Better mobile app description search options?

Hi ​@ChrisB ,

Can you please try below ,On InventoryID, it is defined like this, you can use add/update as per need:

add field "InventoryID" {
      selectorDisplayFormat = KeyDescription
      pickerType = Searchable
    }

Hope above helps!!

Hi @ChrisB,

Rakshanda's change is the right first step for the picker: Searchable gives you the Search button and KeyDescription puts the description next to the ID. It won't change the matching, though. The picker sends what you typed to the server as one phrase and filters the item ID and description with a plain "contains". "uni panel" has to appear in that order inside the description, so it never hits.

The app does have a search that works the way your floor team wants: the Search tab on the bottom bar. It's the same entity search the web search box uses. It splits the text into words and requires every word, matched from the start of the word, in any order. "panel 35 uni" finds "Panel Universal 42 high at 35° stair". The result row shows the item type, the inventory ID and the description, which is all you need for the label.

Two conditions. The full-text entity index has to be built with InventoryItem included (Rebuild Full-Text Entity Index, SM209500). And the app only returns hits for records whose form is in the mobile site map. Stock Items (IN202500) isn't there out of the box, so add it on the customization project's Mobile Application page with Add New Screen. Publish that in a test tenant first and check the Search tab before it touches the scanners.