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Status Not under consideration
Workspace Content Navigator
Created by Guest
Created on Nov 6, 2023

Add group feature in ICN search templates

The customer is designing search templates in ICN where we are using the "Add Group" functionality to add different groups in the search criteria so as to have the "Or match all of these properties" condition between the groups. For the above functionality, They have 2 queries:

1.) We have to apply OR condition between properties, however some properties are common which need to be added in all the groups. Is there any way we can add the common properties only once? We have seen that this only gives appropriate results if we add the common properties with operator as "CONTAINS". As seen in screenshot1 - "Document Title" and "Reference" are added separately as they are common properties, however it only gives appropriate results if we add then as "CONTAINS" operator.

2) When we see these templates in the Edit mode, we can see the proper differentation of the groups as shown in screenshot 2.However, in non edit mode there is no way to identify which are the different groups created. Is there any way to distinguish between different groups in non edit mode as this is a concern by users. This second ask is reflected in CSNAV-I-316 as a defect.

They asked if it is possible to customise the search template UI so that the groups created are visible to the users?


Idea priority Low