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Log View Data to Search Tab

The Data to search tab is the third of five tabs when you add or manage a Log View. It decides which events are in scope at all: only events that belong to the Repository Model entities and Log Agents you pick. A Log View for the order team that searches only the order Message Types is faster, and shows nothing it shouldn't.

Understanding the Data to search tab

graph LR EV["fa:fa-bolt All Log Events"] --> MT{"fa:fa-file Message Types
MT1 OR MT2"} MT -->|AND| EP{"fa:fa-sign-in-alt Endpoints
EP1 OR EP2"} EP -->|AND| OT{"fa:fa-cube Systems, Services,
Integrations, Log Agents"} OT --> LV["fa:fa-hard-drive Events the Log View searches"] style EV fill:#9E59BB,color:#fff style LV fill:#2678BD,color:#fff

Items of one type combine with OR; the types combine with AND. A type with no items doesn't filter.

The count of one order's events drops with one Message Type, rises with a second, and drops again with an Endpoint, animated walkthrough (7.12)
Animated walkthrough: OR within a type, AND between types, counted on one order.

  1. Search the order ORD-10004 in a Log View with nothing on the Data to search tab: 34 events, every step of the order.
  2. On Data to search, click Edit on Message Types and tick O2C.Order.Received/1.0: 3 events, only the received orders.
  3. Tick a second Message Type, O2C.Order.Invoice/1.0: 5 events. Two Message Types combine with OR.
  4. Click Edit on Endpoints and tick ERP-Finance-Invoice-Send: 2 events. The Endpoint combines with the Message Types with AND, so only the invoices remain.

After each change, click Confirm and close and Save and show, and search again.

Card Narrows to events of
Integrations The business integration flows you pick, such as Order Processing
Systems / Services The source or destination Systems, and the integration Services
Message Types / Endpoints The message formats, and the receive ports, send ports, or API endpoints
Log Agents The data sources that logged them

Data to search tab with the explanation box and the Integrations, Systems / Services, Message Types / Endpoints, and Log Agents cards, nine O2C Message Types selected (7.12)
The box at the top repeats the rule: AND between types, OR within a type.

Note

If you add one Message Type and one Endpoint, an event must match both. If you add a second Message Type, an event matches either Message Type. With Visible in search checked, users may leave items out of their search.

Try the Search criteria tab first: Search Fields and Restrictions are often the simpler way to narrow a Log View.

Each card has a Visible in search checkbox at the bottom: Integrations, Systems, Services, Message Types, Endpoints, and Log Agents. With it checked, the Log View's search gets a collapsible panel for that type, such as Message Types (3), with All and Selected tabs, a filter, and Select All / Unselect All.

The panel lists only the items of the Log View, all ticked. Users untick what to leave out, and the search uses only the ticked items. They can narrow the scope, never widen it: items outside the Log View are never offered.

Check Visible in search on the Message Types card, then untick one Message Type in the Log View's search, animated walkthrough (7.12)
Animated walkthrough: users leave the received orders out and keep the deliveries and invoices.

  1. On the Data to search tab, the Message Types card holds three Message Types.
  2. Check Visible in search on that card and click Save and show.
  3. In the Log View, open the new Message Types (3) panel and untick O2C.Order.Received/1.0.
  4. Type the order number ORD-10004 and click Search. Only the deliveries and invoices are listed.

Assign entries

Click Edit on a card, filter, tick the items, and click Confirm and close. Each name links to the item, with a new-tab icon.

Systems

Assign Systems dialog for the Log View, filtered on Contoso (7.12)
Filter Log Events by source or destination Systems.

Endpoints

Assign Endpoints dialog with the Direction, Endpoint Type, and Log Agent filters and the URI column (7.12)
Filter on Direction, Endpoint Type, or Log Agent.

Integrations

Assign Integrations dialog for the Log View, filtered on Contoso (7.12)
Tick the Integrations to include.

Log Agents

Assign Log Agents dialog with the Log Agent Value filter (7.12)
Tick the Log Agents to include.

Message Types

Assign Message Types dialog with the nine O2C Message Types ticked (7.12)
Tick the Message Types to include.

Services

Assign Services dialog with the Direction and System filters and a System column (7.12)
Filter on Direction or System.

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