Adding a New Search Attribute

You can customize the attributes on which you would like to search work items.

Procedure

  1. Identify the name of the search attribute. The name must be an attribute name in the repository.
  2. Identify the workflow and the work item activity to which this parameter should be added.
  3. You can find the workflow files in $MQ_COMMON_DIR/standard/workflow/ folder. You need to look for the workflow that creates the work item.
  4. Define the parameter as follows. Use uppercase for the name of the attribute. If there is already a record attribute parameter defined, add a running number as in *RecordAttributeName1*. 
    <Parameter direction="in" name="RecordAttributeName" type="String” eval="constant">ATTRIBUTENAME</Parameter>