topic REST Find Task Does Not Always Find With Empty Search Fields in ArcGIS Enterprise Questions https://community.esri.com/t5/arcgis-enterprise-questions/rest-find-task-does-not-always-find-with-empty/m-p/610011#M23453 <HTML><HEAD></HEAD><BODY><SPAN>On the REST endpoint I open up the "Find" operation for a MapServer service.&nbsp; I put in the "Search Text" of "6" and for "Layers" specify "4".&nbsp; I hit "Find (GET)" and receive "No results found".&nbsp; I know this layer has a feature with a 6 in some of the fields, so I then add one of the field names to "Search Fields"... It finds all three features I was expecting then.&nbsp; According to the documentation, if "Search Fields" is blank it will search all.&nbsp; Now this is not always the case though, If I remove the "Search Fields" and search for text such as "BP" then it finds that in some of the string fields.</SPAN><BR /><BR /><SPAN>Is this a known bug?&nbsp; Something to do with searching Double fields?&nbsp; Any workarounds short of adding all the fields to the "Search Fields" list?</SPAN><BR /><BR /><SPAN>Thanks a lot!</SPAN></BODY></HTML> Thu, 07 Feb 2013 20:00:55 GMT RyanCoodey 2013-02-07T20:00:55Z REST Find Task Does Not Always Find With Empty Search Fields https://community.esri.com/t5/arcgis-enterprise-questions/rest-find-task-does-not-always-find-with-empty/m-p/610011#M23453 <HTML><HEAD></HEAD><BODY><SPAN>On the REST endpoint I open up the "Find" operation for a MapServer service.&nbsp; I put in the "Search Text" of "6" and for "Layers" specify "4".&nbsp; I hit "Find (GET)" and receive "No results found".&nbsp; I know this layer has a feature with a 6 in some of the fields, so I then add one of the field names to "Search Fields"... It finds all three features I was expecting then.&nbsp; According to the documentation, if "Search Fields" is blank it will search all.&nbsp; Now this is not always the case though, If I remove the "Search Fields" and search for text such as "BP" then it finds that in some of the string fields.</SPAN><BR /><BR /><SPAN>Is this a known bug?&nbsp; Something to do with searching Double fields?&nbsp; Any workarounds short of adding all the fields to the "Search Fields" list?</SPAN><BR /><BR /><SPAN>Thanks a lot!</SPAN></BODY></HTML> Thu, 07 Feb 2013 20:00:55 GMT https://community.esri.com/t5/arcgis-enterprise-questions/rest-find-task-does-not-always-find-with-empty/m-p/610011#M23453 RyanCoodey 2013-02-07T20:00:55Z