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How to enable searching by custom attributes?

  • June 25, 2025
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I’m trying to use this article: https://www.acumatica.com/blog/technical-tuesday-universal-search-in-acumatica/ to allow for searching by custom fields, however, every time I do, it says the field does not exist in the type. Is there a way to do this, or not for custom fields?

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  • Captain II
  • June 26, 2025

@kkraus 

 

Could you please confirm whether it is an ‘Attribute’ or ‘Custom Field’ you are trying to search for, these are two very different things in this context.

 

If it is a custom field, you should put the extension class name instead of the regular class name for example GLTranExt instead of GLTran.

Now, for an attribute, I am not sure if you are able to search for these but there may be someone more qualified than me to answer that.


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  • Freshman II
  • June 26, 2025

@kkraus 

 

Could you please confirm whether it is an ‘Attribute’ or ‘Custom Field’ you are trying to search for, these are two very different things in this context.

 

If it is a custom field, you should put the extension class name instead of the regular class name for example GLTranExt instead of GLTran.

Now, for an attribute, I am not sure if you are able to search for these but there may be someone more qualified than me to answer that.

I assume attribute, as it’s a user defined field. Disappointing if its not searchable. 


Chris Hackett
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  • Acumatica Community Manager
  • September 23, 2025

Hi ​@kkraus were you able to find a solution? Thank you!