Configuring search in custom mobile apps
To help enhance the overall user experience, you can configure mobile search in a custom mobile app. You can modify how the online search is handled, provide search categories, and define the default icon to use for the search.
Note: Using the mobile search capability in a custom mobile app requires UI Kit 12 or
higher.
- In Dev Studio, open the pySearchConfiguration rule, and specialize or check in the rule. Remember that only the pySearchConfiguration identifier is permitted.
- In the Online search configuration section, in the field enter the minimum number of characters that must be entered by a user to begin the search in the mobile app.
- Optional: Configure categories for the mobile search capability.
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In the Advanced section, specify the default icon to use
when no icons are used for search categories.
- Click the Configuration icon.
- In the Image catalog field enter a catalog or image name.
- Click Find to locate an image to use as a default icon.
- Select an image and click OK.
- Click Save.