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Search option to choose data type for attribute of the entity
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Service Studio
Development Environment 11.55.39 (Build 64352)

At enterprise, you have more than 100 entities in general and when you scale your application, you add more but when we assign the relationship with other foreign entity, it become difficult to search by scrolling the whole list of attribute and find the appropriate one. Sometimes, we choose the incorrect one because they are very close. It would be helpful to have the search option for choosing the appropriate datatype for that attribute of entity. 

Hi Manish,

Perhaps you already know this but you can already do this with a few more clicks;

1. Double-click on the "Data Type" field (the left part of the table, not the selected data type field)

2. The following screen appears;

3. Click on the Data Type name (Text in this case)

4. The following screen appears;

In here you have a search field where your can filter the data types. I use this a lot but I also upped this idea because I want that search in the Data Type dropdown box. That would be much easier.

Hi Vincent,

Thanks for your Upped :) but the example you have shown above is choosing the data type of input parameter or local variable not the data type of entity attribute.

 I know that option is available but i am talking about searching the data type for attribute of entity.

Please refer my screen shot below:

Even if you click on the left hand side of data type no pop up will open for search.

 

I know this is not a good practice to keep 100 of tables in single module but in order to design the data model for reference, we used to search those entity attributes for relationship purpose only.

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Service Studio
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Implemented
on 15 Sep 2025

Hi everyone,

This is actually already available! Service Studio version 11.55.39 and ODC Studio version 1.5.39. Updating the app

Merged this idea with 'Searchbar to find specific data type' (created on 19 May 2021 09:52:01 by Najamul Din)

User should be able to find data type using searchbar, Currently filter with keys does not work properly when you have many identifiers. 

Hi Najam,

Search on Basic Types, Entity identifiers is already build it the platform for a very long time:

Merged this idea with 'Add dialogue window for data type selections' (created on 02 Aug 2024 15:54:52 by Daniel Johnson)

I don't understand why the data type property doesn't get its own dialogue window. Instead I get this when I double click:

It's super annoying to pick a data type from that dropdown, but even more so when I'm working on my laptop.