Are Change Tasks really not searchable Objects?

[Lohbauer]

I have not been able to find a clean was to simply search for a Change Task by Task number outside of Query builder. The Change Task is not an object available in the Advanced Search. My recommendation is to make a Change Task Object searchable. To locate a task by Change Notice Implementation Plan is a long way round.

[mrane]

Hi Robert,

There might be a good reason for not making the 'Change Task' searchable OOTB. Are you looking for a way to customize the type picker on the advanced search page such that it shows 'Change Task ' ? And one could fire a search for the same.

-Malavika

[MikeLockwood]

You can add Change Activity (aka Change Task) to the list of object types that can be searched.

CS128429

[mrane]

A similar case specifically for Change objects is : CS115184

[Lohbauer · Accepted solution]

Thanks to James Paschetto of PTC for providing the answer. Yes, Change Tasks are searchable objects, but not by default. You need to update the site.xconf file by adding the following line:

<AddToProperty name="PDMLink.allSearch" value="wt.change2.WTChangeActivity2"/>

Then propagate the changes through xconfmanager and restart your method server. It worked for me.