I’ve got a custom dashboard that I’ve built in Classic and it works fine. It has a tracker view for part number. I’m now building out the Kinetic version (since it doesn’t conveniently auto-convert pbtttt) and used a template (from the Insights session on dashboard conversion) and was able to get a functioning version (see below).
Now I’m trying to just make it a little more “friendly” by adding in a search on Part number in the filter section so that the functional person doesn’t need to type in the part number but can do a search. I’m following all of the instructions (from alearning center course and from other sources) but when I test it out and click on the search icon I get nothing. I’m wondering if this isn’t a possibility???
Just as a note, you can add a search within the field itself so you don’t need an extra button. It’s not gonna change the functionality at all, just a note.
I can’t tell if you have done this or not. Based on the screenshot, I see a button, but based on your text, you mention a “search icon.”
To your issue, you say “I click the icon and get nothing.”
That would tell me your search-show widget isn’t configured properly. Your screenshot shows the search-value-set, though. Can we see the properties you have set for the search-show?
The search button is used to trigger the subsequent load of the dashboard details below and that works just fine. I’m just trying to add in a std part search so the functional person doesn’t have to type the p/n in each time.
I initiated debugging and it appears that when I click on the search icon it leaves nothing for a trail. If I enter a p/n directly and click on the search button to load the detail from the baq I get data AND I see tracks in the debugging trail.
I’m back to my earlier supposition that maybe I can’t add std field search functionality when it is part of the “tracker” or “filter” component??? Either that or I’m not doing something correctly to initiate the search??? I’m NOT an app studio person by any stretch.
Okay, let’s go waaaay back to the start for troubleshooting. Delete the search-show and search-value-set widgets and replace it with a message-handler widget. When you click the icon, does your message show up?
Nah–this wouldn’t matter. Something is just configured improperly or Kinetic gremlins. Sometimes the very act of deleting a widget and reconfiguring it solves problems.
Try this (just trying to get something to fire at this point):
Create a button, within the OnClick event add an event-next and call that event you’ve been working with to see if that message handler fires.
Ok, coming back to this after being diverted to other “stuff”. Well, it looks like I’ve figured out one piece to this puzzle. I screwed up on the SearchFilters event in that I used the hook of “On Click” instead of “On Search”. I corrected that issue and rebuilt my subsequent steps and voila, it worked! It brought back the part number and populated the field … but then looks like it kept going and loaded the entire string of part numbers with tilde delimiter between. I’ve got one last little thing involving operator error which I need to solve but not sure what.
