# Record search A React block (a whole screen) in [Beamline](https://beamline.io/)'s [Shop](https://beamline.io/components/apps/shop) app. Live demo: https://beamline.io/components/record-search One search across connected records (customers, vehicles, orders) by name, phone, plate, VIN or order number. What the words look like is said (info). Results grouped by kind with counts and a kind filter; each with its title, a line under it and the field it matched, the matched text marked even across spaces and punctuation. The highlighted result's context beside the list: a customer's vehicles and open orders, a vehicle's owner and open order, an order's status (overdue on warning, paid on success, open on info), due date and total; Open. Up and down move the highlight from the search field, Enter opens it; only the latest words' answer is shown; nothing matching and before typing are said. ## Use it for - Finding the right record across several kinds from whatever the caller gives (a phone, a plate, a number), with enough context to pick without opening. - A service desk's single search field. ## Not for - Searching documents by fields and references ([document-finder](https://beamline.io/components/document-finder)). - A command palette of actions ([command-menu](https://beamline.io/components/command-menu)). ## Anatomy - header: the tool's mark, Search - bar: the search field (how the arrow keys move is its description to screen readers), what the words look like - kinds: All and each kind with counts - results: grouped by kind, each with its match marked - context: kind, title, line, each fact, Open ## States - before typing, searching, results, filtered, nothing matching, opened - phone: the context under the results - right to left: mirrored; plates, VINs and numbers keep their order - reduced motion: through the tokens ## Keyboard - Type in the search field; Up and Down move the highlight; Enter opens it; Tab reaches the kind filter, results and Open ## Motion Nothing runs at rest. ## Props | Prop | Type | Default | Description | | --- | --- | --- | --- | | `kinds` (required) | `{ id: string; label: string; }[]` | — | | | `search` (required) | `(q: string) => Promise<{ results: SearchResult[]; looksLike: string \| null; }>` | — | | | `onOpen` (required) | `(r: SearchResult) => void` | — | | | `defaultQuery` | `string` | — | | | `product` | `string` | — | | | `className` | `string` | — | Classes on the documented visual root; no override by default. | | `style` | `CSSProperties` | — | Inline styles on the documented visual root; no overrides by default. | | `ref` | `Ref` | — | Receives the documented native target or imperative handle; omitted by default. | ## Built from - [Avatar](https://beamline.io/components/avatar.md) - [Button](https://beamline.io/components/button.md) - [Input](https://beamline.io/components/input.md) - [Label](https://beamline.io/components/label.md) - [Segmented control](https://beamline.io/components/segmented-control.md) - [Select](https://beamline.io/components/select.md) - [Spinner](https://beamline.io/components/spinner.md) - [Text morph](https://beamline.io/components/text-morph.md) - [Tooltip](https://beamline.io/components/tooltip.md) ## Dependencies `lucide-react` ## Import ```tsx import { RecordSearch } from "@beamline/record-search"; ``` ## Get it Record search is part of Beamline UI. Install the parts you need in your React app as compiled packages or editable source. [Get Beamline](https://beamline.io/checkout?pack=complete) · [Connect your agent](https://beamline.io/connect) ## More in Shop - [Product editor](https://beamline.io/components/product-editor): A product being made in a shop's back office, every value read as text at rest. The variant grid, grouped by the first option, lists each combination… - [Category manager](https://beamline.io/components/category-manager): A shop's product categories, nested and ranked. Each category moves up, down or into another from its menu, and every move gets its own receipt (saving… - [Inventory item](https://beamline.io/components/inventory-item): One stock item in a shop's back office, apart from the variants that sell it (how many each uses per unit). Stock per location as stocked, reserved and… - [Plan comparison](https://beamline.io/components/plan-comparison): Plans side by side against every feature: prices that roll between monthly and yearly, the current and recommended plan marked, a header that stays in… - [Step form](https://beamline.io/components/step-form): The finished frame for any multi-step form you compose — onboarding, intake brief, questionnaire, booking, application: a wide card with progress, the… - [Orders admin](https://beamline.io/components/orders-admin): A shop's order desk: today's orders and revenue, quick filters for what needs doing (to fulfil, unpaid, returns), a virtualised orders grid, and the… - [Order detail](https://beamline.io/components/order-detail): One shop order with payment and fulfilment as two separate lanes. The header says where each stands (paid, partly paid, awaiting, refunded; not… - [Order board](https://beamline.io/components/order-board): A shop's orders as cards in its columns, on the shared kanban with drag and keyboard moves. Each card: number, estimate or work order, customer, vehicle… - [Order composer](https://beamline.io/components/order-composer): An order made inside a support ticket: products found by name, each variant with its stock drawn and said (in stock, none, oversold, not known) and the… - [Draft orders](https://beamline.io/components/draft-orders): A draft order made for a customer in a shop's back office that reads like the order it will become. The lines lead: each with its variant and SKU or… - [Order changes](https://beamline.io/components/order-changes): What happens to a shop order after it's placed. Edit: the order as it stands beside the requested version, each line marked new, changed (old → new… - [Special orders](https://beamline.io/components/special-orders): Customers' special orders as demand to buy for, per outlet: To order apart from Ordered; each product's demand, what is reserved, incoming and on order… - [Order history and fills](https://beamline.io/components/order-history): Every order the account placed and every fill it got, for a period: totals for volume, fees, fill rate and maker share; orders with their status and how… - [Order ledger](https://beamline.io/components/order-ledger): Purchase orders as money. Each order's spend is drawn against its approved total (paid, billed, pending, what is left, and any overrun past the end… - [Ticket orders](https://beamline.io/components/ticket-orders): A customer's orders inside a support ticket, each action's effect said before it's done: orders and drafts kept apart, a paid draft shown once as its… - [Return queue](https://beamline.io/components/return-queue): A queue of return cases. Search by return, order or customer, exactly (the default) or loosely; status tabs with counts, Requires attention first; a date… - [Return case](https://beamline.io/components/return-case): One return as one place where every act is its own. The return, its order (linked out) and the customer on three cards; the stage said on its tone. Items… - [Return request](https://beamline.io/components/return-request): Staff start a return from an order, and edit the reasons customers pick. New return: the order's lines as a checklist, each with its variant, price and… - [Purchase orders](https://beamline.io/components/purchase-orders): A salon's purchase orders, received: the orders down the side, the chosen one beside them. Each line still due reads as a strip of received, this… - [Print quote](https://beamline.io/components/print-quote): A print shop's quoting in three places. Quote: a group of garments that share one imprint and one quantity break, the group's pieces counted together and… - [Service estimate](https://beamline.io/components/service-estimate): An estimate for one vehicle. Services added from the catalogue (one not listed for this vehicle said on warning, fit unknown said); each with its lines… - [Job card](https://beamline.io/components/job-card): A technician's repair order, phone-first. The vehicle, the customer and when it's due in words (due at, due in, overdue by how long); an offline copy… - [Parts tracker](https://beamline.io/components/parts-tracker): Parts across a shop's work orders: each with its number, the order and vehicle, supplier, quantity and cost (not known said), and where it is: ordered… - [Visit board](https://beamline.io/components/visit-board): The staff board for a walk-in queue: visits move from waiting through called and serving to done today. Arrival (here or on the way), the place in the… Part of [Beamline UI: polished, editable React components and complete screens for custom applications](https://beamline.io/). [Build your own style from any look; tokens, fonts, radii, motion; not only colours](https://beamline.io/docs/customize).