searchElements: Input Items

In this section, you can find the descriptions of the input items for the searchElements operation depending on the value you select on the General tab.

The following table provides the descriptions of all the input items:

Input Item Data Type Required Description
requestHeader Complex No The request message header.

For descriptions of all the attributes in this element, see Attributes in requestHeader.

elementName String No Provide AFElement name you want to search.

While searching the AFElement, you can use regular expression too.

elementSearchRoot String No Provide AFElement search root.

It does not support regular expression.

fetchAllDescendants Boolean No Provide AFElement search criteria to get all descendants or not.

By default this value is true.

templateName String No Provide AFElement template name that you used to create an AFElement on the PI AF server.
categoryName String No Provide AFElement category name you used while creating the AFElement.
elementType String No Provide AFElement type you selected while creating an AFElement.

Supported types in this field are Element, Element Boundary,Element Flow, Element Node, Element Measurement, and Element Other.

For more information, see the AF SDK documentation.