Configuring Search

You can configure Search.

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Configuring Properties
  1. Create or open the text file to contain customized properties.
  2. To specify the behavior when users select options in the My Engineering View Dashboard:
    1. To specify the number of records that are listed when a user select a number in the Items section of the dashboard, edit this value:

      emxEngineeringCentral.InitialLoad.QueryLimit = 5000

    2. To specify the number or parts records that are listed when the user opens My Engineering View, edit this value: 

      emxEngineeringCentral.MyENGViewInitialLoad.QueryLimit = 50

    3. To specify the maximum number of query results to display in My Engineering View, edit this value:

    emxEngineeringCentral.MaximumDisplay.QueryLimit = 5000

  3. To specify the search results window behavior, follow these steps:
    1. Add or edit this line in the file used to import properties into a page object: 

      emxEngineeringCentral.CloseSearchResultsOnNameClick = true

      By default, the search results window remains open when the user clicks a name hyperlink, bringing up the respective navigation tree in the main window.

    2. Set the value for this property depending on your business requirements:

      • true = The search results window closes automatically after the user clicks a name hyperlink.
      • false = The search results window remains open after the user clicks a name hyperlink.

  4. To specify states to ignore for unreleased search results window, follow these steps:
    1. Add or edit this line in the file used to import properties into a page object 

      emxEngineeringCentral.ReleaseAndGreaterStates=state_Released,state_Obsolete

      When searching for unreleased parts, parts in the Released state or greater are typically not included in the search results.

    2. Parts in the states that this property specifies are not included in search results. Set one or more values for this property depending on your business requirements:

      • state_In Work
      • state_Frozen
      • state_Approved
      • state_Released
      • state_Obsolete

  5. To Launch Search results for spare parts within multi-level EBOM, follow these steps:
    1. Add or edit this line in the file used to import properties into a page object 

      emxEngineeringCentral.Command.SparePartWithinBOMContextEnabled=No

      This key determines whether the Add Existing (Only Parts on Multi-Level EBOM) command under the Actions menu in the Spare Parts tab is shown. When users click this command, only spare parts within context of a multi-level EBOM will be displayed in the search results page.

    2. Set the value for this property depending on your business requirements:

      • No = Hide the command. This is the default value.
      • Yes = Show the command.

  6. If needed, continue editing the page object. If finished, save the page.
  7. When finished updating the text file with all properties you want to modify, including the ones shown here, use the text file to modify the emxEngineeringCentral.properties page object. For more information, see Editing Properties Using MQL.