Implementing Search Using MessageChoice - Help

Question

Hello all,
I'm trying to implement a search operation for a Master-Detail Page.
For which I've 2 MessageChoice's and a MessageTextInput.
1) The first MessageChoice (Parent) represents the Table or View.
2) The second MessageChoice (Child) represent the field or Attribute name of a particular table or view.
3) The MessageTextInput would be for the user to enter the value for the search.
Consider that my Master Detail is based on the Departments-Employees Scenario.
Now for the MessageChoices I've created a Parent-child relationship based on this Post.
Re: Parent-Child using <messageChoice> to <table>
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My Problem is that after following the steps mentioned in this link I don't have a "NAME" property in the Property Inspector for the messageChoice. It is only based on this "NAME" property that I can perform the search operation by writing an appropriate method in the application module Class. For an ordinary MessageChoice there is a property called "NAME" but in this case when i drag an drop an attribute as a messageChoice it's not there. If I try to manually include it... the whole parent-child relationship fails to work.
I would like to know whether there is any other way of identifying the MessageChoice's or is there any other way of implementing the search. Thanks in advance.
Regards,
Arun.V

Answer 1

[EasyFind|http://www.devon-technologies.com/products/freeware/index.html] can do this, though it's a lot slower than Spotlight.
You can probably do it in Spotlight as well, but I think you need a "Raw Query" search, which is pretty clumsy. I believe that the Spotlight/Finder "friendly" interface implicitly uses all three of these search modifier options listed in Apple's [Spotlight Query Programming Guide|http://developer.apple.com/library/mac/#documentation/Carbon/Conceptual/S potlightQuery/Concepts/QueryFormat.html]:
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The standard search options don't provide for changing this, but a Raw Query search which uses just dw as the modifiers instead of cdw should be case-sensitive. To set this up you could start with a Finder window, type command-F, set the search scope at the top to "Contents, set Kind to "Other" and choose Raw Query, then enter the following in the text entry box:
kMDItemTextContent == "THIS TEXT AS IT APPEARS HERE"dw
I've tried this in Snow Leopard and it seems to work - I don't have a Leopard system to test it on. You could substitute any string of your choice between the quotes, and can include wildcards by using the * character. Having to enter "kMDItemTextContent == " is clumsy, though, and EasyFind might be a better choice.