Global Search

Business Central ships powerful filtering, but it is page-bound: you have to already be on the right list before you can search it. Power users who live in large datasets pay for that every day — hopping between Customers, Items, Sales Orders, Vendor Ledger Entries and Posted Invoices just to confirm one value.

Global Search is a custom AL extension that adds a single, always-available search box. Type a name, document number, item reference, posting amount or partial string, and it queries across the table scopes you configure — returning grouped, ranked hits that link straight to the source record (Card or Document page) via the standard Page.Run navigation.

How it is built

This is a per-tenant extension authored in AL and deployed to your environment — not an instant AppSource download. ECOSIRE builds it against your object model: a search engine codeunit that runs SetFilter / FindSet passes across registered tables, a Role Center part and page action for the search box, table-metadata–driven field discovery, and event subscribers so new records are indexed on insert/modify. Fuzzy and partial matching are handled with normalized token comparison so "Acme Trdng" still finds "Acme Trading Co." Search history and per-user favorites persist in a dedicated table, gated by a custom permission set so each user only searches data they are licensed to see.

Honest delivery

ECOSIRE scopes the searchable tables and fields with you, builds the extension, installs it on your sandbox for UAT, then publishes to production. You get the source .app and AL project, documentation, and ongoing support. It runs entirely inside Business Central (cloud SaaS or on-prem), with optional OData/REST exposure if you want the same search surfaced in Power Platform.