot of searches in Web UI

Gregory_Carlin — Mon, 20 Apr 2020 12:18:55 GMT

Hi Rodri,

This is a very good question actually. This is a current topic of our Design team who investigate on the best way to scale a lot of configuration / actions (same goes with the document actions, the actions on the document listing, a document type with a lot of properties etc).

That said, here are my thoughts:

If you have different groups who access the searches, setting a filter on each search item is an option (I did it with the browse item for example, to display a root element different from one group to another)
You can also add search submenus, as for the admin menu for example
In the worst case scenario, you can create a complete new menu with pages and subpages
Saved searches are not configurable from Studio, so I bet there's a way to automate the saved search from automation scripting

Regards

Re: How to handle a lot of searches in Web UI

Rodri_ — Tue, 21 Apr 2020 07:25:43 GMT

Thank you for your reply [Gregory Carlin](https

Re: How to handle a lot of searches in Web UI

Gregory_Carlin — Tue, 21 Apr 2020 07:48:53 GMT

Hello, you can take example of https

Re: How to handle a lot of searches in Web UI

Rodri_ — Tue, 21 Apr 2020 08:04:56 GMT

Hello, I've tried that, but in both examples, a link is defined (ADMINISTRATION_MENU) redirecting to a page (ADMINISTRATION_PAGES). With searchs, we have