You can use advanced search syntax to search for entries associated with a business process. Specifically you can search for entries by the business process's name, status, and start or completed date. All advanced search types can be customized with advanced search operators and wildcards. When using this advanced search syntax, the name and status of the business process must be enclosed by quotation marks.
All entries associated with a specified business process
- {LF:BPName="BusinessProcessName"}
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- The following sample search will find all documents and folders associated with the New Employee business process.
- The following search will return all entries associated with both the New Employee and Update Benefit business processes.
- The following search will return all entries associated with either the New Employee or Update Benefits business processes.
{LF:BPName="New Employee"}
{LF:BPName="New Employee"} & {LF:BPName="Update Benefits"}
{LF:BPName="New Employee"} | {LF:BPName="Update Benefits"}
All entries that have a certain business process instance status
- {LF:BPEStatus="Status"}
All entries associated with business process instances that started, completed, or started or completed in a specific time frame
- Start date: {LF:BPEStartDate="mm/dd/yyyy"} or {LF:BPEStartDate="mm/dd/yy"} or {LF:BPEStartDate="mm/yyyy"} or {LF:BPEStartDate="mm/yy"}
- Completed date: {LF:BPECompletedDate="mm/dd/yyyy"} or {LF:BPECompletedDate="mm/dd/yy"} or {LF:BPECompletedDate="mm/yyyy"} or {LF:BPECompletedDate="mm/yy"}
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The following sample search will find all entries associated with a business process that started or completed the week of March 16, 2012.
({LF:BPEStartDate>="3/16/2012"} & {LF:BPEStartDate<="3/22/2012"}) | ({LF:BPECompletedDate>="3/16/2012"} & {LF:BPECompletedDate<="3/22/2012"})
Note: The order in which the month, day, and year should be specified is determined by the short date format configured on your workstation (access Regional and Language Options from the Control Panel).