I’m using a combobox in a browse dialog that is populated by a Enum and setting the initial search value to the Enum I want to search on.  When I run the program the initial value for the combo box along with other search criteria that I’ve defined is displayed. What I’d like to to do is prevent the user from changing the initial value I specified for the combo box and limit their selection to the other search criteria. I tried un-checking the Visible property on the Search Field Criteria window figuring this is what it is intended for. However when Visible is un-checked the Initial Search Value is not set and I end up with a conversion for type ‘DBNull’ to type ‘Integer’ exception since I have no matching Enum for the value zero. To me it would make the browse dialog more useful if it set the search field to the initial search value specified when the field is not visible to the user.

-Larry

It has been reqested several times that the search will include "non-visible" fields with search values.  At present this functionality does not exist.  It is on our enhancement lists, but as to when this feature (if ever) may make it into the framework I do not know.