Finding exactly what you need inside Adeptia Connect can be difficult sometimes, especially when you try to search for an entity based on more than one criterion. 

The Global Search in Adeptia Connect helps you search for entities globally all through the application from a single section. It displays all the applicable entities that have the keyword you use in your search.

This search feature allows you to search for the entities at an advanced level and the search result comprises all the available entities with matching keyword – you can further refine a search result based on some parameters. It also allows you to select a specific type of entity to be searched for by displaying (as you type the search text) a list of entities that may have the keyword you specify.

The following table lists the supported entities and their fields for global search. The search result comprises one or more of these entities depending on their fields having the text that matches the keyword.

Using Global Search

Global Search lets you to search for one or multiple types of entities at a time based on the keyword you use in your search. The following search examples further explain the behavior of this feature:

• If you search for the entities with a keyword ‘Pun’, it produces the search result containing all the entities, including Services, Networks, Partners, Templates, Transaction, etc if they have a similar keyword in any of their applicable fields.
• If you search for the entities with the keyword ‘Test Adeptia’, it produces the search result containing all the entities, including Services, Networks, Partners, Templates, Transaction, etc if any of their applicable fields contain the text ‘Test Adeptia’.   
  
  

Follow the steps below to use Global Search function:

1. Click  on the top right corner of the header to open Global Search.

2. Type the text in the search box.
   As you type, the search box provides you suggestions on entities to pick one from.
   
   
   
   

3. You can select a specific entity from the list to keep your search focused on a single entity. Or, you can click  to search for all the entities.

   If you select the phrase '... in Services' from the list, the search result carries expandable list of all the services along with the count of service instances present in each of them. To know more, refer to the section Searching for services.

1. 1. Select a specific entity to display all the matching records based on the keyword that you use. Up to twelve matches are displayed and as before, you can click Show More to load more matching records. 
      

      Show More button is not applicable for Transactions Logs and Configured Templates.

      
      
      

   2. When you are searching for all the entities based on your keyword, the results include all applicable entities. The screen shows three entries for each entity. You can view more results per entity by clicking Show More. 
      
      
      
      Further, if you want to filter the matching records, you can use Refine Search to get the desired result. However, you do not have this option to refine the search results for services.  
      
      

Refining the search result

Refine Search helps you filter the records for a specific entity based on some attributes.

1. Click Refine Search icon for the specific entity. For example, searching for a Transaction entity using Refine Search.
   
   
   
   
2. The Search Transactions pane opens. Provide the Where, Condition with values and click Search to fetch results for a specific entity. For example, in the image below the user is trying to search for EDI Outbound Transaction. 
   
   You can define multiple rules in Search Transactions pane by clicking the Add Rule icon.
   
   
   
   
3. Click Search and it displays the results based on the defined rules.

Searching for services

There are two ways you can search for the services:

1. As you type the keyword in the search box, you can select the phrase '...in Services' from the drop-down suggestions provided by the system. 

2. You can navigate to the search result for services by clicking  in the search summary in the left pane. You get this option when you have  searched for all types of entities based on your keyword and the results include all applicable entities.

   To see the instance of a service type, you can click the  icon as depicted below.
   
   
   
   

   A service with count zero (0) is not expandable.