How to add a new business object to Universal Search in Acumatica - acumatica

Question

I have been able to add additional search fields to existing entities in the universal search of Acumatica. However, adding a similar definition to NoteID on a custom table does not add the object to the Rebuild Full-Text Entity Index screen and does not make the custom data searchable.
I added a one-to-many list of selectable attributes to my Stock Items screen, and the values need to be included in the universal search. The syntax on the NoteID field looks identical to other source code, and the code compiles cleanly.
It appears the entities to be included are returned by PXSearchableAttribute.GetAllSearchableEntities(), but it does not appear to be in source code to see how this works. Are the entities fixed, or can I add my own for universal search?
How do I get data from my custom table to be searchable?

Answer 1

Full-Text Entity Index requires the entity to have a NoteID field, decorated with the usual PXNote attribute as well as PXSearchable. Here's an example coming from the APInvoice DAC:
[PXSearchable(SM.SearchCategory.AP, "AP {0}: {1} - {3}", new Type[] { typeof(APInvoice.docType), typeof(APInvoice.refNbr), typeof(APInvoice.vendorID), typeof(Vendor.acctName) },
new Type[] { typeof(APInvoice.invoiceNbr), typeof(APInvoice.docDesc)},
NumberFields = new Type[] { typeof(APInvoice.refNbr) },
Line1Format = "{0:d}{1}{2}", Line1Fields = new Type[] { typeof(APInvoice.docDate), typeof(APInvoice.status), typeof(APInvoice.invoiceNbr) },
Line2Format = "{0}", Line2Fields = new Type[] { typeof(APInvoice.docDesc) },
MatchWithJoin = typeof(InnerJoin<Vendor, On<Vendor.bAccountID, Equal<APInvoice.vendorID>>>),
SelectForFastIndexing = typeof(Select2<APInvoice, InnerJoin<Vendor, On<APInvoice.vendorID, Equal<Vendor.bAccountID>>>>)
)]
[PXNote(ShowInReferenceSelector = true)]
public override Guid? NoteID
The GetAllSearchableEntities function does nothing more than looping through every table using ServiceManager.TableList, and looking for note fields that are decorated with the expected attributes. The table list is cached on application startup, so depending on how you published your changes a reload may not have been completed. If you have already configured your field as described above, you could try doing iisreset from the command-line to see if it solves your problem.