Tutorials > Management Center > Extend simple search in the Catalogs tool
Summary: Extending simple search in the Catalogs tool
This tutorial demonstrates how to extend the simple search in the Catalogs tool of the Management Center, by reusing an existing WebSphere Commerce data service layer query.
Lessons learned
After completing this tutorial you should be able to:
- Configure parametric search to include custom tables
- Update the search widget in the Catalogs tool to include new search definition
- Create a new controller JSP file to retrieve and mediate the Management Center object
- Create a new ExpressionBuilder in get-data-config.xml to invoke the new query and pass query parameters.
Additional resources
- Changing the search definition for a Management Center object
- Parametric search support
- Data service layer query processing
- WebSphere Commerce extended XPath notation
- Overriding generated parametric search SQL