Search in ADF does not work

Question

Hello.
I have created a search form with two iterators one for the results and the other for the search criteria. The search form works as expected. The name of the view that i am using is "MasterPartyView1". When i execute the following code
ViewObject voMasterParty = appMod.findViewObject("MasterPartyView1");
voMasterParty.setWhereClause("Id = " + MasterPartyId);
voMasterParty.executeQuery();
Row rowDest = voMasterParty.first();
in a backing bean and i go to the search form the only result that i a have is the row that i found in this statement (voMasterParty.setWhereClause("Id = " + MasterPartyId);).
Why is that?The adf search does not go every time in the database to fetch rows?
the only workaround for the moment is that i put these two extra lines in the backing bean
voMasterParty.setWhereClause(null);
voMasterParty.executeQuery();
which is not correct because i am fetching all the rows from the database i think.
Thank you in advance
Periklis

Answer 1

Frank thanks a lot for your answer but i still have some questions.
1 question: One workaround that i found is to the search with the view named MasterPartyView1 and have another instance of the view object(MasterPartyView2) in order to perform the custom search(setwhereclause).This seems to work. Is this approach correct?
2 question: if i understood correctly you say that both iterators point to the result set of the query (one row) and such is not possible to find other rows. But in the search form there is an invoke action
<invokeAction id="AlwaysInFindMode" Binds="Find"
RefreshCondition="${bindings.MasterPartyView1SearchIterator.findMode == false}"/>
that to my understanding puts the iterator in Find mode, thus making the input text fields available for criteria again. So the search iterator now points to QBE and it is possible to iterate over a collection of QBE criteria rows. is this correct?And if it is why it does not work as expected?Why it does not bring other results?Why the iterators (the seach iterator and the results iterator) still point to the newly created result set?
Thanks in advance
Periklis