Search in the Action Bar (system only)

1. Check "Allow the search in the Action Bar". A new event is automatically associated with the Action Bar control: "Validating the search". This event makes search possible.
2. If the "With search history" option is checked, the search history will be shown to the user.
   Remark: The "With button to clear the history" option is used to automatically clear the history.

1. Create a search button in the Action Bar (a "Magnifier" button for example).
2. In the code of this option, use ActionBarSearchVisible to display the search edit control. For example:
   
   ActionBarSearchVisible(True, "Customer to find")
   
3. Open the WLanguage events associated with the Action Bar control. In the "Validating the search" event, enter the code used to perform the search and display the result. In this code, you have the ability to find out the value entered by the user via SearchValue.
   For example:
   
   // Find a product.
   // The result is displayed in a Looper control.
   // The searched value corresponds to a parameter of the base query of the Looper control.
   QRY_Products.ParamName = ACTB_ActionBar.SearchValue
   LooperDisplay(LOOP_QRY_Products, taReExecuteQuery)
   

• If the history of searches is enabled:
  • when the edit control is empty, the 10 last searches are proposed.
  • when the edit is started, 10 suggestions are displayed according to what was already typed.
• You have the ability to clear the history with ActionBarDeleteSearchHistory.
• If the "With button to clear the history" option is selected, an option to clear the history will appear at the end of the search results.
• Two WLanguage events are automatically added when search is enabled in the Action Bar:
  • Validating the search.
  • Modifying the search.
• Canceling the search: To find out whether the search was canceled by the user, check the value of SearchValue in the "Validating the search" event. This value is set to "" (empty string) in case of cancellation.

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