Hi @Fgray09,

Please attach a screenshot of your shipments window (if possible) and mentioned the current IFS Apps 10 UPD that you’re currently working with.

Regards,

Nikila Dissanayake

Good morning Nikila, the issue is the Cloud environment = 

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Dear @Fgray09,

In your first screenshot, you have unchecked the searchable option for the Next step in the Shipment flow. Please navigate to the page designer and checked that field and save the record. Then it’ll be showing as available in the Search functionality from the header level.

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Regards,

Nikila Dissanayake 

Hi, yes I understand that you can add it as searchable - but this is a standard searchable field in previous environments. 

Changing it to searchable in IFS Cloud is a simple fix but requires a manual change and the change is required on each environment available to the Customer, will the change map across when an update is performed?

My query is - Is there any expectation for this to be made searchable as standard in the application.

@Fgray09

Hi,

As per the IFS Cloud 23R1 core, this can be recreated as well.  Seems like they didn’t add it as a searchable option on the header level. Better you raise a support case as this needs to be verified with the product development team.

Regards,

Nikila 

Thanks Nikila

Hi

My guess is that this is due to potential performance issue. The Next Step in The Shipment Flow field is not a stored field, it is a calculated field. It might work for some customer to search on this but not for others with higher volume. Therefore this has to be added by each customer on their own risk.

Best Regards

Fredrik

For what it’s worth, I added this as an idea as many customers I work with are not a fan of not being able to query using a defined list of values.  

The 'Next Step in Shipment Flow' field is not a stored field; it is determined by a PL/SQL method call, the same method used to decide which commands to enable in the shipment. Performance could be adversely affected when searching against calculated fields. Originally, this field was added only to the 'Shipment' page to provide a better view of progress and was not made searchable due to potential performance impacts. However, since there were requests to make it searchable, it was also added to the 'Shipments' page as well. Subsequently, the search capability was removed after customers raised concerns about poor performance. Therefore, it is required a major redesign to use a stored field when searching. This is the explanation from R&D regarding this concern.