About Us Cognos Consulting Cognos Training Product Info Trainer's Talk Press Releases Online Seminars Newsletter Contact Us	Trainer's Talk ADDING SEARCH FUNCTIONALITY TO YOUR CUSTOM REPORTNET APPLICATION Applies to Cognos ReportNet SDK - ASP.Net with VB.Net Synopsis So, you want to add some search functionality to your custom ReportNet Application? Solution Fortunately, if you are already able to query the content store and list reports, then you are well on your way. All we need to do to get started is send a text item to your page containing the text for which you would like to search. ‘We retrieve the text item: Dim srchPath As String = Request.Form("sPath") ‘Next, we apply the Boolean Function "contains" SrchPath = "//report[contains(@name,'" & srchPath & "')]" ‘Now, we query the content store as we would normally. 'Set the properties for the query of the content store Dim properties(5) As propEnum properties(0) = propEnum.defaultName properties(1) = propEnum.defaultOutputFormat properties(2) = propEnum.searchPath properties(3) = propEnum.defaultDescription properties(4) = propEnum.objectClass properties(5) = propEnum.target Dim sortBy(2) As sort sortBy(1) = New sort sortBy(1).order = orderEnum.ascending sortBy(1).propName = propEnum.defaultName 'Query the content store Dim results As baseClass() Try     results = oCrn.query(srchPath, properties, sortBy, New queryOptions) Catch er     Response.Write("#1 Err desc = " & er.Message & "<BR>")     Response.Flush() End Try Dim rLen As Integer rLen = UBound(results) Dim i as integer For i = 0 To rLen     Dim curRes = results(i)     Response.Write curRes.defaultName.value & "<BR>" End If What we have done is ask for all reports that contain our search item in the name. There is full documentation in the ReportNet Developer’s guide about other properties that are searchable. Hope this helps. Happy coding. Questions Have a question for our trainers? Click here to send your questions!