Search Page question - view criteria

Question

Guys,
I am in the process of creating a search page. I need to change the search criteria on the page load. is it possible? (is this good practice to change view criteria dynamically of the search page or is it s good practice to create different search pages for each view criteria?)
Little more detail:
In entity edit page user selects the process---> based on the process i need to apply search criteria (before search page loads) --> user selects the entity and i need to show confirm message before calling stored procedure.
Thank you guys in advance...
-Raj

Answer 1

polo wrote:
I am in the process of creating a search page. I need to change the search criteria on the page load. is it possible? (is this good practice to change view criteria dynamically of the search page or is it s good practice to create different search pages for each view criteria?)If you want to apply criteria values, this is OK. How do you navigate to the search page? Usually you have an initialization method that runs before the page is displayed. In the initialization method you apply the criteria values and you execute the View object query.