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 works with Indexing either enabled or disabled in the application. With indexing enabled, the search for the entities occurs 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. Index-based search 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. With Indexing disabled in the application, it performs a global search for a specific type of entity at a time based on the keyword you provide.

The recommended search method is to use index-based searching as it renders a better user experience.

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

Using Index-based Global Search

Index-based global search has got enhanced capabilities over the normal global search. It allows 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 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 Networks, Partners, Templates, Transaction, etc if any of their applicable fields contain the text ‘Test Adeptia’.   
  
  

Follow the steps below to use index-based 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.

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.
      
      

Refining the search result

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

1. Click Refine Search for the specific entity. For example, searching for a Template entity using Refine Search.
   
   
   
   
2. The Search Templates 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 Template. 
   
   You can define multiple rules in Search Templates pane by clicking the Add Rule icon.
   
   
   
   
3. Click Search and it displays the results based on the defined rules.

Using non index-based Global Search

Search with indexing disabled functions as a normal global search based on the keyword provided. You can search for the following types of entities globally all through the application.

• Networks
• Partners
• Transactions
• Available Templates
• Configured Templates
• Users
• Web Forms
• Published Networks
• Project

Follow the steps below to search for an entity:

1. Click  on the top right corner of the header to open Global Search.
   
   
   
   
2. Select the type of entity you want to search for in the application from the Select Entity drop-down list.
   
   
   
   
3. Type the text in the search text box and click Search.