What is the benefit of search modifier of Item attribute ?

[Former Member]

Hello Expert,

I need to clear under stand about behavior of modifier search in the Items XML.

Here : I'm able to perform search on an attribute when I set it to false.

[arvind-kumar_avinash]

You can not have an attribute with search="false" for which you have declared unique="true".

Otherwise, you will get an exception like

 java.lang.IllegalStateException: Attribute xxxxxxx.xxxxxxx is unique and not searchable. Please declare it in your items.xml file as not unique (unique='false') or as searchable (search='true').

[former_member661316]

Attributes with persistence type set to 'jalo' and search="false" can not be searchable.