How can you open search dialog in javascript with a filter

Question

Hello 
 as per title - how can we set the filter for search dialog in javascript

var param = { 
 title: title, 
 aras: top.aras, 
 type: 'SearchDialog', 
 dialogWidth: 700, 
 dialogHeight: 450, 
 itemtypeName: 'Part' 
 };

wnd.ArasModules.Dialog.show('iframe', param).show("iframe", param); 
 
 Is it possible to catch an even of this dialog? 
 
 Or how can we manually run the opened dialog "search"? The dialog is an iframe and the dijits have no ids 
 I managed to make it work for test case with, mind you i cannot use this in reality, scope issues

dijit . byId ( "dijit_form_TextBox_0" ). setDisplayedValue ( "3*" ); 
 dijit . byId ( dojo . query ( '.dijitButton' )[ 0 ]. attributes . widgetid . nodeValue ). onClick () 
 
 Thank you

Christopher Gillis · Accepted Answer

Hello, 
 For this use case, we typically recommend creating a new property on the ItemType to serve as a placeholder to attach your onSearchDialog event to. This will new property is typically not intended to store any data and should be hidden from every form and grid. You can call this property something like filter_placeholder . 
 Once you have this new property on the Part ItemType, you can attach your onSearchDialog to it and update your method code to use this new property's name to call the filtering event. 
 var param = { 
 title: title , 
 aras: top . aras , 
 type: 'SearchDialog' , 
 dialogWidth: 700 , 
 dialogHeight: 450 , 
 itemtypeName: 'Part' , 
 
 sourceItemTypeName: 'Part' , 
 sourcePropertyName: 'filter_placeholder' 
 }; 
 var dialog = wnd . ArasModules . Dialog . show ( 'iframe' , param ); 
 dialog . promise . then ( dojo . partial ( callback , copy ));

Chris 
 Christopher Gillis 
 Aras Labs Software Engineer

Christopher Gillis · Answer

Hello, 
 It is possible to filter a search dialog by setting an onSearchDialog event on a property of an ItemType as outlined in this blog . 
 When calling a search dialog from JavaScript like in your example, you can set the sourceItemTypeName and sourcePropertyName in the parameters you pass in. If an onSearchDialog event exists on the property name you pass in using these parameters, that filter will be applied to the search dialog opened by your code. For a full list of the parameters available when opening a search dialog, please see this blog post on using standard aras dialogs . 
 Chris 
 Christopher Gillis 
 Aras Labs Software Engineer

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