Create Custom Search Function

Question

Does anyone know how to create cutom search function in new desktop ?
The custom search will be simliar to right pane search, as attached photo.

The current M-Files Desktop Version Number: 22.12.12140.4

Craig Hawker · Accepted Answer

I know that max.pang@nikoyo.com tagged Joonas, but I also know that Joonas is out of the office this week. I hope that me answering helps in some way. 
 I'm assuming that you've looked at all of the out-of-the-box search options including faceted search and decided that these are not good enough? 
 There's no built-in way to create a custom search UI in the way you've highlighted. If you wanted to create something like this then you would need to build it from scratch using the User Interface Extensibility Framework . Depending upon the type of search conditions you need to create, this could be relatively straight-forward or it could be exceptionally complex. 
 Once you have the UI built then you have various options to actually get the search run. If you only care about the desktop then the approach I've used before is to create a temporary view containing the search conditions, then tell the listing to navigate to it. From recollection there are a couple of quirks you have to work around (e.g. the temporary view needs to have a unique name), but the general approach works. 
 I have also sent a link to this conversation to the product owner for searching, to see whether he has any additional guidance or comments.

Create Custom Search Function

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