Portal Asset Search

Marek_Lefek · June 2017

Hi Joivan,

I've used @Stefan_Henseler customization from github, but it is not the solution.

Is there a possibility to display the Software/Hardware/User option on list only for specific users or groups?

Marek_Lefek · June 2017

Is there a possibility, that in search top menu, normal users could have only standard options (WorkItems, KnowledgeBase and ServiceCatalog). Search for Hardware Items, Software Item and Users menu will be avaible ony for Analitycs or Asset Managers?

joivan_hedrick · June 2017

@Marek_Lefek Indeed, both options are very possible.
For any user, you can check to see if they are an administrator by using "session.user.IsAdmin" . Similarly, you can check for analysts and asset managers with "session.user.Analyst" and "session.user.AssetManager". See attached ss_01 for screenshot.

With a little bit of additional scripting and the GetUsersGroups API call, you can check the current user's AD group membership as well. And if they are a member of certain AD groups, then either show or hide the categories. This API call is done in the attached js file.

German_Minicucci · June 2017

I'm not an expert... but I'm trying to use this code to have the 3 additional options on the main search box but instead of displaying results, redirect the search to a custom page.
Basically, you'd select "User", enter something "Smith" and either if you click on the magnifying glass or hit enter capture that and redirect to another URL.
Any advice from the gurus?

Conner_Wood · September 2017

Does this work in latest portal release?

joivan_hedrick · September 2017

Affirmative, it works with the current version of 8.1.0.2016.

Silas_Sulser · October 2017

Many thanks for sharing that solution! We totally love it.

Is there any possibility (code) to set "Work items" as default search category?

After adding this Asset Search App the search category is automatically being set to "Hardware Asset" which is not very convenient for us, because we more use the workitem search.

On the "custom_InitSearch.js"-file I've seen the line:

customSearchHardwareAsset.initSearch(searchInput);
// set Hardware Asset search as default if user is hardware asset manager

Can we change it by editing this line?

Thanks and best regards

Silas

seth_coussens · October 2017

@joivan_hedrick
see above

damon_mulligan · February 2018

@Silas_Sulser

Comment out this section to remove default to Asset Search in the initSearch.js file.:
Or you can delete.

function init (searchInput) {

if (session.user.AssetManager === 1) {

customSearchHardwareAsset.initSearch(searchInput);

/* Comment Out Starts Here

// set Hardware Asset search as default if user is hardware asset manager

var currentURL = window.location.href;

var searchParam = $("input[name=search_param]"); //the hidden field which holds the search type id

var searchConcept = $("span[id=search_concept]"); //the span field which displays the search type value

searchParam.val("HardwareAsset");

searchConcept.html('Hardware Asset');

Comment Out Ends Here*/

}

};

Mark_Geary · November 2018

HI this has stopped working in the new version of the portal any ideas on how we can fix this?

Michael_McAllister · November 2018

Mark_Geary said:

HI this has stopped working in the new version of the portal any ideas on how we can fix this?

This has stopped working for us as well on 8.9.5. As far as I can tell, the javascript and SQL are both working correctly as the search shows up, it just doesn't return any results. Ran the query manually against the database and it returns just fine. Only thing I can think of is that it's related to the API being changed?

I'll report back if we find out anything else new.

joivan_hedrick · November 2018

We're looking into this one, but we do have an interim workaround. In the SQL query that is defined in the datasource, If you replace the parameter name with all upper case characters, this should allow the API call to return results as expected. e.g. change:

WHERE HWA.DisplayName like '{{assetSearchTerm}}'

to

WHERE HWA.DisplayName like '{{ASSETSEARCHTERM}}'

Alex_Marsh · November 2018

Tried the fix as mentioned for the user search however it's just returning undefined for all of the results. I can only assume there's been an API change of some description which isn't presenting the results correctly

Roland_Kind · November 2018

maybe the following will help:

returned field names are all in uppercase: https://support.cireson.com/Problem/Edit/PR79162/

Alex_Marsh · November 2018

That'll be it then! I'll have to amend the returned field names to capitals until it's resolved

Creighton_Barnes · December 2018

Glad I found this thread. Is there any thoughts on Cireson just adding a search to the product by default? Seems like a no brainer feature I didn't know wasn't there till I was neck deep in configuring CAM.