Search View

The Search view can be used to search on multiple objects:

<search name="sale-order-search" title="Sales Search" limit="100">

  <search-fields>
    <field name="partner" type="reference" target="com.axelor.contact.db.Contact"/>
    <field name="product" type="reference" target="com.axelor.sale.db.Product" widget="SuggestBox"/>
    <field name="customer" type="string" />
    <field name="date" type="date"/>
    <field name="value" type="decimal" />
    <field name="orderStatus" type="string" widget="single-select" selection="order.status.selection"/>
  </search-fields>

  <result-fields>
    <hilite if="value &gt; 100" color="red"/>
    <field name="customer" type="string">
      <hilite if="_model == 'com.axelor.contact.db.Contact'" color="brown"/>
    </field>
    <field name="product" type="string"/>
    <field name="date" type="date"/>
    <field name="value" type="decimal"/>
    <field name="state" title="Status" type="string" widget="single-select" selection="order.status.selection"/>
    <field name="color" type="string"/>
    <button name="showMeBtn" onClick="call-an-action" title="Show me" icon="fa-question-circle"/>
  </result-fields>

  <select model="com.axelor.contact.db.Contact" orderBy="company.name" limit="5">
    <field name="fullName" as="customer"/>
    <field name="dateOfBirth" as="date"/>
    <where match="any">
      <input name="customer" field="fullName" matchStyle="contains"/>
      <input name="partner.fullName" field="fullName"/>
      <input name="date" field="dateOfBirth"/>
    </where>
  </select>

  <select model="com.axelor.sale.db.Order" title="Sale Order" orderBy="orderDate,-amount" distinct="true">
    <field name="customer.fullName" as="customer"/>
    <field name="items.product.name" as="product"/>
    <field name="items.product.color" as="color" selection="product.color.selection"/>
    <field name="orderDate" as="date"/>
    <field name="amount" as="value"/>
    <field name="status" as="state"/>
    <where>
      <input name="orderStatus" field="status"/>
      <where match="any">
        <input name="customer" field="customer.fullName" matchStyle="contains"/>
        <input name="partner" field="customer"/>
        <input name="date" field="orderDate"/>
        <input name="value" field="amount" matchStyle="greaterOrEqual"/>
        <input name="product" field="items.product"/>
      </where>
    </where>
  </select>

</search>

The <search-fields> defines fields to be used to provide search criteria (inputs).

The <result-fields> defines the possible result fields which can be mapped with actual object fields.

The <select> tag defines search criteria per object and maps the object fields to the result fields.

The <where> tag defines the conditions (it can be recursive). You can use FQN to match against any field value from the object graph.

The matchStyle can be used to tell how to match the inputs. Possible value can be:

  • contains - if the field value contains the given input value

  • startsWith - if field value starts with the given input value

  • endsWith - if the field value ends with the given input value

  • equals - if the field value equals the input value (default matchStyle)

  • notEquals - if the field value is not equal to the input value

  • lessThan - if field value is less than the input value

  • lessOrEqual - if field value is less then or equal to the input value

  • greaterOrEqual - if field value is greater than or equal to the input value

The select and input tags can have optional if condition taking any boolean expression in Groovy that evaluates against the input values. If the result of the expression is false then those elements are skipped.

The where condition is determined from match="any|all" attribute that corresponds to the OR and AND respectively.

By default, the search is done on all objects (defined by the <select> tags). It is possible to select on which the search is carried out.

Some <action-menu> can be defined in order to run quick actions. The Launch button with trigger the given action-menu#action with the given context :

{
    "_searchContext": {

        (1)
        "code": "A",
        "product": {
          "id": 1,
          "name": "P1",
          "version": 1
        },

        (2)
        "_results": [
          {
            "model": "com.axelor.contact.db.Contact",
            "ids": [1, 2, 3]
          },
          {
           "model": "com.axelor.sale.db.Product",
           "ids": [1, 2, 3]
          }
        ]
    }
}
1 : All not null search fields
2 : Selected search result ids group by model

a special ref built-in variable can be used in expression. It will refer to the first selected record in multi-object search view.