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Document Search Customisable Layout

Feature: Allow Define Customisable Layout for search result

Goal: Technical

Developer: Hengsin Low

Idea/POC: Norbert Bede

Sponsor: Cloudempiere

Feature Ticket: IDEMPIERE-6253

Description​

iDempiere Document Search NF2.1 Document Search on Menu Lookup, allow define search, but the result is plain. This change allow define new visualisation (plan, card, markdown, table), Example. DocumentSearchCardLayout

Document Search Card Layout

Release Notes Summary

  • New Features in Search Definition Window:

  • Added AD_Message_ID and AD_Style_ID fields. Note These fields are visible when the search type is set to "Query" (SearchType=Q).

  • Enhanced Query type searches:

    • Query results can now be formatted using Message Text from AD_Message and styled with CSS definitions from AD_Style. Formatting with `AD_Message

  • Supports both HTML and Markdown, or a mix of both.

    • Use <#md></#md> tags to enclose Markdown.

  • Basic structure support for headers, bodies, and footers:

    • Header text with <#header></#header>
    • Footer text with <#footer></#footer>

  • Flexible variable substitution options:

 - Message format variables `{0}`, `{1}`, etc., and context variables like `@Name@`.
 - Special variables: `@WindowName@` for window name and `@Row@` for row number**CSS Styling with `AD_Style`**

CSS Styling with AD_Style

Built from AD_StyleLine and uses scoped CSS instead of inline styles.

 - Scoped CSS is not enabled by default in Firefox; to enable, use `about:config` and set `layout.css.at-scope.enabled` to `true`.

Additional Updates and Fixes: Added a new JavaScript function: idempiere.directZoom(keyColumnName, id).

Resolved an issue in AD Window list view:

  • Fixed broken list view display when field content includes single or double quotation marks.

This update brings enhanced search result customization and improved list view stability.

Source: Wiki