Visualforce - Beyond Basics Series 50 - Easy Global Search

What is Global Search ?

In Salesforce, there's a standard global search functionality at the top Header. This will search all the text, email, phone fields in Objects & list them.

How to implement one ?

If you want to implement one, it's simple to do so. we need to use SOSL for fuzzy search on fields in specific objects.

Where is the Code ?

	<apex:page controller="testclass1_23022017">
	<apex:sectionHeader title="Global Search Box"/>
	<apex:form >
	<apex:outputLabel value="Enter you search text here "/>
	<apex:inputText value="{!searchStr}"/>
	<apex:commandButton value="Go" action="{!startSearch}" rerender="DisplayArea"/>
	</apex:form>
	<apex:outputPanel id="DisplayArea">
	<apex:outputPanel rendered="{!results != Null}">
	<apex:pageBlock >
	<!-- For each Object, like Account, Opportunity, Product2 -->
	<apex:repeat value="{!results}" var="objName">
	<apex:sectionHeader subtitle="{!objName}"/>
	<!-- For each row -->
	<apex:pageBlockTable value="{!results[objName]}" var="rec" >
	<!-- For each field -->
	<apex:repeat value="{!rec}" var="field">
	<apex:column value="{!rec[field]}" headerValue="{!field}"/>
	</apex:repeat>
	</apex:pageBlockTable>
	</apex:repeat>
	</apex:pageBlock>
	</apex:outputPanel>
	</apex:outputPanel>
	</apex:page>

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	public class testclass1_23022017 {
	/* VF Bindings */
	Public String searchStr{get;set;}
	Public Map<String, List<Map<String, String>>> results {get;set;}
	/* Action Function */
	public void startSearch() {
	List<List<sObject>> lsResults = [
	FIND
	:searchStr
	IN
	ALL FIELDS
	RETURNING
	Account(Name, Type),
	Opportunity(Name, StageName),
	Product2(Name, ProductCode)
	];
	Map<String, List<String>> objNamesAndFields = new Map<String, List<String>>{
	'Account' => new List<String>{ 'Name', 'Type'},
	'Opportunity' => new List<String>{ 'Name', 'StageName'},
	'Product2' => new List<String>{ 'Name', 'ProductCode'}};
	results = new Map<String, List<Map<String, String>>>();
	Integer count = 0;
	for (String objName : objNamesAndFields.keySet()) {
	results.put(objName, new List<Map<String, String>>());
	for (Integer idx = 0; idx < lsResults[count].size(); idx++) {
	Map<String, String> recMap = new Map<String, String>();
	for (String field : objNamesAndFields.get(objName)) {
	recMap.put(field, (String) lsResults[count][idx].get(field));
	}
	results.get(objName).add(recMap);
	}
	count++;
	}
	}
	}

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