Drilldown Searches and Free-Form Searches

[Former Member]

Hi All

can you please let me know <b>concept</b> of Drilldown Searches and Free-Form Searches ?

I read documentation in help portal.

Can you kindly focus more light on these concepts with some example

Thanks in advance

Mugdha Kulkarni

[former_member189059]

In short

Freeform search is a brute force type of search

Drill down search is a more organised way of searching

[Former Member]

Hi Mugdha,

MDM provides two types of searches:

<b>Drilldown Search:</b>

With drilldown search, you can make selections from each search tab, where each tab corresponds to a lookup field in the table

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You can also make selections for each of the attributes linked to the selected category, and each of the qualifiers of a qualified table record.

<b>Freeform Search:</b>

With free-form search, you can perform searches on any field that does not lookup its values from a sub table.

Free-form search also allows you to do “fuzzy” searches with a variety of search operators

It accepts typed values for one or more fields (like a traditional DBMS query form) and a keyword search that can match keywords in any or all of the fields in a table.

At each step along the way, the system narrows down the choice of values for each search dimension to show only those that are valid given the current result set based on the previous search selections.

The result is an extremely flexible and powerful search capability, delivered through an exceptionally smooth and intuitive process.

Hope this clears your doubts.

Regards,

Rashmi Jadhav