B25.SearchContext

Overview

This class represents a search being performed by the user. It allows you to get more information about the context of the search, as well as narrowing down the search results with additional conditions.

Example

This search handler adds an extra query condition to the SearchContext, in order to only show Contacts related to the selected Account.

global class MyContactSearch extends B25.SearchHandler {
    global override B25.SearchResultCollection getSearchResults(B25.SearchContext searchContext) {
        Id accountId = searchContext.getForm().getReservation().B25__Account__c;
        if (accountId != null) {
            searchContext.addCondition('AND Account = \'' + accountId + '\'');
        }
        return searchContext.getDefaultResults();
    }
}

Methods

getSearchTerm

String getSearchTerm()

Returns the search term that the user has typed.

Return value: String

getDefaultResults

B25.SearchResultCollection getDefaultResults()

Returns a Collection wrapping the results that would be generated by GoMeddo, modified by any conditions defined (also see addCondition).

To access the individual results, call getResults() on the Collection.

Return value: B25.SearchResult.Collection

getForm

Returns the Form object that the user has performed the search on. This can be useful to get more information about the other fields that have been filled in on the reservation, using the Form.getReservation method.

Return value: B25.Form

getConditions

Returns the conditions that have already been defined. These will narrow down the search results returned by getDefaultResults(). As this is a reference to the actual list, you can still manipulate this list (such as adding or removing entries) before calling getDefaultResults().

Return value: List<String>

addCondition

Adds a condition to narrow down the search results returned by getDefaultResults(). Functionally identical to calling getConditions().add(condition).

Dynamic references to parameters (i.e. ‘Account = :accountId’) will not work. Make sure to escape ids in the following way:

Parameters:

Name	Type	Description

Name	Type	Description
condition	String	The condition that you want to add.

getSearchFields

Returns the fields that will be queried for the search term.

Return value: List<String>

addSearchField

Adds a field to be queried for the search term. For example, if you also want to search for contacts by phone number, do the following:

If the user performing the search has no access to any of these fields, they are ignored. So if the user has no access to the MobilePhone field in the example above, only the HomePhone field is searched.

You can also search for fields on related records. For example, if you also want to search for contacts by account name, do the following:

Parameters:

Name	Type	Description

Name	Type	Description
fieldName	String	The API name of a field that you want to be searched.

setLabelTemplate

This method lets you define what the label of each search result should be, based on one or more merge fields. For example, if you want to display your contact labels like this: LastName, FirstName (AccountName), you would do the following:

The above would result in an output like this:

If the user performing the search has no access to any of these fields, they are replaced with an empty string.

By default (so if you would never call this method) only the record name is displayed as the label. This is the same as doing the following:

Parameters:

Name	Type	Description

Name	Type	Description
template	String	A string containing numbered placeholders which will be replaced with actual values in the final result.
mergeFields	List<String>	An ordered list of merge field API names. These will replace the matching placeholders in the template with each record’s actual values.

setMetaTemplate

Similar to the above method setLabelTemplate, except this method lets you define the meta text instead of the label. The meta text is displayed under the label, and can provide more information about a record. For example, you could use it to display a contacts phone number:

The above would result in an output like this:

If the user performing the search has no access to any of these fields, they are replaced with an empty string.

Parameters:

Name	Type	Description

Name	Type	Description
template	String	A string containing numbered placeholders which will be replaced with actual values in the final result.
mergeFields	List<String>	An ordered list of merge field API names. These will replace the matching placeholders in the template with each record’s actual values.

setDefaultIcon

Sets the icons for the results generated through this context. You can use icons from this page: https://www.lightningdesignsystem.com/icons/ , except for the icons in the Action category. Reference icons by combining the category and the icon name, with a colon in between. For example, 'standard:contact' will give you the contact icon from the Standard category.

Return value: B25.SearchResult

Parameters:

Name	Type	Description

Name	Type	Description
icon	String	The name of the icon.

setOrderBy

Used to override the sorting mechanism for the results generated through this context.

For example, searchContext.setOrderBy('Email', 'ASC NULLS LAST') will alphabetically sort the returned records by the Email field on the object, with the records that contain no email address put at the bottom.

Possible values for sort order include:

ASC NULLS FIRST
ASC NULLS LAST
ASC
DESC NULLS FIRST
DESC NULLS LAST
DESC

Return value: B25.SearchResult

Parameters:

Name	Type	Description

Name	Type	Description
orderField	String	The field name that will be used to sort the results.
sortOrder	String	The sorting clause that will be applied to the results.

setOrderBy

Used to override the sorting mechanism for the results generated through this context. Results will be ordered by the entries in orderFields and sortOrder, starting with the first in each of the two lists.

Take the following example:

This will alphabetically sort the returned records by the FirstName field on the object, with the records that contain no FirstName put at the bottom.

Then, for each record with a duplicate FirstName, the records will be ordered by how recently they were created.

Note that the number of ordering fields must match the number of sort order clauses provided.

Possible values for sort order include:

ASC NULLS FIRST
ASC NULLS LAST
ASC
DESC NULLS FIRST
DESC NULLS LAST
DESC

Return value: B25.SearchResult

Parameters:

Name	Type	Description

Name	Type	Description
orderFields	List<String>	The field names that will be used to sort the results.
sortOrders	List<String>	The sorting clauses that will be applied to the results.