When you invoke a search in the MSW/PSW, the system displays a dialog box to show that a data retrieval is in process. To display the time remaining to complete the data retrieval in the dialog box, set the Display Search Progress field to Yes in the MSW Search Preferences window in the Options drop-down. Setting this field to Yes, however, can impact performance. Regardless of the setting of this field, you can cancel the search at any time by pressing the Cancel button in the dialog box.

The system displays a message when the number of records you are attempting to display exceeds the maximum.

In the Search Panel, you can specify a range of sites, scheduler IDs, resources, resource types, and more. When you enter a range of resource IDs as search criteria, you can specify a resource type of 0 (zero) for production lines or 1 for work centers. Specifying a resource type can improve the search performance of the MSW/PSW, in particular when you are interested in retrieving data only for production lines. This is because it prevents retrieval of data for the resource type that is not of interest. For more information on the search panel, see (1) Search Panel.

To avoid performance issues, QAD recommends that you specify a particular resource type and a single or range of scheduler IDs and/or production lines for the search.