Call BAQ Search or Quick Search from UI Code?

[DGodfrey (Dan Godfrey)]

Does anyone have a snippet of code that would call up a BAQ Search or a quick search?

I want to have a search button associated to a UDField. I made the simple BAQ and assigned the UDField as a BAQ Search “Like” Column. In the UI customization, I tried the ListLookUp function, but since the UDField is the focus field, it seems that assigning the adapter that the UDField is associated with will not work.

The request was to make it look as similar as other searchable fields.

I also created a Quick Search Entry. This would allow the user to right click on the field and search this way. But I am sure that they will want a “search button” look. Hmm, how about calling a quick search from the UI?

Any suggestion?

[klincecum (Kevin Lincecum)]

Quick Search - Replace Base Search

Way back machine is your friend Origninal post from trigemco.com To simply call a custom quick search on a button click you can make a call to the InvokeAdapterMethod of the ProcessCaller library. The Quick Search Adapter implements the ShowQuickSearchForm method which when called will show you and let you execute a given Quick Search. This is the simplest way to call a Quick Search Form on demand, the resulting object will be either the selected key (if single select) or an ArrayList of all …

Call a Custom Quick Search

Let us know if you need further help.

[jadixon (Jeanne)]

I realize this is an old post, but I am having a bit of trouble using this with a UD table. I put the code into the button click event and while the search works it isn’t returning anything.

When I had the where clause string with “SysRowID=‘{0}’”, it gave me errors, so I changed it to be Key2, which is the field my job number is in.

What am I missing to get the data to return to the form?

	private void epiBtnJobs_Click(object sender, System.EventArgs args)
	{
		// ** Place Event Handling Code Here **
object ret = ProcessCaller.InvokeAdapterMethod(oTrans.EpiBaseForm, "QuickSearchAdapter", "ShowQuickSearchForm", new object[] {oTrans.EpiBaseForm, "JobInsp", true /* multi-select */, new DataTable() });
  
// user cancelled
if (ret == null) return;
  
// If multi-select, ret is an ArrayList whose elements are the selected values
  
// If single-select, ret is the selected value string
  
// Perform a native lookup with the returned result
SearchOptions opts = new SearchOptions(SearchMode.AutoSearch);
opts.NamedSearch.WhereClauses.Add("UD33", string.Format("Key2='{0}'",ret.ToString()));
opts.DataSetMode = DataSetMode.RowsDataSet;
UD33Adapter _adapter = (UD33Adapter)csm.TransAdaptersHT["oTrans_adapter"];
_adapter.InvokeSearch(opts);
oTrans.NotifyAll();	

	}