Search Enhancement: Showing Related Result Items on Selection

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Hello.

Hope you’re doing well.

I’ve been exploring the features we’re aiming to integrate into the Milestone plugin through custom development.

From our analysis of the default SCSearchAgent plugin sample, we observed that it performs a search (e.g., for animals) when the search button is clicked, displays the results in the Result Area, and shows detailed information in the Details and Item Preview areas when a result item is selected.

For our specific requirements, I have a couple of questions:

- Is it possible to display not only the selected result’s details in the Details Area but also show 10 additional similar or matching records in a horizontally scrollable slider below it?

- Can we enable functionality to allow a selected object from the Result Area to be added to the Scope Selection or Category Selection?

We would appreciate your guidance on the best approach to implement this functionality.

Looking forward to your insights on this.

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Any key-value pair that is added to the Properties collection of the SearchResultData instance will be displayed by the Smart Client in the Details Area. Unfortunately it is not possible to do other changes to the Details Area.

From the Result Area it would only be possible to trigger any code with Custom Action, but it would not be possible to directly affect Scope or Category Selection from here (see https://doc.developer.milestonesys.com/html/gettingstarted/intro_searchagent.html#_Adding_Custom_Actions).